tequila4kapp said:
No, not exactly.
What else is a Socialist going to say?
D's did plenty of stuff purportedly to help the working class. 70% of people said the economy was bad and we are headed in the wrong direction. Official economic reports to the contrary, they didn't perceive the measures worked. It was time for a change.
If we change the question to be "undemocratic" and "beholden to their oligarchs" (instead of an economic class question), then yes, I agree with that. Going back to rigging the process for HRC vs Bern up through executing a coup against a sitting President, the D party is politically corrupt in a way that works against working class people.
Purportedly.
Is that like "reportedly"?
Or is it like "People are saying…"
And so therefore it IS.
Right? is that how that works?
-misinformation policeSecondly, "they didn't perceive the measures worked"
Maybe that's because "the media" constantly tells people (Fox) that the economy is not bad and that inflation is crushing, or contrarily, continues to ask people (CNN, even MSNBC) how they are feeling about inflation.
In summary, what we've (at least, I've) learned here in these Trump years (decade) is that people (voters) can be totally manipulated. They can be directed towards issues ("trans athletes is a scourge upon society") and their anxiety levels (fear) can be totally revved up.
Republicans have done a better job of that. I mean, what is more tangible to fear? A caravan of immigrants who don't look like you or speak your language and who are demonized as bringing drugs, diseases, are murderers, rapists, and thieves
OR
"Democracy"?
This is why I return to Nazi propaganda. They demonized "the others". It worked - until it didn't.
We'll see how this next era goes.
If it goes to sh:t, don't say we didn't say it would.