• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    You sound like you have a promising future as a GOP speech-writer! Assuming they still need speech-writers after the electorate is dumbed down further. At this point, just making monkey screeches for an hour might be enough to get the appropriate Pavlovian reaction from the GOP’s base.

    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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      16 days ago

      At this point, just making monkey screeches for an hour might be enough to get the appropriate Pavlovian reaction from the GOP’s base.

      What does that way about the DNC and the campaign they ran if you believe this is all it takes to win an election? This is akin to the fascist-originated propaganda that characterizes their enemies as both incredibly weak and incredibly strong at the same time.

      Apparently, screeching monkeys is all you need to convince people to vote for you, but the DNC couldn’t even accomplish that? They couldn’t even convince people that their leadership would be more beneficial than a bunch of fascists because all they gave us was empty rhetoric and the promise that they’d be just as harsh to the right-wing scapegoat-of-the-week as the right. Turns out that abandoning your base to appease a bunch of people that hate you is an excellent way to throw an election in favor of your opponent. Some of us learned this in 2016, but it sounds like there’s some ‘enlightened’ individuals out there that still haven’t learned this lesson even after it nearly happened again by a razor thin margin in 2020.