YOU are speaking!
Have you made any poignant commentary on the recent election in the U.S.? Do you have a good response to liberals who are upset with the results or process of the election? Have you written or seen something as a comment reply/post that you think has standalone value? Did you see a new take or analysis you hadn’t previously considered?
Whether it’s a long idea with lots of context, or a short and sweet one liner, we want those thoughts aggregated here. This post is intended to be a resource for comrades to draw from when having actual discussions outside of Hexbear both online or IRL regarding the election.
Consider this a mini-effortpost aggregator. This is not for shitposts, but humor is completely acceptable if it helps make the point.
The problem is that there's no shortcut.
People have to be motivated to seek the truth, with the discipline to not fall for convenient scapegoats or going off on wild tangents in conspiracy-minded thinking, and that's especially hard if the truth does not align with the material interests of the seeker. You can introduce a frame of thinking that's distrustful of power, but if the person you introduce it to is not armed with the critical thinking necessary they will just fall into their own biases and come to the wrong conclusions.
You need to give actual material reasons for why a person should think for themselves on issues like "the economy" or "politics" and not just outsource all that to "the experts", be that Jake Tapper or Jordan Peterson, and then after that you might have to do the long hard work of teaching people how to follow the money (as CoolerOpposide put it)- which might require teaching the basics of Marxist theory.
That's the bad news. The good news is that once you overcome that (admittedly difficult) hurdle, media literacy is a skill that anyone can learn.