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

The Wookie

I don't get these ... "It's all broken" ... laments. 68M people obviously feel that Trump & what he represents was the wrong direction. If we are profoundly unserious no one would have supported a message of hope, progress, and democracy. A vast number of us still see a better path despite broken journalism & algorithms that feed the darker side of the human psyche.

When Trump fails to deliver relief to the working class & causes a recession with tariffs opinions will shift.

William Lindsey :toad:

"This election was a CAT scan on the American people, and as difficult as it is to say, as hard as it is to name, what it revealed, at least in part, is a frightening affinity for a man of borderless corruption. Donald Trump is no longer an aberration; he is normative.”

~ Peter Wehner

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/22

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Trojan Duck

@wdlindsy You see? She almost gets it. 'Almost half the country,' she writes. Well, this certainly implies that the non-racists are in the majority. Where did all those folks go? Who can say? It's all such a big mystery why these people are too stupid to vote for us. Better double-down on the queer-bashing.

William Lindsey :toad:

@todwest Whatever you need to tell yourself.

William Lindsey :toad:

@NJWookie "68M people obviously feel that Trump & what he represents was the wrong direction."

But the rest of us chose to place all power in the hands of Trump and MAGA.

patrickco

@wdlindsy @SykesCharlie Algorithms of engagement and social media broke journalism a long time ago by sucking all the attention and all the money away from journalism. We moved from a healthy intellectual diet to junk food for our brains. Trump is a consequence not the cause of that.

Trojan Duck

@wdlindsy This is your response? Seriously? Well, why do you think nearly 10 million Democratic votes disappeared? It wasn't racism.

➴➴➴Æ🜔Ɲ.Ƈꭚ⍴𝔥єɼ👩🏻‍💻

@wdlindsy The Truth Decay this caused has infected everything. Left leaning media can't be trusted anymore either.

William Lindsey :toad:

@patrickleavy Someone doesn't want to see the point — you're right about that.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Dawilson999 Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Dianora Yes — an excellent point.

William Lindsey :toad:

@janggolan You're welcome. Thank you for the positive feedback at a time when unsavory trolls are crawling all over social media feds like mine.

ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

@wdlindsy I mean, part of this comes down, I think, to the failure of the neoliberal consensus to actually improve the lives of most people. Especially when people are told capitalism and democracy are intertwined (they really aren't, but that's the narrative), then feel the negative effects of capitalism, why wouldn't they reject democracy?

William Lindsey :toad:

@Rworld Sorry, but I'm not understanding your question.

William Lindsey :toad:

And sometimes I can even find myself agreeing with Bill Kristol:

"It wasn’t the Democratic party that nominated Trump three times. It wasn’t Democrats who shied away from the fight against Trump. It’s the Republican party that has deeply, catastrophically, perhaps decisively failed America this past decade."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/23

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/stop-handwringing-start-fighting

Dianora (Diane Bruce)

@wdlindsy It's only a 'marketplace of ideas' when all vendors have equal access to the market. And Billionaires have achieved a near monopoly on the 'marketplace of ideas'.

@wdlindsy
Many young people had 1984 and Animal Farm and other books removed from the school curricula, so they are more likely to fall for the golden lies of fascism. They also had the History channel glorify war and the nazi war machine, when previously war documentaries showed the horrors. The fascist warchmaker has been busy for a long time.

JustKathy

@wdlindsy

But the #GOP has succeeded for the wealthy, and those are the only ones who count in today's America.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/finally-the-elites-have-been-defeated-by-the-billionaires

Urzl

@wdlindsy We didn't miss it. We saw it and called it out, loudly and consistently for 60+ years.

For our trouble, we were marginalized, made fun of, called alarmist and abused both by the fascists and by the people who were ostensibly our allies.

Don't pretend this was a lack of awareness. America *wanted* this and stubbornly did everything to silence dissent, kill education and otherwise set the stage for fascists.

lin11c

@wdlindsy
A disgusting country that will end up destroying a lot of the world. But all countries are facing the same billionaire funded takeover. The mistake was ever allowing billionaires to exist. I guess the crumbs they got were too good.