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'When presidencies go wrong': Economist says Trump may fall into trap that will 'doom' him
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If the last few years have taught me anything, it's that what you do is not important as much as the narrative that you are able to spin.
As long as TV news networks, podcasters, news outlets, and Musk's Twitter exist, people who are too ignorant to understand they are being lied to, or too lazy to parse credible information, will stay in the dark and vote red in the next election as well.
Democracy doesn't work when the electorate is too illiterate to cast their vote justly. They'll just vote for the next clown who promises them the moon.
I don't have a solution.
Exactly.
I’ve had Republican friends send me articles, I read them, start the debate, only to realize they literally only read the headline.
I’ve found myself reading terribly written articles just so that I’m sure I don’t misunderstand anything being portrayed in the article. Sometimes spending an extra 20-30 additional minutes for fact checking.
Trying to have a subsequent conversation with them is like pissing in the wind.
I really enjoyed explaining to a friend that the headline about outlawing child genital mutilation was referring to circumcision.
...that was sarcasm.
—Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
Unfortunately, there seems to be an awful lot of ignorance out there today.
Well, if goods become even more expensive, and wages fail to improve or get worse, then people tend to notice that more than the spin.
Sure you have very loud passionate politically active people who are game for "their team" to win no matter what and will listen to anything to rationalize their position and reject anything that disagrees, but a lot of folks are just looking at their personal circumstance and deciding if they think it's bad or not and voting either to continue or change, without a whole lot of consideration of what either side says will work or why things are the way they are, they just know "keep it going" or "change it out".