A Boring Dystopia

The secret hidden in this article is that talking about the cost of living, cost of groceries, cost of gas resonates across party lines stronger than any culture war distractions. The way to bring down fascism is to simply talk about how expensive things are and why there is no help.

Ah, common clay of the new west

🤌Zohran Mamdani 🤌

Got the math wrong but the answer right.

These people would wholeheartedly believe 2+2=5 if the Party says it.

I've also heard of such a "conservative" calling for the nationalisation of Google in order to save it from socialism.

I mean.... Ill take all of this type of brain-dead I can get

Left and right shouldn't matter. Policy is what matters. Simple as

I'm surprised this misconception isn't more common. Conservatives constantly run on reducing the cost of living (despite doing the opposite), so someone actually vowing to do it with a plan in mind seems perfect for this lot

So the way to make them vote for socialists is to talk about costs. Looks like an easy win.

Clearly the education system is getting too much funding. Somebody cut this waste.

Republicans voting for Democrats because they don't watch Fox News and thought he was a super Republican? I hope I never runs into these weirdos.

This isnt surprising one bit. Those people are probably above the average Intelligence of Americans actually.

The idiots really do ruin the world dont they.

Yeah, for most people politics is like the winter Olympics. They genuinely have no idea what's going on unless it's repeated ad nauseam over and over again or it gets slipped into some other media they're consuming.

They're also terrible at spotting what's fake or untrue.

It was fine when during their evening tv watch they got commercial promos for the top evening news stories each ad break, but those days are gone.

I wonder how many thought they voted for this guy:

This is why both politicians and those who have a strong interest in politics need to chill with the jargon and labels.

People voted for Mamdani because they liked his ideas, his approach to things, not because he was a "socialist". Hell, most people, including me, aren't sure exactly what that means.

Not just American.

Have you seen the news of the Italian 4 year old girl who died from diphtheiria, a disease for which there has long been a vaccine (mandatory in Italy, even) and which hadn't been seen in that country for more than 3 decades due to vaccination, but her parents thought that vaccine gave autism to that kid's cousin so didn't got her vaccinated.

Curiously, the mentioned vaccinated cousin also got infected and survived.

A young child literally died because her parents were gullible braindead morons who (doubtless via Social Media) got fed the same shit that's fed to American braindead morons and actually believed that even though it originates from a country which is a postcard for Idiocracy.

Well, guess they did indeed made sure their child won't ever have autism ...

(All this shit makes me so fucking furious!)

I legitimately believe that a winning strategy for the left is reverse psychology.

Loudly announce being "socialist" and just promote bad, or even just existing ideas claiming "we can't let the Conservatives prevent us from x".

The run your real candidates on "anti socialist" platforms

It's anecdotal evidence. It's braindead to take this as a representation of conservatives.

It's the economy stupid. Trump won on the economy. Mamdani won on the economy.

Every time I read one of these I lose a little faith in humanity and that meme quote from that nutty Indian cultist plays in my head

This comes down to a lot of purposeful obsfucation of politics and terminology as well as subpar education in that matter.

Example, those people saying "The left" mean left of their view points and understand. But without clear definitions of their intent and meaning it becomes a pointless mire for discussion. You spend more time educating and getting clarification that you're not likely to ever make it to the discussion at hand.

A lot of what I and many USA citizens will have to do is just understand what different positions are, what certain terms mean. When they say "liberal" they mean a vague definition of "the left." Where as when I say it, I mean neo-liberals in particular which is a conservative ideology that still believes in Laissez-faire capitalism.

Everyone loves socialism, except for the word itself.

They sure found an interesting way to square Fox News propaganda with Mamdani's campaign promises.

How do these white trash bootlickers even manage to breathe propely with th3ir "heroes" toying them around like puppets?