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MAGA Is Based on Fear, Not Grounded in Reality (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Yet such fantasies are now the common currency of politics on the American right. Remember the days when pundits solemnly declared that Trumpism was caused by economic anxiety? Well, despite a booming economy, there’s still plenty of justified anxiety out there, reflecting many people’s real struggles: America is still a nation riddled with inequality, insecurity and injustice. But the anxiety driving MAGA isn’t driven by reality. It is, instead, driven by dystopian visions unrelated to real experience.

That is, at this point, Republican political strategy depends largely on frightening voters who are personally doing relatively well not just according to official statistics but also by their own accounts, by telling them that terrible things are happening to other people.

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

It's more that the NYT is studiously centrist and is getting to the point where it is OK for their left-of-center opinion writers to say this kind of thing

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

the NYT is studiously centrist

More center-right to right wing. Just like the DNC leadership and strategists with which they're joined at the hip.

[-] Masterblaster@kbin.social -2 points 9 months ago

it's BS for polite white NY society and it's garbage. give my grimy seattle anarchist zines, pls. oh wait, that got taken over by the trans movement focused on gender terms or some BS that has nothing to do with victory.

i remember when i believed in ppl.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's not like trans people matter and they are being seriously oppressed right now or anything, am I right?

Man... first it was the blacks, then it was the gays, now it's the trans? Who are we supposed to care about next? Poor people? This is BS that has nothing to do with victory!

[-] Masterblaster@kbin.social -2 points 9 months ago

ride that bandwagon to nowhere!

edit: look, i get it. it's another class of people conservatives hate and make their lives a living hell. well, guess what? they do that to all of us! get on the bus with the rest of us and let's make way towards changing it. i'm just sick of focusing on a narrow segment of the population and losing sight of the big picture.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

What 'bandwagon' would that be, the human rights bandwagon?

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