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Mary Jo Wilen's avatar

Their YouTube efforts are great. But can they counteract all the right wing podcasts that flood the airwaves of the US heartland and reinforce extremist conservative republican lies and propaganda?

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Jean Muller's avatar

Do you curse the darkness or light one candle? 🕯️

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ramona j's avatar

They can if people spread their words. As the duped Americans hopefully wake up and things get worse, it's my hope they will.

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Emma Hunter's avatar

Gotta start somewhere, gotta try. There has to be an available option.

Maybe once the MAGAts get screwed badly enough long enough, they could start to detach from propoganda. But that won't happen before the economy is well and truly screwed and they have no healthcare, pensions, or jobs. What they have is skyrocketing inflation and shortages as crops will be left rotting in the fields because there's no one to harvest, pack, ship food. The massive corporate dairies, feeder lots, and meat packing plants all rely on immigrants laborer.

But even it all that comes to pass, I don't see wholesale defections from MAGAts.

Grifter and corporate greed feasts on the greed of the masses. After things got better for a lot of these folks, they seemed to be emboldened and now entitled. They believe they can have it all - not able to reason that it's just the grifters telling them all they want to hear.

They've already been prepared to believe that the reason the economy is [pick a vulnerable group]. They're gonna want to believe so badly, most will continue to double down.

Why do I believe that? Because religion has been conditioning humans since birth to believe fairy tales and promises that rely on no empirical evidence or proof whatsoever. The God Gatekeepers of Santa Claus-like dieties have, for thousands of years, successfully conned humans for the course of their entire lifetimes to fork over $ / sacrifices as evidence of their faith.

What I hope is that strong blue state coalitions can soften the decline and maybe if they can hang together, they can develop their own regional economies. What I'm interested in is discovering a way to throttle down the flow of taxes from Blue states to DC that just prop up the Red states. Maybe that's where State's Rights can be flipped to the aid of Blue states. The Wild Card here is Climate Change.

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