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"Swaying" doesn't happen abruptly in response to any one post, good or bad. It's a process and it takes time. A critical mass of people in the middle have show
by add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
"Swaying" doesn't happen abruptly in response to any one post, good or bad. It's a process and it takes time.
A critical mass of people in the middle have shown that they'll just get dragged by the Overton window wherever it goes. It does make a difference in the big picture whether bad policy is widely praised, mocked, or ignored.
- BugsJustFindMe 1y agoIt is a process, but this isn't an effective method. People have been mocking MAGA stuff since the beginning, the response from followers is universally one of either outright dismissal or just not caring. Look at where things are now. Look at how much the mocking has any beneficial effect at all on anything.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoIt's a passive process, there is no method. The zeitgeist is what it is. There's room for mockery, disgust, memes, cartoons, substantive analysis pieces, dispassionate think pieces. This is a comments section. Calling attention to emerging actual MAGA policy failure is not the same as calling attention to pussy-grabbing being poor character. Letting any of this become seen as normal/accepted is a non-starter. Even if things do continue to not change after this window of opportunity of bad results starting to emerge, there's room for things to get worse. Non-acceptance of his first term did result in his electoral loss.