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The problem is the oligarchs own SCOTUS, the entire GOP and the entire MSM. Fascism is very profitable for them, and there is no way they're going to let your average American understand what is going on.

This is the solution to fascism. Don't let them reduce this to one idea only.

👋🏼 what he's doing is specifically manipulating mentally ill people. It's kind of like herding sheep. Propaganda works on smart people. My Nanna was born in Berlin in 1926. This is a mental health crisis - again. Manipulation of nondialectic thought is how you get a holocaust.

The only opposition for all this is gonna come from massive societal upheaval. They will be studying this if we all survive it.

It's the issue that will resonate most with voters who do not pay attention to politics or even the news, and there are a lot of them. It's not the only issue, but in my humble opinion, we need issues that target the uninformed and the economy impacts everyone.

Dumb as a post partisan voters who vote against their own interests every single time.

Economic insecurity was the euphemism in 2016 that really meant racist and idiotic voters that just wanted to be entertained by their blathering clown candidate.

AMEN!

The People have gone rotten:

Me too

Yes. When you hear Trump voters say that they will gladly pay $5 per gallon if it means Iran does not get a nuclear weapon, there is no salvaging those voters. They would never give a Dem that leeway. It’s the personality, not the principle.

Like, maybe we shouldn't have elected Trump? 😳😭😬

Candidates in the Primaries. I think they could do with better vetting. However, once you get to the general, it’s got to be either D or R. Ds are at least easier to be pushed, and better domestically.

Stupidity and Cluster B Personality Disorders, a measure America leads the league in, are the bigger issues. We are in structural decline as a result.

The remaining Trump voters are too dumb to understand anything more complex. The only smart ones left supporting Trump are the ones craving power and money. These are not winnable. The people tired of spending $100 per tank of gas are possible. And yes, we are whistling past the graveyard.

100%! And I would add there is some shit going down that we have no knowledge of / ain’t got no idea about. I can’t help but wake up every day with dread. Fauxking scary time. Democrats- I swear to God if you don’t remove that man from office as you VERY FIRST ACTION you are as evil as him 🍊

Anyone who pulled the lever for president dumpster fire — whether once or twice or especially thrice — who isn't now wondering, "What the hell was I thinking?" is either malignant, moronic or some toxic combination of the two.

I'm only slightly more worried about artificial intelligence than I am about organic stupidity.

Our problems include an electorate that is about 45% instinctive fascist who only vote Dem when the Rethugs have harmed them deeply enough to overcome their aversion to good government and desire for government to be used to harm the Other. Their selfishness has to overcome their need to be hateful

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Unresolved childhood trauma… that’s my guess as to what the root cause could be. That and glorifying narcissism, maybe?🤔

I agree…this is literally an existential crisis…like in a fight for the existence of our democracy and rule of law. Unfortunately, so many don’t understand what that actually means for them in their lives…they don’t care until they themselves feel the pain. So sad really.

The problem is that part of our country has become fascist. Our job is the same job we took on in the 1940's - to destroy fascism and dig it out by the roots to end it, this time in America. It will require tribunals. It will require punishment. It will require that we commit to it's eradication

Agree

I'll be dead before that so sounds good 🥱

I think economic talk stands in for most other political discourse in our country. Why people believe an economy is bad (immigrants, the super wealthy, regulations, deregulation, home prices, etc) tells you more about what motivates them.

A LOT of people think he's great. It's a CANCER.

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Ditto. They're not stupid people but they're gullible and full of misanthropy. One bro thinks Dems want Sharia law; Sister is rabidly pro forced-birth and other bro is pretty much a white "Christian" nationalist.

The question is: "why?" I think it all starts from ignorance, a prude in the ignorance and a hatred for the educated.

A mobster who has lucked into the biggest bustout in world history. We can hope that he's more concerned with living to enjoy his ill-gotten billions than he is taking literally everybody with him when it becomes clear he won't, but it's at best a 50/50 proposition.

Trump is a symptom of something very wrong

Dem challengers are running on corruption.

