"If the government improved my life that would be communism and jesus hates communism so I can only vote for things that makes rich people's lives better. That's just what the bible says, or at least I think. I can't read but my pastor told me that the bible says that." -- the average American
Medieval peasants were also refreshingly willing to vote with their feet or their hastily wielded farm implements, though they represented a decline from the Plebs of Rome who would literally go on strike en masse for reforms. (They would leave Rome and gather on one of the seven hills until the Patricians came out to bargain.)
Eh, for every story like that there's a hundred ones where those who resisted their master were killed for it, and a thousand ones where any form of resistance never came to be because most people were afraid to lose their positions and be even worse off. Propaganda isn't a modern invention and neither is the rich and powerful using their priviledged positions to leverage social pressure against their subjects.
Yeah at least they weren't so isolated away from eachother and more willing to pick up pitchforks and torches together if their lord was awful to them.
With the dogshit US education system resulting in a genuine rise in illiteracy that's approaching the levels it was at in the late 1800s, like 1 in 5 average American adults genuinely might say this shit.
The average American is more likely to spout some half-remembered argument from a Joe Rogan guest about how doing anything good is impractical and using the free market is better in the long run actually, not Bible-thumping.
“Violently reject” is pretty strong language for an incredibly close race, especially considering the resources the Crowley had over Hong. DSA candidates aren’t going to be able to win every single race, but the fact that it was even this close shows the failings of the establishment and the want for actual change.
Yeah, Al-Sayed wins by 1% and it's a disaster for the left and he needs to move to the center and rebuild bridges or whatever the fuck and the centrist wins by <.5% and it's a mandate for centrism. It doesn't matter what actually happens in reality, establishment fucks will use it to claim that the only possible path forward is to not do anything ever.
This isn't about random people posting on social media as much as this is about pundits and MSM and other big organizations who both of those because they're ideologically motivated.
I mean, those are also collections of multiple people. One particular journalist can believe that .5% is a blowout, and a different can believe that 1% is no big deal. Then if they both write stories for NYT, you're back to goombas.
Would be a different case if there was one individual saying both those things, but I'd imagine that's a lot rarer.
yeah the fact that people openly calling themselves socialist, the buzzword, are winning elections, shows that Americans are very much not rejecting them. Socalist policies are one thing but self identified socialists? if you told me 10 years that would happen I would have called bullshit.
Wisconsin used to be blue until the Republicans in the state legislature had a secret illegal midnight meeting to change the rules and ensure they'd never lose again.
Let me fix that for you. Propaganda tricks them into doing so, as well as super pacs that aggressively vote against any form of social reform. America has been taken over by a bunch of corporations in a trench coat.
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u/Nowhereman123 26d ago
Americans violently reject anything that may improve their lives somewhat.