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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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[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

Ignoring the likelihood that you are trolling me at this point, and responding solely to the issues at hand:

you are entitled to your opinion, but so too can people down-vote and block you; but why not choose to educate yourself on these matters before speaking, rather than make others do that work for you? Seriously, you will find that others listen to what you say much more readily when you are very careful to ensure that they match only existing facts. Ignorance is no excuse, outside of the kiddie playground areas. Then again, I misspelled "by-by" (should have been "bye-bye"), so like, nobody's perfect or at least *I* am not:-P, though still there's something to this so I hope you will think about it.
some of his supporters are that way yes - but the only time stereotypically identifying the most extreme behavior out of an entire population and trying to pass it off as the "norm" works is in... well, politics. WE should hold ourselves to a higher standard than THEM though, no?
ofc he can't do half the stuff he promises - but neither can Trump, who is even older and even more rambling-er-est, and in a contest of lying wins hands-down. Ofc I can call Biden a poopie-head McButtFace (anytime I want! especially in my own head! you can't stop me, muwhahaha!:-P) but... why lower the discourse to that level? They both have their issues... though nowhere near equally. And some of those issues they have in common with one another, as with most politicians before and surely most after them as well.
I specifically said that I was not talking about January 6. I'll leave this to you to research - you shouldn't trust me anyway, so best to find out for yourself:-).

Oh well, my conscience is clear - I tried to help. Make of all this what you will ofc.

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