The problem is there’s an alarmingly large percentage of the country who will vote for literally anyone no matter how incompetent as long as they’re an outspoken white nationalist

77 million people voted for this admin after living through his mendacity, incompetence, and corruption of his first term. Today, they cheer him as if he were an entertainer and blame all others for the failures of government. America is not a serious country.

And Kushner is no elected official so this is BS anyway

They'll just think that he was doing great and then something unforeseen happened. And they will project onto how this could be Biden's fault. It will never occur to him that we had the whole world cooperating to keep Iran from getting nukes till Trump ripped that up because Obama.

Oh, I agree. I’m just thinking about a winning message. “He lied to you.” Sells better than “you chose poorly.”

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the Democratic party lost to a pedophile with a corruption history that would make Satan blush the DNC completely failed against Trump, and even enabled him. I don't blame voters at all. Fuck Clinton and Kamala for losing against the biggest fucking ghoul on the planet

a large part of US population simply *is* the stereotype as portrayed in non-US media, and it's not really something any president or administration can change within 4 years but making channels like fox news/newsmax/etc. actually abide by some set of moral standards would be a big step forward

Dude, there is a Russian puppet imposter deliberately destroying the country. Weakening the military to a clown show. Making Americans poorer. Took away Healthcare for millions. People die. All for Putin. Everything benefits Putin. Its is so obvious. Putins plan from 1987 coming to pass. #KGB

Agreed-- seems a shame that the opposition party is too busy fighting the 'real menace'-- Hasan Piker-- to notice such things...

huh

Sure but half of them just can't seem to figure out who to blame.

We are on a slip and slide straight to the abyss

My understanding of 2024 is that people thought Trump would bring more “affordability” than Harris. Now he has failed to deliver and they are turning on him. Am I missing something? They (the people who voted for him) only care about him being corrupt insofar as it costs them more money.

God is speaking to Aaron. Shhhh.

And yet we must. We have to find our way back together. Sorry to use the word (🙄🤭🤷) but we must be prudent in finding ways to communicate as a national community.

I'm convinced the root cause is racism. Sure, racists are stupid, but there are some smart racists who also support Trump

Don't discount selfishness and greed!

Stupidity and America's bottomless pit of bigotry. Its the 'easy' button of right wing politics and they will get voters no matter what they do because as long as they paint the other side as evil they can use any means no matter how unscrupulous to win.

There is a B in dumb. Just in case you weren't aware 🙄

STUIDITY is the very reason we're in this nightmare!!!! 😡

Hitler still had about 20% support of thr Germans near the end of the war even though their country was destroyed (based on post war surveys and best guesstimates). Cults are a thing.

2/ But “checks and balances” mean nothing if party loyalty means more than the Constitution, or whether you belong to the Senate, Supreme Court or House of Representatives.

Aaron, I’m surprised you don’t have ulcers!

Totally agree. If we hang our hats on only affordability issues, we will not come close to addressing the structural disaster that continues to unfold.

Posts like this discourage people who think voting is useless. They are part of the reason people just stay home. Journalists aren't supposed to drown hope. All the common person can do is vote, we have no control over how our politicians act or react.Hold the line.

But there's no evidence of a coordinated plan Where's the demo cratic version of project. 2025 Do they think it will simply be handed to them They have to put in the work to get results

if you have too many messages, you don’t have any. Herblock’s “multiple bad things advantage” applies to parties as well as individuals.

It’s just happens to be a tangible problem for the greased number of people without being a cultural 3rd rail.

Think of it like how racists see people of color. It’s not that they necessarily see them as bad people. They don’t see them as people at all. They might cheer on a black athlete or musician but they would never have them in their home. That’s how Fox has made them feel about anyone who isn’t MAGA.

Crack for people with anger that want an easy target to blame rather than actual figure out the real reasons for their problems.

One could say the Republicans are not the only ones letting Americans down.

