“'Your body, my choice!' 'Repeal the 19th amendment!' 'Get back in the kitchen!' These cries have been developed and amplified following the US election.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump kept his coalition together by stoking shared grievances. In this way, his presidential bid represented a type of inverted identity politics. He didn’t campaign on making life better for certain identity groups. He campaigned by mobilizing people against ones they loathe and fear."

~ Anna Gifty

#Democrats #Republicans #WorkingClass #race #gender #CultureWar #immigrants #misogyny #trans
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Trump ran on identity politics and won

He united voters around shared grievances, not plans to solve their problems.

(www.publicnotice.co)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The MAGA playbook will remain the same: dividing, conquering, and pitting one group against another. It’s a terrible way to run the country, but as Trump just demonstrated, it’s still an effective way to win elections."

#Democrats #Republicans #WorkingClass #race #gender #CultureWar #immigrants #misogyny #trans
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[peachfront@toot.community]

@wdlindsy

i don't even understand how they could have forgotten it

but obviously they did since

2024 played out the exact same way as 1968, demonize a good & decent if not well-spoken man as a killer & force him to drop out & surrender the incumbent advantage

then it's easy to install the corrupt racist grifter who openly lies & not very well, tricky dick's a f'n sweaty liar but it doesn't matter because racists hate truth & will happily lose any freedom to keep down those they hate

[peachfront@toot.community]

@wdlindsy

this!!!!

we will never win the white male bro vote because the white male bro vote hates women & always will

their holy books teach misogyny & our country literally gives their preachers of hate a tax exemption for doing so!

nothing changes while we cater to ancient lies abt how some (but always women) are inferior to others

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
Good article!

[stevefelten@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy Incels are incapable of a mutually acceptable relationship, so theocracy enforces “traditional” roles.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@stevefelten Institutionally, major world religions also tend to be in the hands of men, who claim unique prerogatives to interpret holy books and sacred symbols and control religious institutions. Religious institutions in that way become a bastion of male privilege even when their own teachings in key respects often challenge patriarchal ideas.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse I thought so, too — glad you found it worthwhile.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peachfront Well-stated. I very much agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peachfront Yes, I agree. I suspect they only pretend to have forgotten.

[caffeinatedbookdragon@nerdculture.de]

@wdlindsy

Sad that it's true. Finding and sowing division has always worked quicker and more effectively than finding common ground and finding our similarities.

George Carlin said it so often: keep the lower and middle classes fighting each other while the upper classes go laughing to the bank. Sucks that we're so good at dwelling on the negatives and stay in their camp while being wary of the positives.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CaffeinatedBookDragon Yes, you're very right. Economic elites have been very adroit about sowing seeds of social division, instilling fear, creating bogymen — all to enable them more effectively to pick all of our pockets.