@jon Except you're built on Google's Chromium, so anyone using your browser is further entrenching Google's monopoly in the browser wars. I get *why* you chose Chromium, but don't act like you're anti-big-tech when your browser does, in fact, further entrench Google's power.

@wdlindsy Look, I *want* the Dems to kick the GOP's butt because the GOP is a bunch of open fascists. But the strategy they've been using (they campaigned more with Liz Cheney than with *any other surrogate*) is failing. If you're not allowed to criticize your alliance when they keep fucking up, when *are* you allowed to criticize them?

Friends don't let friends lose to fascists.

@wdlindsy Again, I acknowledged that there is misinformation, absolutely! But the facts I just laid out are just that, facts. And refusing to address those things builds up resentment and anger. We can't just attribute everything to misinformation when there *is* real pain and anxiety.

Progressives and leftists have been screaming about this in the media for at least a decade (namely, the 2016 election cycle) and we've been ignored. Look how that turned out.

@wdlindsy I don't think it's productive to tell people their economic pain is imagined, though. Like, yes, there is disinformation, absolutely, and we have to combat that. But another part of it is that inflation rate decreasing doesn't mean things are any more affordable, esp if your wage hasn't kept up (but that was the Dem line). More jobs, yes, but lots of them are gig economy jobs w/no security. On and on.

Dems tend to sweep inconvenient facts under the rug.

@wdlindsy I agree that it's not the _only_ factor, but when something that is concretely hurting you is tied so deeply with an abstract concept like democracy, it really doesn't help.

@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?