Post AmxXAiHd1PbLmznAJs by xerge@mastodon.nl
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(DIR) Post #AmxXAgqeMEQXL2A6d6 by ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
2024-10-13T08:07:23Z
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One of the most extraordinary things, siting on the other side of the Atlantic, is how the US presidential contest can still be so close....Given Harris' actions (from releasing her medical records, to her performance in her one Presidential debate) and Trump's continued random prejudice, insane outbursts & policy suggestions, that there is so little space between their poll ratings just bemuses me...But then again, I gave up trying to understand America years ago.#USPol
(DIR) Post #AmxXAiHd1PbLmznAJs by xerge@mastodon.nl
2024-10-13T08:48:19Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 The people voting for Trump see him as one of their own, not despite of but because of who he is and how he acts, however frightening that may be. They don't care about competence or accomplishments. They want a president that thinks and acts like they do to represent them in Washington. Nothing else matters.
(DIR) Post #AmxXAjnvMp1sVRuTIW by xerge@mastodon.nl
2024-10-13T08:56:34Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 I think Trump has stumbled onto a communication strategy that no-one could have predicted would be as successful as it is. Basically saying the quiet bit out loud and consistently getting away with it (as he has for decades). Part of the success is that the voters he is addressing are the exact same people he has been scamming his whole life. He has gotten very good at manipulating this demographic group and understands them intuitively.
(DIR) Post #AmxXAkY0bTtOoNTH84 by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-10-13T09:23:15Z
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@xerge @ChrisMayLA6 I disagree partly. I agree with the fact that he speaks truth to power and he says what the common man cannot say, for fear of losing his job. This makes him "one of us" against the political class, that never had a real job in their lives and seem more worried about climate change and international relations than their own people.Getting away with it I disagree with. Mainstream media does its best to crucify him. They fact check him, ignore his opponents. The political
(DIR) Post #AmxXHrzvInFvwevIMi by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-10-13T09:24:34Z
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@xerge @ChrisMayLA6 class engages in lawfare and does everything they can to stop him. This makes him the ultimate underdog, and living proof that there is a super wealthy political class that looks down upon the people. Paradoxically Trump benefits enormously from all this, so the more the political class fights him, the more powerful he gets. The same thing happened in sweden with the sweden democrats. The more the poitical class fought them, the bigger they became. The more they were
(DIR) Post #AmxXRZDA0LwqZkjqwC by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-10-13T09:26:19Z
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@xerge @ChrisMayLA6 called racists, the more they were deplatformed and sued, the more they grew. What stopped them from growing? When the current center-right government invited them to the power and started to collaborate. Then they stopped growing, since they can no longer claim that the political class refuses to listen to them. Now they are open to the argument, "but you had power for 2 years..."So ignoring, lawfare, ridiculing, calling racist etc. just makes the opponent stronger.
(DIR) Post #AmxXUwOOH47DL6bGxU by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-10-13T09:26:56Z
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@xerge @ChrisMayLA6 The only thing that works is engaging and actually cooperating, because then the party cannot claim that they have a monopoly in truth, since their ideas have been tested.
(DIR) Post #AmxXg8aRHC7ELRZh5c by MaierAmsden@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T08:33:46Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 It's pretty simple - decades of hyperpartisan systematic radicalizing propaganda has 1/3 of the country living in an upside-down propaganda bubble. They reflexively dismiss all non-aligned media, academia, government... any potential source of objective fact that conflicts with the well-fluffed narrative that Democrats are America-hating Christian-hating commie traitors trying to destroy the country, and Republicans are God's/ The Founding Fathers' patriot defenders.
(DIR) Post #AmxXgA5fgYh10bC9PU by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-10-13T09:28:56Z
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@MaierAmsden @ChrisMayLA6 Dig deeper. This is a one sided statement. I believe the truth is more compled than that, and that the people who push away academia & co have good reasons for doing so. My thesis is that there's a political class that cares more about global warming and international relations, and that the common people feel unseen, and "crushed" under regulation and eco-laws that make their lives more expensive and difficult.
(DIR) Post #AmxXrhIUZ0mxBPgzA0 by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-10-13T09:31:03Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 I don't think it is strange at all. You have me as your own personal "experiment" to at least indicate why this is the case. The democrats (in my own opinion) are a party for the political class that looks down on the common people. Trump is seen as a "man of the people", since he says what everyone only can think. I think the fact that a billionaire is seen as a "man of the people" is the worst possible indication of how far democrats are from working class people and
(DIR) Post #AmxXsaNhlKde1VYQQC by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-10-13T09:31:13Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 businessmen.
(DIR) Post #AmxYTUlva3VJLCU4pc by ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
2024-10-13T09:37:52Z
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@h4890 Yes, I agree, that Trump's main appeal seems to be built on exactly that idea that he is a man of the people... what I find perplexing is how so many people are taken in by such a transparent falsehood...and yes, I agree the Democrats have played their hand badly over the years, but this is partly due to the manner in which the popular press in the US seems to have distorted their actions & record....But in the end, even when I used to visit the States a lot I still was perplexed
(DIR) Post #AmxpvMeN4MqRTqpAXI by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-10-13T12:53:24Z
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@ChrisMayLA6 Well, at least that seems to me to be a sign of health, that the media is distorting both parties, depending on the media house. ;)