I really think you and most of the media are missing the point that we were up against an incredibly ruthless and impenetrable right wing propaganda machine. No matter what the pro-democracy movement message was, it was wrapped in lies, distorted and broadcast out at 10,000 decibels.
The left simply doesn't have the same mechanism to get …
I really think you and most of the media are missing the point that we were up against an incredibly ruthless and impenetrable right wing propaganda machine. No matter what the pro-democracy movement message was, it was wrapped in lies, distorted and broadcast out at 10,000 decibels.
The left simply doesn't have the same mechanism to get our message out - if we did, we wouldn't be sitting in this place right now. We're too diverse, too diffused. Their message is on point and centralized.
It's not going to get better because Trump and his goons will bring the media to heel and neuter much of it - it will become part of the state propaganda machine and the rest of us will be left in the dark.
I now understand what Rachel Maddow meant when she said the only tool to use in the fight for democracy IS democracy. We very likely will not have free & fair elections for some time to come so we can't vote them out of office now. We've lost the courts & rule of law to a captured SCOTUS, who preemptively gave full immunity to the POTUS. Congress will rewrite some laws to solidify Republican's power and then they will be stripped of theirs and it will consolidate in the Executive Branch.
Every avenue I go down to try to thwart their efforts is met with one of these obstacles. I'm sure there are people smarter than me that might come up with better options but it starts with recognizing they own the sound system and control the message and we have well crafted speeches that no one listens to.
And that doesn't take into consideration at all the fact that some people simply prefer fascism to democracy - they DON'T believe in majority rule. We can put the outright racism, sexism and misogyny aside for now but it's not lost on me that in 2 out of 3 elections, he's only been able to beat women - not because they weren't qualified but because too many men and women in our country prefer the felon to the female.
We gots lots of problems but policy ain't the issue this time around.
The reason Democrats lose is that they refuse to ever look in the mirror and question themselves. It's always some nasty scheme manipulating people against them, or it is just the people themselves who are defective and evil. It could never, ever be their ideology, policies, and record in power that are to blame. Calling yourself "pro-democracy" after promoting the totalitarian COVID regime and government-imposed censorship of online platforms is either an exercise of delusion severe enough to require professional help, or pure Orwellian doublethink. I mean, North Korea calls itself "democratic" too, so I guess it's a common yarn, but still, the lack of self-awareness is astounding. Your post reminds me of "Baghdad Bob" from the Iraq War.
I really think you and most of the media are missing the point that we were up against an incredibly ruthless and impenetrable right wing propaganda machine. No matter what the pro-democracy movement message was, it was wrapped in lies, distorted and broadcast out at 10,000 decibels.
The left simply doesn't have the same mechanism to get our message out - if we did, we wouldn't be sitting in this place right now. We're too diverse, too diffused. Their message is on point and centralized.
It's not going to get better because Trump and his goons will bring the media to heel and neuter much of it - it will become part of the state propaganda machine and the rest of us will be left in the dark.
I now understand what Rachel Maddow meant when she said the only tool to use in the fight for democracy IS democracy. We very likely will not have free & fair elections for some time to come so we can't vote them out of office now. We've lost the courts & rule of law to a captured SCOTUS, who preemptively gave full immunity to the POTUS. Congress will rewrite some laws to solidify Republican's power and then they will be stripped of theirs and it will consolidate in the Executive Branch.
Every avenue I go down to try to thwart their efforts is met with one of these obstacles. I'm sure there are people smarter than me that might come up with better options but it starts with recognizing they own the sound system and control the message and we have well crafted speeches that no one listens to.
And that doesn't take into consideration at all the fact that some people simply prefer fascism to democracy - they DON'T believe in majority rule. We can put the outright racism, sexism and misogyny aside for now but it's not lost on me that in 2 out of 3 elections, he's only been able to beat women - not because they weren't qualified but because too many men and women in our country prefer the felon to the female.
We gots lots of problems but policy ain't the issue this time around.
The reason Democrats lose is that they refuse to ever look in the mirror and question themselves. It's always some nasty scheme manipulating people against them, or it is just the people themselves who are defective and evil. It could never, ever be their ideology, policies, and record in power that are to blame. Calling yourself "pro-democracy" after promoting the totalitarian COVID regime and government-imposed censorship of online platforms is either an exercise of delusion severe enough to require professional help, or pure Orwellian doublethink. I mean, North Korea calls itself "democratic" too, so I guess it's a common yarn, but still, the lack of self-awareness is astounding. Your post reminds me of "Baghdad Bob" from the Iraq War.