It would be nice if my country could have two functional political parties. Right now we have one that thinks if it does something once a decade it is too radical and the other is eating horse dewormer.
We have a conservative party and a proto-fascist party.
The vast majority of Americans are neither.
Edit: probably not vast, but an easy majority
Nah, look at the numbers. Three quarters support for single payer.
Hell, when you explain "defund the police" it has overwhelming majority support even by conservatives.
Vast majority are very liberal, just too busy being buried by capitalism to vote.
I feel like a lot of progressive ideals lately are simply plagued but godawful marketing.
Great ideas that are given a verbal shorthand that is confusing, misleading, needlessly polarizing, easily demonized, or all of the above.
Pride, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, Defund the Police, Woke, Antiwork, and lots lots more...
How is anti-fascism bad marketing?
Anti-fascism is not. But how many rank-and-file Republicans even know that's what Antifa stands for? All they know is they're evil violent rioters because Fox News or Newsmax or whoever says so.
Two sides of the same coin, honestly.
Anti-"woke" means refusing to acknowledge the presence of systematic injustice.
"Law & Order" is the dogwhistle for cranking up the tangible effects of systematic injustice.
What would be fucking grand is if they tired of voting.
I'm hoping at least a significant number have since Trump has spent years now telling them that their votes didn't count anyway.
I'd be fine if they just would get over their lying, grifting, shit-slinging "leaders." Of course, while I'd like if there were "legitimate" conservative candidates, the truth is that I don't know what that would even look like. Eisenhower?
Yes, DeSantis schtick is getting old. It's not a real policy. Most people don't even have a clear view of what woke is even supposed to mean.
Even Trump doesn't care for it.
“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear ‘woke woke woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Donald Trump
When Donald Trump is the voice of treason, you know shit's gone way off the rails.
He went on to complain about woke shit at his very next speaking event. Don't give him even that much credit
... voice of treason...
Can't tell if typo or autocorrect.
Typo, but I'm not gonna fix it.
You mean some of them are starting to remember that people are just free to have their own opinions on things? Who could have seen it coming...
Problem with the outrage/fear machine is its not sustainable. The brain gets tired of it eventually, particularly when there's some cognitive dissonance down there somewhere.
Can you get tired of something you don't under and can't define, even though for it's pretty easy to understand and define for a normal person?
They're just getting tried of hearing DeSantis say it 800 times a minute. And he can't even define it.
Hate, anger and the church pulpit are the main things that drive a right wing voter.
The word may change, as it has many times in the past, but the emotion behind it will never be abandoned.
Yeah, there's absolutely nothing new about the war on "wokeness", they just swap out the names every now and then
The PC Mob
The radical left
Antifa
SJWs
Socialists
Communists
They all mean the same thing in this context, but they know that people tire of specifics quickly, so they keep changing labels. I guess this study means that they'll likely pick a new word for the boogeyman soon
It's not even the church pulpit. It's whatever shit they're spewing on YouTube, newsmax, OAN, truth social, etc.
Some "church" pulpits are helping spew that stuff, too. (Not all churches, and I'd go so far as to say not real churches. Political campaign theaters masquerading as religious institutions.)
For Republican candidates, no word has hijacked political discourse quite like “woke,” a term few can define but many have used to capture what they see as left-wing views on race, gender and sexuality that have strayed far beyond the norms of American society.
Easy to define:
Taryn Fenske, DeSantis’ Communications Director said “woke” was a “slang term for activism…progressive activism” and a general belief in systemic injustices in the country.
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/12/desantis-ron-woke-florida-officials/
Believe that there is inequality? You're part of the woke mob burning down cities and eating soup or whatever.
They're tired of the current entry on the "then they came for" list.
They want to move on to the next largest minority group they can demonize.
Never lose sight of the fact that you're supposed to direct your politicians to fight for your issues, and not the other way around.
They’ve run out of trigger words and myopic symbolism.
I don't think they're actually beginning to care about other people's opinions and beliefs, I think, I PRAY, they've begun to realize that campaigning on the idea you're going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on enforcing their beliefs isn't what you pay taxes for.
I beg of them to realize exactly how much these republican bastards waste their OWN money on useless crap instead of the schools, infestructure, and societal improvements they're meant to be spent on.
Wokeness has been made into a bigger issue than needed.
never forget whose making it such a big issue.
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