It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"No Dem can change the fact that millions of ungettable GOP votes are set in stone not because of economic conditions - which were the best any candidate could have hoped for - but because even relatively affluent voters have spent years marinating in complete craziness."

~ Tom Nichols

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/24

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1855065708033425451.html

[rlstone4dems@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy You’re absolutely right William. We deserve whatever we get… It’s just a pity that the consequences from making a bad decision, effects us all… Why couldn’t it just affect only those that were gullible, and naive enough to vote for this…

[roguedharmabum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@wdlindsy I'm not blaming anyone because I have no idea who to blame. The ground game was enormous and the volunteers put in the work

The only thing I can think of is that we pestered our base too much in the swing states and not enough in the blue states.

Imagine if someone asked you for something 20 times in a day. Wouldn't you be tempted not to do that thing out of spite?

We were sending people out so often that materials were still on the door from the last visit.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it. …

Trump warns of 'communist' takeover and amplifies the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory. His supporters rail against 'white genocide' and satanic child-molesting elites. Instead of opposing injustice, they vilify those who threaten social hierarchies like class, race and gender."

~ Richard Seymour

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/25

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/far-right-leaders-economy-voters

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy American journalism broke itself in service to fascism.

They don't get a pass anymore where we pretend they just couldn't help themselves.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Instead of confronting systems, they give you enemies you can kill. This is disaster nationalism. …

This is a global social contagion."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/26

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@gooba42 Yes, I agree. I doubt Charlie Sykes wants to give corporate journalism a pass.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@RogueDharmaBum I'm reserving blame for the Republican party.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@rlstone4dems Definitely a pity. But that's what social institutions are, aren't they — webs of affiliation, so that if you pluck one strand, all strands violate? We'll all suffer now due to the refusal of some of us to educate ourselves and face reality.

[pettet50@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy Slightly over 32% only of the country - 30% did not vote and the rest went to Dem and Ind.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@gooba42 Yes, that's right. And I'd say that at least one reason this has happened to us is that we've refused to listen to the testimony of minority communities who could offer us a realistic and at the same time hopeful perspective on our society and what ails it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lin11c Yes, sadly.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@KathyLK Yes, for sure.

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy I think we need to be more careful and precise in the language we use. Particularly now when the writing is probably of more use to some future archaeologist than to the traumatized and disempowered people reading it now.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@NMBA Thank you for making that point. I'd also say that I think younger people tend to get such information as reaches them via online video sites, and those seem to be rife with disinformation and right-wing memes, e.g., the ilk of Andrew Tate, who is so increasingly influential among younger males.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Dianora Well-stated. I agree.

[kathylk@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy @gooba42

Scott Dworkin is making it his mission to somehow to try to "take back" the media by supporting independent news organizations. I think the only way to do this is by avoiding corporate news organizations. (I hate to use the word "boycott," because apparently that's asking to be sued in Musk's America.) #journalists #journalism #media

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/time-for-us-to-take-back-the-news

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@chiraag I have long been critical of neoliberalism. I also think that it's a miscalculation to say that the choice of increasing numbers of people to swallow fascist ideas is entirely rooted in economic malaise.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@AeonCypher Left-leaning media are the problem.

I see. Thanks for informing me.

[mastopoet@h-net.social]

@wdlindsy @chiraag
why do you insist on calling it by the wrong name? neoliberalism is the conservative policy since the 1800s. look it up!