Didn't post this thread yesterday because it was a good day worth celebrating, but this has been at the back of my mind the entire time.
After 4 years of absolute failure, not delivering on any campaign promise, failing to aid in any disaster whether fire, hurricane, civil unrest, or pandemic, after an absolute endless stream of scandals, evidence of corruption, and speech after speech of unintelligible rambling the pyrite gilded reality TV con man still got 71,000,000 votes.
In theory if he had only been slightly more competent or anyone on his immediate team more competent he would have won.
The right thrives on disinformation designed to feed off fear. It has been their lifeblood from radio to Fox and has evolved into the conspiratorial zeitgeist that is the social media landscape.
It's still growing.
The left has been battling itself and getting in fights over which policies to push, which tweaks of wording will eek out that sliver of margin we need to win meanwhile the right's tried and true dogwhistle talking points imploded on the 2016 campaign trail to evolve into a raving personification of flat earth youtube videos. The right doesn't seem to have control of their own party anymore. It became self sustaining and they are along for the ride. Now, no matter who or what the left puts up the assumption is they are child penal gland eating communist dictators.
It's the same phenomenon as the growing anti-vax movement. Anti-intellectualism is on the rise and if we keep spending all our energy and fighting to decide which candidate is the most reasonable we will lose the war against anti-reason. To that end, how would you fight that fight? What organizations do you know that have a strategy here? What policy can cure the world of the cult of anti-intellectualism?
TL:RD said:
After 4 years of absolute failure, not delivering on any campaign promise, failing to aid in any disaster whether fire, hurricane, civil unrest, or pandemic, after an absolute endless stream of scandals, evidence of corruption, and speech after speech of unintelligible rambling the pyrite gilded reality TV con man still got 71,000,000 votes.
In theory if he had only been slightly more competent or anyone on his immediate team more competent he would have won.
The right thrives on disinformation designed to feed off fear. It has been their lifeblood from radio to Fox and has evolved into the conspiratorial zeitgeist that is the social media landscape.
It's still growing.
The left has been battling itself and getting in fights over which policies to push, which tweaks of wording will eek out that sliver of margin we need to win meanwhile the right's tried and true dogwhistle talking points imploded on the 2016 campaign trail to evolve into a raving personification of flat earth youtube videos. The right doesn't seem to have control of their own party anymore. It became self sustaining and they are along for the ride. Now, no matter who or what the left puts up the assumption is they are child penal gland eating communist dictators.
It's the same phenomenon as the growing anti-vax movement. Anti-intellectualism is on the rise and if we keep spending all our energy and fighting to decide which candidate is the most reasonable we will lose the war against anti-reason. To that end, how would you fight that fight? What organizations do you know that have a strategy here? What policy can cure the world of the cult of anti-intellectualism?
