The problem with Democrats endless soul searching about what Trump's victory means is they never seem to give the proper weight to lying and propaganda works.
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It’s a street fight and they are elitists sitting in their ivory tower trying to intellectually define it while getting the crap beat out of them. It’s embarrassing to watch. The Dems need to start making stuff up like the GOP does. Like hey, DOGE is stopping your SS checks starting in April.
The American information sphere has been co-opted by greedy right-wing oligarchs. They've been working on it for three decades & succeeded. Liberal billionaires cure disease, fight climate, etc. while fascist billionaires buy media outlets to sell hatred, fear & division for profit & protection.
He lied about fixing inflation and somehow convinced people deporting immigrants would make their lives better. I’m not sure there’s any real lessons to be learned there that P.T. Barnum didn’t figure out a long time ago.
I’ve been saying this for months. Dems didn’t do anything wrong. Sure the campaign wasn’t perfect, but none are.
Republicans just lied, over and over and over. Trump won on lies. Every single thing he said was a lie. For the last 8 years. And republicans just lined up behind him
It’s such basic human psychology. And to be fair… it’s what we signed up for.. buyer beware, unregulated free market capitalism & the most valuable capital right now is information & attention/distraction.
Agreed. "Throw the bums out!" remains a driving force in American politics. It has ever been thus. And lying makes it easier to convince the flock that the other guys are always the bums.
I was telling someone how when Trump initially ran I thought he wasn't being serious because I remembered him as the WWE actor guy, and apparently other humans do not remember him like that and think his lying is a recent thing.
They are bad at messaging. They can’t sell their party. Trump has no guardrails and the rules don’t apply to him.
Take Al Franken for example. He made a joke before he was a politician and they made him resign -vs- a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter, liar and a con and he’s potus
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Then, they will accept that there was so much fraud they had no choice but to gut it. My family members will never admit they were wrong.
Republicans just lied, over and over and over. Trump won on lies. Every single thing he said was a lie. For the last 8 years. And republicans just lined up behind him
Take Al Franken for example. He made a joke before he was a politician and they made him resign -vs- a convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter, liar and a con and he’s potus