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U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids (fortune.com)

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 days ago

Yes, the 2024 election was truly a vote for misinformation over any policy.

Fox and the right have spent decades pushing various "this is what America needs" narratives but they're a contradictory mess that neither matches reality nor is coherent. This about the manufacturing jobs is one. See also: states' rights (except when the right controls the federal government and blue states don't follow), cutting spending (except when we want to give tax cuts to billionaires), back-the-blue and law-and-order (except when we are staging an insurrection and deporting citizens), etc.

The reason this happens is because those narratives were always propaganda purely to win elections and create hate for the other side, and that is because they were always about gaining power for its own sake, not about a worldview or concrete goals.

2024 showed that delusion wins over facts. So now the right is living in a pure fantasy, made of construction paper and rotting cardboard facade that they demand we acknowledge as a sparkling utopia, and we're all stuck in it.