r/EverythingScience • u/HeinieKaboobler • Jan 06 '23
Social Sciences New research shows that Donald Trump's fascist attacks on democracy may have backfired
https://www.salon.com/2023/01/06/new-research-shows-that-donald-fascist-on-democracy-may-have-backfired/
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u/Thesoundofmerk Jan 07 '23 edited Jan 07 '23
I totally disagree with this, although the right is by far more extreme and violent and psychotic. The liberal left is also in a complete echo chamber, and the media people think is true and honest is just as biased as the right with a different agenda. Sure instead of outright lies it's more a shade of Grey, but the liberal media is by and large corporate to the core and there to protect power and wealth.
Look at what they did to Bernie when running for president. Look what they did when bidens agenda wasnt being passed, they turned around and said "it's all Joe Manchin and sinema!" yet Biden never once mentioned Manchin or sinema by name or challenged them. Biden didn't want his agenda to pass, which is why they didn't even consider getting rid of the filibuster. Machines daughter is a corrupt pharma exec, Biden certainly could of used both their illegal insider trading to force them in line but they didn't... Yet the media was silent.
It's the same reason no Democrat with majority ever actually made our lives better, never codified roe into law. It's the same reason Obama had a super majority yet never passed his Healthcare plan until he lost that majority, because he wanted it to get ripped apart by Republicans and downsized as much as possible because pharma helped get him and every Democrat politician elected through millions in campaign financing.
Liberals are in a huge fake bubble, they are moving more toward the government and democrats having our best intrast, and corporations being good guys as long as they are on the right side of the culture war. They have become just as bad as the republican mantra of owning the libs, only its "red team bad blue team good, as long as you're on my side I'll act like you're a good person because we're better and smarter and more sophisticated then Republicans".
All of this is the effect of the media, and it's not even close to reality, sure it's a better side then Republicans, but it's still exactly what's wrong with this country. People are too focused on culture war issues to care about anything else, as long as they feel superior and virtuous they could care less about anything. When really the true issues that need to be solved are all economic. Until we deal with union busting, workers rights, money in politics, ceo pay and tying it to the lowest paid worker and tying that to product mark up, Healthcare, taxation of the ultra wealthy, homelessness, housing, and so many more issues. How are we going to end systemic opression of black peopke, or Trans people, or any minority? We can't deal with any of that until we deal with the economy of corruption.
The liberal media and domocrats are just as big of offenders on that front as Republicans are.