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I don't like memes like this because they are easily dismissed, since the left absolutely has problems, and it's not just "we want healthcare"
However, the truth is, for all the faults the left has, they pale in comparison to the right wing batshittery.
As an outsider I see another problem with most of the US political discussions here. You all say that the republicans are obviously worse, make memes about them to your dudes to laugh at them. Yet half of your country active voters are likely to vote for them, would probably be more if they weren't inherently apolitical.
This whole American political discourse seems more fit for /r/im14andimsmart because it's mostly shitting on your opponents despite the fact that after 12 of the 16 years(the whole generation) of the democrat presidents more people want to vote for the other party.
I find it weird how you guys just laugh and meme at that like it's non issue or just act as those people(hundreds of millions) are just stupid.
That they managed to convince so many people to completely vote against their own interests is a testament to the power of propaganda. And you don't have to be spiteful, stupid and/or uneducated to fall for propaganda, it helps a lot obviously, but there are still many progressive and/or smart people who fall for it as well.
The combination of spreading "alternate" facts through complicit mass media AND indifferent addictive social media is something that Goebbels could have only dreamt about.
To understand how people can become so misguided, I recommend reading or watching a few testimonies of people who lost a loved one to alternate fact rabbit holes. It's similar to losing a loved one to a cult, only now it's much more widespread than ever before. I did a quick search and found a testimony from an Irishman that is a good read: https://old.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/171w3kb/my_dad_is_falling_down_a_farright_rabbit_hole/
And for people who did not fall for "alternate" facts propaganda, to put all this history and background into words is not easy, so it's easier and especially quicker to call people who have joined the far right cult, stupid and hateful. The cultists are stupid because they have fallen for the lies, and they are spiteful/hateful because hate is a large part of the far right cult. The far right cultists might not always have been stupid and hateful, but they sure are now.