Touching upon the clip and ideas presented in reason 4 to me seem to be predominantly the largest motivator for the Key Shifts in the Electorate as well as dominance of the "alt-right pipeline". I enjoyed the video. One major thing I believe you to have unfortunately left out were the environments created out of covid. Stimulus to help the economy when the largest squeeze on it was not from the side of demand. My friend and I received all three stimulus and I can tell you we never should have gotten them (we had and many others I know just put it in savings which helps no one in the context of it being given by tax dollars). Good sentiments and aid was probably the right call, but the stimulus weren't very discretionary. Immunity from liability being granted to the likes of pfizer and moderna in addition to being paired with mandates from the government on a state and federal level to take the vaccines strongly helped breed distrust and enable conspiracy. Overall weak representation and messenging from the democratic media to correctly tackle the real world explanation of funding of Ukraine allowing right wing (and russian propaganda) platforms to control it. And to top it all off high rates of inflation from Q1 2021 all the way to 2024 all fueled anti-incumbency. It's easier to be less influenced by the perceived hardships committed 4+ years ago than the hardships felt within the past 3 years. I think democrats had a good chance, but running an incumbent was not the right call since that administration could never get it's messaging effective to the american people. Kamala endorsed to be the Candidate subverting primary vote, President Trump being granted immunity on top of what seemed to be filibustering his prosecution and Biden pardoning his son just makes it all feel like it's all one big club and we aren't in it. $2.5B being spent on 2024 campaigns alone churn my stomach. Who are the major donators hiding behind 501c4s? SUPER PACs working with 501c4 non-profits (and other methods of anonymous funding) have undermined our elections for years and will continue to do so until something is done about it. I mean due to shit like this a great example would be from a linked GOP PAC running a contradictory ad on Kamala running her as pro-israel in Michigan and pro-palenstine in Pennsylvania to present her as two-faced. Realistically how are the American people supposed to combat this propaganda. This is just one example but a perfect one to illustrate the distrust that really is beginning to seep deep within our people. So much money spent to divide us through ideology, race, sex, and lies.
Thanks for your insightful comment, I agree that we haven't really processed covid and the distrust that spawned, but for this video I just wanted to share the narrative that felt compelling to me and put it out there instead of letting it fizzle out in my head. But these are all topics I'd like to cover and discuss with people in the future. I don't really know how to combat the propaganda, but this is my effort in trying. I choose to be a delusional optimist. Thank you again for your thoughts and hope to see you in my comments in the future :)
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Touching upon the clip and ideas presented in reason 4 to me seem to be predominantly the largest motivator for the Key Shifts in the Electorate as well as dominance of the "alt-right pipeline". I enjoyed the video.
One major thing I believe you to have unfortunately left out were the environments created out of covid. Stimulus to help the economy when the largest squeeze on it was not from the side of demand. My friend and I received all three stimulus and I can tell you we never should have gotten them (we had and many others I know just put it in savings which helps no one in the context of it being given by tax dollars). Good sentiments and aid was probably the right call, but the stimulus weren't very discretionary. Immunity from liability being granted to the likes of pfizer and moderna in addition to being paired with mandates from the government on a state and federal level to take the vaccines strongly helped breed distrust and enable conspiracy. Overall weak representation and messenging from the democratic media to correctly tackle the real world explanation of funding of Ukraine allowing right wing (and russian propaganda) platforms to control it. And to top it all off high rates of inflation from Q1 2021 all the way to 2024 all fueled anti-incumbency.
It's easier to be less influenced by the perceived hardships committed 4+ years ago than the hardships felt within the past 3 years. I think democrats had a good chance, but running an incumbent was not the right call since that administration could never get it's messaging effective to the american people.
Kamala endorsed to be the Candidate subverting primary vote, President Trump being granted immunity on top of what seemed to be filibustering his prosecution and Biden pardoning his son just makes it all feel like it's all one big club and we aren't in it. $2.5B being spent on 2024 campaigns alone churn my stomach. Who are the major donators hiding behind 501c4s? SUPER PACs working with 501c4 non-profits (and other methods of anonymous funding) have undermined our elections for years and will continue to do so until something is done about it. I mean due to shit like this a great example would be from a linked GOP PAC running a contradictory ad on Kamala running her as pro-israel in Michigan and pro-palenstine in Pennsylvania to present her as two-faced. Realistically how are the American people supposed to combat this propaganda. This is just one example but a perfect one to illustrate the distrust that really is beginning to seep deep within our people. So much money spent to divide us through ideology, race, sex, and lies.
Thanks for your insightful comment, I agree that we haven't really processed covid and the distrust that spawned, but for this video I just wanted to share the narrative that felt compelling to me and put it out there instead of letting it fizzle out in my head. But these are all topics I'd like to cover and discuss with people in the future. I don't really know how to combat the propaganda, but this is my effort in trying. I choose to be a delusional optimist. Thank you again for your thoughts and hope to see you in my comments in the future :)
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