The RW propaganda machinery was driven mostly by RW oligarchs, not the R party. Plus, it's the sad truth that fearmongering, racism, and conspiracy sells. Truth does not. It's an uphill battle but it has to be fought or we're toast. There's no other way out. And yet we *still* have endless /1
about "the Message™". As I keep saying, we're trying to solve the wrong problem. Sure do the best with message content, but that's not the problem. No one's getting *any* message because there isn't nearly the bandwidth to compete with the RW propaganda machinery. It's gonna take a moonshot /2
Not just the D party, but we need folks like $$$$ who care about democracy to step up, and we need grassroots involvement. All of those things. /3
It’s the neo-fascist Christians in power who are implementing Project 2025 who are allowing America to fall. That they happen to be republicans is because they infiltrated that party.
They’re all members of a prosperity religion and taking advantage of Trump and his mental illnesses in order to implement their agendas. He’s fine with them as long as they pretend he’s a perfect president making perfect phone calls and he can continue to grift off his position and not have to work.
They are NOT Christians in the New Testament way. They are only pretending. They do not follow the words of Jesus Christ!
Yes, that’s right.
Yes, the Dems need a unified message with talking points put out daily for all D elected officials or candidates. That message that will sell now is strong gun safety regulations. The public supports them by a wide margin. Mock Rs as tools of the NRA.
I agree, but what I'm saying is that the Dems / left do not have the bandwidth or infrastructure to get their messages out to people such that they are heard above the RW propaganda machinery. The RW propaganda machine dominates the info wars. That's the root problem that has to be solved...somehow.
They don't just dominate, they own it outright. We ceded basically all media: legacy, digital, and public spaces to them. It's waaaaaay past time to build our own.
Gotta try though or we're toast - i.e. it's all over. That's why I call it a "moonshot" - it's a massive undertaking and it would take nearly a miracle to succeed. But the only other choice is that our country, our democracy, fails for good. Problem is we can't even get people to agree that this /1
is the root problem. There is just endless hand-wringing about TheMessage™. Whatever TheMessage™ is, no one's gonna hear it unless we start to find ways to blunt the RW propaganda machinery. /2