Greed and corruption have a love child named Avarice. Dem pols that obey their leaders and consultants call this child “Affordability”. Vote out corruption, vote out greed!

He's still doing better on that than on his handling of the economy, the war, etc. per some poll I saw earlier today he was still in the 40's of approval on immigration and it went down from there for all other issues.

Same thing happed with eggs, that’s why he’s sitting in the Oval Office. No one cared about project 25. and yet it seems like where on page 520. We’re all just praying for a massive clot.

Sanity alone is a start. But sowing cognitive dissonance whenever the pressure is on has been his lifelong focus and since it's also a fascist tenet that's how he became their leader and spokesman. And the dementia just adds to it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Absolutely. Trump is revenge. Payback by old white Christians for having elected a black man POTUS.

Spot freaking on!!

Maybe as use for “AI” after all? Use T’s crazy talk but with some other visual character - and see how it is received

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If you have the ability to see the existential problems we face beyond affordability, consider yourself lucky. But yes, we remain teetering. Precipitously. I still have faith that when something truly breaks beyond recognition, the country will pounce on him.

It was not fascism to sentence Julius Sebastian Streicher in 1946

Dude I know this is happening because of the media. Right now they are debunking Trump's bs promises about the future of gas prices. I just watched the people behind him NOT clapping when they would have a year ago on a media channel.

Not just illiterate, but contemptuous of their neighbors & their kids. Americans chose to not have basic work/life benefits or healthcare b/c someone undeserving might get it. 13 states have paid family leave 8 have school meals 4 have U pre-k 3 have public option healthcare 46 have open carry.

Tide Pod challenge participants are voters now.

This still ignores the entities pumping billions of dollars into the system who clearly think they benefit from these conditions.

Also: a functionally illiterate media and a morally bankrupt electorate. So things aren’t looking great.

If you just watch CNN, ABC, NBC but there’s more media out there other than them and with video you get info direct out of the subjects mouth so the idea is get your info from many sources CSpan, ProPublica, PBS, AP and other media and always corroborate anything on social media with many sources

Politics are reduced to that bc a good portion of US citizens are too stupid to understand the ramifications of what is occurring & only care about $. 54% read at 6th gr level. 21% completely illiterate. The problems have been deeper for decades.They're just catching up & finally becoming visible.

They fear what they don’t understand

It all starts with Fox news. 35 years of mind poison.

Trump and Miller and Hegseth DEFINITELY do not care about normal Americans. Vance knows its fucked but he mainly sees it as a problem for his future campaign. But they are also incredibly incompetent.

Funny how the “economic anxiety” never ebbed under the successful Black president. He got them health care & it made ‘em even kkkrazier.

I don’t have any answers for what to do about that except we must vote in huge numbers for candidates that aren’t bought-off and believe that survival mode-ing citizens need healthcare too.

A lot of words to say MAGA.

The problem is 30-35% of Americans who hate democracy, POC, women, non-white immigrants and the LGBTQ community -- and they're willing to burn this country literally to ashes to ensure they continue to dominate.

It’s pretty pathetic that people only pay attention in very narrow circumstances.

Sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity is the main issue This country needs to rectify. 

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But it’s the only thing Americans vote on, their pocketbooks. Shameful.

We are neck deep in a strategy over half a century old at this point.

It’s not really intelligence, it’s education and being subjected to mass propaganda by the media.

Yes, I suspect the Epstein class is attempting to set up a world for oligarchs only, and the rest of us scrounge or die

Yes, affordability matters, but the truth is it’s no surprise Trump got reelected; he is hatred personified. If our republican survives his regime, the only way forward will be by holding him and his enablers accountable, and finally addressing the racism and other isms at the core of the US.

DEMS may know "Affordability" is absolutely the #1 issue that wins us veto-proof majorities in House & Senate. AND THAT IS THE ONLY GOAL in NOV. The other issues we face will be handled WHEN WE WIN. Prioritize messaging & KEEP IT SIMPLE - THAT is American politics. Like GOP: KISS ! #VoteDem🗳️