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Written by Matthew Sheffield on 2025-01-26 at 03:05

The most ignorant people supported Donald Trump last election.

That's extremely concerning, but it also is a cause for hope since these people were misled about Trump's extremism. A properly marketed left can defeat Trump's unpopular and extremist beliefs. https://www.dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/11/14/what-political-news-engagement-tells-us-about-donald-trumps-victory

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Written by libramoon on 2025-01-26 at 03:27

@mattsheffield

maybe our hope needs to be in actual education -- if the schools can't do it, maybe we need to create online fun ways to learn

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Written by Matthew Sheffield on 2025-01-26 at 03:35

@libramoon Yes. Schools can't do it all because many attend poor schools or are Christianist homeschooled. Plus, it's adults who are the problem.

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Written by Corb_The_Lesser on 2025-01-26 at 11:34

@mattsheffield There are votes to be picked up on the margins. That's important.

But the motivation for avoiding consumption of the news is much the same as the motivation for wanting to avoid the noise and argument of democracy, and it's linked to the notion that government is merely management and that political compromise is moral failure.

Hence, the compelling appeal of a strongman who takes care of everything and removes the unwelcome burden of choice.

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Written by Beeks on 2025-01-26 at 14:23

@mattsheffield hard disagree.

1. ignorance is made intentionally unavoidable in today's media landscape.

2. they've spent decades rigging the system in their favor to get to this point, they aren't handing it back just because they're unpopular.

3. defeating the GOP in an election wouldn't actually solve any of our many problems because they'd still be alive and in control of virtually everything else.

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Written by Matthew Sheffield on 2025-01-26 at 20:54

@Beeks Ignorance has always been commonplace. What's new is that a political party has decided to monetize it and use it as a basis of an electoral strategy.

Massive expenditures of money on marketing is the only way the left can have a chance of victory. I don't see any alternative. Do you?

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Written by Miss Gayle on 2025-01-26 at 21:05

@mattsheffield @Beeks

Democrats have to do town hall meetings at least twice a year for the next two years in every single red county & hand out materials that a 4th grader can understand about the goals & effects of project 2025 & how it harms everyone but the uber rich.

And they need to make schoolhouse rock style videos about it.

Highbrow policy discussions aren't going to cut it when the majority of Americans are functionally illiterate.

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Written by Beeks on 2025-01-26 at 21:38

@mattsheffield I see zero realistic victory outcomes that don't revolve around large scale violence.

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Written by Matthew Sheffield on 2025-01-26 at 22:08

@Beeks And that will never work if Trump is president.

The one violence wildcard is whether Luigi Mangione will inspire imitators the way that Dylann Roof did.

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