I remember reading a metaphor about the two parties responding to a flood.
The Republican party will send down a line of barbed wire to drowning victims. It will ultimately hurt those who take it and probably leave them worse off.
The Democratic party won't send down anything at all. And then they'll wonder why people decide to grab the barbed wire.
Whether they read theory or not, when people lose faith in the status quo, they radicalize. And they can either veer left or right depending on their pre-existing worldview and what they find in their search for a new explanation.
The GOP offers a radical right-wing explanation and solution, both fascist and objectively wrong.
The Democrats offer no message, other than the status quo is fine if you just clap for its life hard enough.
In the absence of any audible Left-wing messaging, and Right-wing broadcasting firing at full blast, people giving up on voting will drift Right by default.
I remember reading a metaphor about the two parties responding to a flood.
The Republican party will send down a line of barbed wire to drowning victims. It will ultimately hurt those who take it and probably leave them worse off.
The Democratic party won't send down anything at all. And then they'll wonder why people decide to grab the barbed wire.
Whether they read theory or not, when people lose faith in the status quo, they radicalize. And they can either veer left or right depending on their pre-existing worldview and what they find in their search for a new explanation.
The GOP offers a radical right-wing explanation and solution, both fascist and objectively wrong.
The Democrats offer no message, other than the status quo is fine if you just clap for its life hard enough.
In the absence of any audible Left-wing messaging, and Right-wing broadcasting firing at full blast, people giving up on voting will drift Right by default.
So what you're saying is that the DNC needs to pivot right to get the vote.
We gotta tell Biden to stop doing communism!
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Regan says “trickle down Economics “ which is just the rich pissing on the rest of us.
Democrats give us “nothing, and you’ll fucking be grateful “