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we laugh, but this is just incredibly sad. everyone is succeptible to propaganda (even you) and sadly the richest people have used that fact, plus a decent chunk of cash, to manipulate the most succeptible, least educated, and least likely to encounter counter-propaganda of those into believing their lie.
does that forgive their crimes? fuck no. but it speaks to the deeply corrupt power of capital and white supremacy, how it is used to keep down the very base that claims to support it.
Our biggest problem is that we started fighting back 20 years too late.
Right wing radio has been polluting their minds for decades and calling us Satan lovers and baby killers, and all we did was watch the Daily Show and chuckle away at the "dumb people"
Well... Those dumb people, poisoned by decades of propaganda, came of voting age, have infected all levels of government and now we're standing here with a pikachu face.
We have a huge uphill battle and it's going to be very hard, particularly because progressives are so easily fractured. We put up these ridiculous Puritan tests that no person can survive and we keep losing ground while the right lines up lockstep behind their candidate no matter how revolting, because 20 years of propaganda has thought them that no matter how vile Trump is, Biden must be JUST AS vile as him and even worse on top of it.
i agree but 20 years is putting it mildly. Overman and HUAC was almost a century ago and McCarthyism has been well and alive since.
a systemic disease has a systemic root. i wouldn’t put the blame on any one generation of leftists when capitalist white supremacy spans dozens.