I still can’t get my mind around the election results; but there’s something that’s nagging at me: when I see shots of folks at Trump rallies, it looks to me like they believe, immediately and uncritically, everything he says. How can they not know that he’s a liar?
flex has a comment on Mano’s blog that lists some things that one of their coworkers has said, including “Trump was never convicted of any crime.” How can anyone not know that he was?
The only thing I can think of is that they get all their information from Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk (or worse). Is there anything we can do to get the truth out to these people? (I’m not doing jack shit by posting this on FtB. I’m “preaching to the choir” as they say; but I don’t know what else to do.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(American_TV_series)
(or, wishful thinking by uninformed people who think in slogans)
I think this gets at the crux of what I’m concluding about the election.
Lots of people are saying the Dems didn’t craft the right message, the Dems didn’t try to appeal to the right people, the Dems had a bad strategy, etc.
I suspect that it didn’t matter what the Dems did, because too many voters are vacuum-insulated from any messaging the Democratic Party could have put out through any medium. People tend to stick to their own bubbles more now than ever before, and those bubbles have become more polarized. The biggest bubbles are Twitter and right-wing podcasts. Democrats never had a chance.
I could be totally wrong, but that’s my guess based on the evidence I see.