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Republicans are really good at misinformation, they've convinced their entire base that all democrats are AOC and Bernie Sanders types and billionaire elites an

by antifa 2y ago

Republicans are really good at misinformation, they've convinced their entire base that all democrats are AOC and Bernie Sanders types and billionaire elites and there's a massive conspiracy to LGBT everything and open borders and remove Israel's right to self defense. Democrats are really bad at appealing to their base. During the election, they attempted to flank Trump from the right on several conservative talking points like immigration and the Israel-Palestine conflict, while promising their base mostly "fundamentally nothing will change" vibes. We're hoping this leads to the collapse of the democrat party into a new party (both parties currently represent billionaire elites), but I suppose the Democrat party can remain irrational longer than you can remain unrepresented.

mrguyorama 2y ago
The Democratic party has been slowly dying since Reagan almost entirely because of Fox News. It was apocryphally invented entirely to prevent another republican president from having to step down due to the unpopularity of their acts. Since then, America voted for the "TV personality" president in such a landslide that it killed all democrat power in the US. The democrats adopted the conservative's economic policy in response, and that got us Clinton, but Americans kept watching Fox News, and voted for a literal nepobaby for their new president, who immediately started at least one outright illegal war, which every republican who voted for him will insist was awful but also they can't vote for democrats because they are evil, and they mostly voted for him again in 2004! Everyone who said "Democrats want to trans our kids" got their information from right wing information sources, and they did it willingly and purposely, and EXCLUDED OR IGNORED any source that tried to carry the actual left wing message. What the hell counter-party to this system do you think could possibly rise out of the ashes? Any counter to the republicans has to contend with the same effect of a population that willingly and purposely opt in to a propaganda outlet? Fox News lost viewership after they said the 2020 election wasn't stolen! My brother, who agreed the 2020 election wasn't stolen, still spends his time in right wing information spheres and still votes for republicans. "For guns" he says, but no democrat has ever done anything to his guns and our supposedly liberal state enacted constitutional carry. He still wants to shoot all democrats. Hell, my most right wing uncle who consistently posts hateful anti-women memes on facebook (to the point that the rest of my conservative family members who mostly agree with "women are lesser" in practice still thought he was problematic!) insisted that he wished Trump would get the fuck off twitter. You can bet he reads all of trump's tweets. There is ample study that shows that people who vote republican will APPROVE of a progressive ideology right up until you tell them a democrat wants it.

by antifa 2y ago

mrguyorama 2y ago

The Democratic party has been slowly dying since Reagan almost entirely because of Fox News. It was apocryphally invented entirely to prevent another republican president from having to step down due to the unpopularity of their acts. Since then, America voted for the "TV personality" president in such a landslide that it killed all democrat power in the US. The democrats adopted the conservative's economic policy in response, and that got us Clinton, but Americans kept watching Fox News, and voted for a literal nepobaby for their new president, who immediately started at least one outright illegal war, which every republican who voted for him will insist was awful but also they can't vote for democrats because they are evil, and they mostly voted for him again in 2004! Everyone who said "Democrats want to trans our kids" got their information from right wing information sources, and they did it willingly and purposely, and EXCLUDED OR IGNORED any source that tried to carry the actual left wing message. What the hell counter-party to this system do you think could possibly rise out of the ashes? Any counter to the republicans has to contend with the same effect of a population that willingly and purposely opt in to a propaganda outlet? Fox News lost viewership after they said the 2020 election wasn't stolen! My brother, who agreed the 2020 election wasn't stolen, still spends his time in right wing information spheres and still votes for republicans. "For guns" he says, but no democrat has ever done anything to his guns and our supposedly liberal state enacted constitutional carry. He still wants to shoot all democrats. Hell, my most right wing uncle who consistently posts hateful anti-women memes on facebook (to the point that the rest of my conservative family members who mostly agree with "women are lesser" in practice still thought he was problematic!) insisted that he wished Trump would get the fuck off twitter. You can bet he reads all of trump's tweets. There is ample study that shows that people who vote republican will APPROVE of a progressive ideology right up until you tell them a democrat wants it.