"There is really only one issue left in this race
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William Lindsey :toad:wrote last edited by [email protected]
"There is really only one issue left in this race:
Donald Trump. ...
Your vote may be driven by some other issue, but it is still a vote for or against Trump in his totality. If you say 'I’m voting for Trump because I’m mad about inflation,' I’m sorry — you may be mad about inflation, but if inflation makes you vote for fascism, it’s not about inflation anymore."
~ Paul Waldman
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/there-is-only-one-issue-left-in-this
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Somehow, it is apparently baked into this campaign that Trump is allowed to talk and act like a complete lunatic while Harris has to be perfect in every way. I don’t know the answer to the chicken-or-egg question — whether media coverage is leading public perception or vice versa — but the disparate treatment is glaring.
This week, it became simply ridiculous."
~ Eugene Robinson
#KamalaHarris #Trump #fascism
/2https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/24/harris-trump-cnn-town-hall/
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Chaoddityreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy news outlets are essentially forced to walk a tightrope with trump. Trump is an enabler of hyper-extremists. But. The movement he represents has been smearing all media but the most extremely far-right as "liberal". So. In order to try to maintain general credibility, they have to try to pretend trump is ... Normal.
Vs kamala, who is a perfectly normal well-adapted adult with fairly ordinary political reviews.
So theyre reporting them both as 'equals'.
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@wdlindsy I suspect that somewhere in this is different standards being expected of a woman vs a man. Trump can “get away with it” because he is a man and Harris can’t because she is a woman?
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@wdlindsy the mainstream media has abdicated the role of informing the public and holding others accountable for misinformation and disinformation. They are treating the candidates to different standards. The first acts of authoritarian government is dismantling democracy. Control the media & control the messaging to shape public opinion. Monopolies are bad for democracy, deregulation is bad for democracy. Remember the Great Republican Depression. Thats’s right REPUBLICAN.
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@wdlindsy The media want a horse race, especially with a photo finish. That's baked into their business model, so there's probably no point in trying to appeal to their better nature. If there's cause for optimism, it's that media that are trying to engineer a photo finish will be biased in favor of whoever they think is losing. If there's cause for pessimism, it's the elephant in the room. About 40% of the electorate is fascist.
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@wdlindsy It is either voting in favor of Democracy or ushering in a dictatorship with this orange putz at the head.
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@secoiqq Yes.
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@lori Yes.
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@drtuck Yes, you're right. I agree.
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@serendip1959 I think it would definitely be a mistake to factor misogyny out here — you're right to point to it.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Chaoddity last edited by
@chaoddity Yes, that sounds right to me — your analysis does.
