The U.S. will mark the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection on Saturday, a milestone that will confer upon the reality-dwelling citizenry a grim reminder of the potency of propaganda and how quickly it can warp perception when introduced into the public square.
Just three years ago, most of the country watched with dismay and horror as a violent MAGA mob beat back authorities and stormed the country’s citadel of democracy. The Donald Trump-incited crush of disillusioned rioters, fueled by a stream of fantastical lies, believed that the 2020 election had been stolen by sinister forces working to undermine the democratic election.
Of course, not only was their belief flatly incorrect, but evidence later emerged indicating that it was Trump who, in fact, had tried to subvert democracy.
Facts, however, have little bearing on the sentiment inside the Republican Party, which has been fed a steady diet of lies and half-truths by Fox News and the rest of the sprawling right-wing media machine. To wit, the false notion that Joe Biden nefariously stole the 2020 election is now widely shared inside the GOP. A CNN poll conducted over the summer found that nearly 70% of Republicans believe Biden’s win was not legitimate, a number that has continued to tick up.
Only the rhetoric would be different, the policy outcomes would be the same. I have a lot of negative emotions associated with having a bunch of soulless monsters pretending like they’re somehow advancing the cause of LGBT rights by dumping weapons on a genocidal apartheid government.
Again the bOtH sIdEs argument is really bad in this case, because you know, I don’t see one side removing rights of a sector of the population.
The hypocrisy here is the fact that many conservatives try to pass the blame 100% to the party in power even if the other party boycots them.
This sentence makes no sense, please do better.
The democrats are literally helping in the removal of rights of an entire fucking population what the fuck are you talking about.
Nah, they don’t. The republican party is the one who does that, just look at the abortion rights. You just don’t have to lie like that.
They’re literally deploying multiple aircraft carrier groups to keep Yemen from blockading Israel, demanding a ceasefire- and end to the genocide. Biden is the one keeping this genocide going, and like it or not, the people Israel is killing are losing their human rights- all of them.
Democrats are cutting a deal with the republicans to give them what they want on the border so they can get more weapons to Israel faster. I don’t see how these aren’t just two right wing parties.
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The status quo is literally continuing to support genocide as normal. The republicans are also disgusting war criminals, however they’re not pretending to be on my side and trying to guilt me into supporting them.
Why should I ever support democrats if literally supporting a genocide is a political football to them.
If this is going to happen regardless of if the republicans or democrats win, why the fuck are we pretending this is a democracy. If we can’t democratically decide to stop helping the fucking genocide it stands to reason that the ‘democracy’ is worthless.
That is true but the republicans won’t do any better. Dontry to say that rhey will fix that, they are more pro war.
Because at least one side is trying but the conservatives are war mongers
Democrats are also warmongers, they just are more careful about how they phrase things, and to who.
grinning ear to ear and saying “hell yeah I’d do it again” while doing a warcrime vs going “aw shucks I’m so sorry but it’s just how things are” and doing a warcrame- the outcome is the same for the people on the receiving end.
I’m so sick of the team sports shit in politics, this is literally killing people