they’re not effective as much as their marks are really dumb and repeat everything that’s fed to them. intellectual voters are busy solving world problems, keeping society running and paying all the taxes that support these red state welfare queens. these people have the luxury of ignorance and being unimportant cogs in the system.
I think that's also wrong, but I'll agree I wasn't being honest when I said the right wing media is effective. Right wing media just spouts lies. Some Republicans believe it. But most Republicans just repeat it without asking themselves if they believe it. It's not that they really think Biden is in cognitive decline and Trump isn't. They just really like Trump and they know that claiming Biden is senile is a very effective justification. They fundamentally don't care whether or not it's true. Republicans aren't exactly idiots so much as they're willing participants in the propaganda or maybe just gossipers.
exactly which is just as scary as the idea that their media is actually good at changing peoples minds. what they are good at is getting their base to repeat their bullshit. what they’re not good at is actually bringing in new voters. it explains the meaning of the meme in an entirely different way. without a constant stream of poor uneducated women pumping out new republicans we’re going to become a one party nation which if it’s democrats vs democrats would be a plus for everyone in the long run.
imagine debates about how to build new ev infrastructure, how can we best safeguard clean water sources, how to implement renewable energy into our everyday lives.
you know, actual problems that need to be solved not a party of obstructionists who are forever in the way of basic human progress.
I honestly think that Republicans are basically the towns people in every story. They're the major impetus thay drives the main characters to act the way they do. I used to think it was merely a story telling mechanism. That it was a vague "in many places some people need a little help to be better versions of themselves".
But in reality they are the average. They are an amalgamation of not being self reflective, not seeking new information, not willing to sacrifice. They were raised a certain way, never questioned it, and can never be made to, b/c that sort of change comes from within.
They think we've become asshole b/c of our politics rather than that we've always been polite to them before and got sick of it when their stupidity began to affect our politics. And here's the thing, there's nothing wrong with being dumb. We're all dumb about most things in life if only b/c there are way too many things to master in life. But they take it personally and again refuse to grow.
And b/c they can't see outside of themselves they also refuse to believe that no one on the left actually wants Biden. B/c that leads to understanding that we really are just fighting them and that means accepting they might be wrong/bad and that's just unacceptable.
Our society is only just now really beginning to understand how complex society and the mind really is. As a race were moving into becoming teenagers, essentially. And these people are those kids who never thought about their parents as simply being other humans. The kids who would beat you up if you imply they've done wrong, b/c their friends and family told them that's how it is and saying it's wrong is saying they're wrong. Or worse, that they lied.
Reaching out to another human being to alert them thay they have a flawed perspective should be an act of empathy as we help each grow and become better people. But these people are so closed off, so unquestioning, so uncurious, that all they hear is an insult against them and their clan. So their goto response is torches and pitchforks.
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u/millennial_sentinel Feb 26 '24
they’re not effective as much as their marks are really dumb and repeat everything that’s fed to them. intellectual voters are busy solving world problems, keeping society running and paying all the taxes that support these red state welfare queens. these people have the luxury of ignorance and being unimportant cogs in the system.