• Wytch@lemmy.zip
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    It takes a lot to get through to people. I don’t know how you raise kids and make ends meet on $9 an hour and also pay attention to politics. There are so many layers of systemic failure here that to blame each and every individual is only recognizing half the problem.

    I mean yeah we’re a wealthy nation and we’re lazy, ignorant, and complacent but we’re also overworked, underpaid, and victimized

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      It takes a lot to get through to people because most people have the attention span of a goldfish struggling for breath in a puddle on the floor next to the broken glass of their tiny fish tank.

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        They see the propaganda, they don’t have the time to dig any deeper than “Democrats are baby killers and Trump will create jobs”. The message was a lie, but short enough to get across.

        Democrats have terrible messaging, and aren’t even trying to hit some of these demographics. I’ve yet to see a good Spanish language mass media campaign. Some from NGOs, but none from the party.

        Texas would be blue if they could competently get out the Latino vote… Instead the white rural voters get to enact their terrible policies :_(

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          I knew the propaganda was working at least for their base when I saw them repeating along with Pence - “promises made, promises kept” and they even had a banner for it, LOL.

          To someone like me, it was like watching W stand in front of “Mission Accomplished” in the level of ridiculousness and brazen idiociy, but to the brainless monkeys in that crowd? Absolute truth.

          What promises were made and what were kept? I have no fucking idea what one of the base would have said in 2020 to that question.