• ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      57·
      28 days ago

      People keep asking why the race is so close. Decades of brainwashing from the right wing infosphere and a lack of push back from out institutions that are supposed to be bastions of democracy are two primary culprits.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        19·
        28 days ago

        Realizing how all these worms turn to appease an incoming and fascist government is mind boggling to me. Never thought it would have happened here.

        • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          25·
          28 days ago

          That’s the thing about fascism. It can happen anywhere because people aren’t inherently predisposed to any ideology. With enough brainwashing and propaganda over enough time anyone who doesn’t already know better can become a fascist.

          This didn’t happen overnight, fascism takes time to take root. In the US, neoliberalism has been pushing socialism out and letting fascism in for over forty years since Regan took office.

          • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
            7·
            28 days ago

            We definitely let communism and socialism turn into the new Nazism without much fuss. Most of the modern world is socialist to some extent but none of the George Orwellness the right would claim is a feature of socialism.

            • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
              10·
              28 days ago

              Exactly, socialism is an inclusive institution like majority rule democracy. We are headed to an Orwellian dystopia by prioritizing the freedoms of markets and corporations over people. Rather than state propaganda we got propaganda from billionaires. The effect was the same as 1984.

              The difference being, despite how flawed it is, we still live in a democracy for now. So we need to vote in record numbers for Kamala and Walz. The Republican strategy is to contest the election in every state, county, and polling place so we need to out vote the Republicans everywhere we can.

        • sp3ctr4l
          3·
          28 days ago

          If by ‘these worms’ you mean corporate interests such as all the bought out, dying remnants of traditional media…

          … Why would you not expect this?

          In basically every historical example of a growing fascist movement, big money sides with them.

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        11·
        27 days ago

        lack of push back from out institutions that are supposed to be bastions of democracy

        Yes, but have you considered there’s so much more money to be made on HORSE RACE?

        Why do you hate capitalism bro? Shouldn’t billionaires have the right to burn entire countries down if it makes them a few dollars richer?

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    28 days ago

    “Did __________ pull punches to appease Trump?”

    The blank can be filled in with the following:

    • The LA Times
    • Every other media outlet for the past 10 years
    • The entire Republican Party
    • Politicians in general
    • Our entire legal system

    Trump’s rise to power solely rests on the fact that everybody continues to play Trump’s games by Trump’s rules and wondering why they keep losing. -

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
      4·
      27 days ago

      Yep, any of us plebeians would be in jail for life if we pulled the shit he has. He’s a traitorous tyrannical shit stain on this country.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    4·
    28 days ago

    It’s shitty… but I get it. We already know the kind of petty craven asshole he is, hedging your bets in case he wins so he doesn’t shit all over you is a good play in theory. In practice he’ll still do it if you so much as hinted his shit didn’t smell like fresh strawberries, so why not go in guns blazing?