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Facts, but there were also women and people of color that voted for Trump
Any minority that supports trump will regret it eventually. White men are the missing piece
We still need to have that conversation, specifically the influence of the massive propaganda machine that control nearly half the media-watching eyeballs (viewership).
We've seen our own relatives get radicalized, to no end that serves the public (or their social relationships). So what do we do to counter this wealth fueled monster?
Ideally not elect Big Tech to power?
Ehh…
We've just shown in November that Americans can be made to elect a literal Hitler, knowing what he intends to do. And even though the Democrats made some mistakes, they did run a solid campaign. Their losses in the battleground states were by razor thin margins.
One factor is the giant far-right propaganda machine.
The other, as noted by the boring British economist guy (looking... Richard J. Murphy) is that too many people live in precarity for the status quo party (the neoliberal party in whatever country -- Democrats here in US, Labor in UK) to draw voters. Essentially, when you're going to starve under King Log, then King Heron starts looking good.
And we saw this in the elections near November 2024, far-right parties were advancing in the EU. They started going the other way after Trump and MAGA were in power in the US, mask-off and painting a ghastly picture of what a King Heron reign looks like.
The cure for the latter is to go way progressive (e.g. FDR's New Deal). In this case, go far more progressive than the likes of AOC or Bernie Sanders are offering (the rest of the Democratic party doesn't like them much).
But the cure for the former is unknown. Not known to me, anyway, and not discussed even on far left media (e.g. Breadtube) possibly because they don't have answers either. Mind control does work, even if it's not as beamy and instant as it is in sci-fi. And if we can't counter it, we'll have to discover through suffering and death why we don't use it. And that assumes we have time before one of the other imminent great filters proves unnavigable.
Nice day-old account.
Sorry for being a lemm.ee refugee