This election isn’t just about a set of policy preferences or issues where reasonable people can disagree. The facts are out there and the tragedy is that a large portion of the American electorate has been fooled, propagandized and manipulated. This is because the American people are for the most part politically unsophisticated and are easily manipulated to believe things that are not true.
Democracy, by design, is messy and the politically ill-informed have the same number of votes as the politically savvy and engaged. Contributing to the confusion is how the mainstream media’s unhealthy obsession with polling has created a type of tunnel vision and myopia where other lenses that would likely provide better insights for understanding have been mostly ignored.
As a rule, I have almost no use for “the vibes” to which many in the news media default. But I am presently enjoying immensely reading the more and more numerous public signals of a coming real collective nervous breakdowns by the snooty leftist elites:
"If Harris wins the election, we will be able to say, “Democracy prevailed and at least we have a further lease on the American experiment.” But if Trump wins, it will be clear that the U.S. is really moving toward an autocratic, cronyistic kleptocracy that will impoverish and weaken us as a nation. That will be bad news not just for four years but for some time to come. We saw in the first term a preview: chaos, incompetence, cronyism.
If Trump wins, I think he will mobilize the government to go after his political enemies. We will be moving swiftly toward a corrupt and autocratic political system. Trump is open to many forms of bribery, which will impact our foreign and trade policy. Right-wing media will be a propaganda arm of the government and some sectors of the media will fall in line, as they will want to curry favor and hold onto their sources. - Katherine Stewart- Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism."
"go after his political enemies......move swiftly toward a corrupt and autocratic political system? 'Do you hear yourself lady?!'
Then there's this guy.....
I feel the U.S. 2024 election is the most important thing in the world now. Trump becoming president would be like a severely lethal hurricane raging across the whole country continuously. With JD Vance around as a possible successor to Trump, this feels even more ominous.
I understand MAGA as a dangerous and lethal syndrome of “Authoritarian Violence Disorder”. An epidemic disease, infecting many through what I call “brain flaws.” It is not their fault. There are brain pathways for copying and following others, in the cortex, dopamine system, and pain centers to motivate conformity and violence. This is a movement of violence. Violence is a disease, and specifically, a contagious disease. The contagion and the moral disengagement it causes provokes cruelty and obedience.
Kamala Harris will work hard to reunite us. We can then all do what we can to reduce the divisions in this country. We must also hold people accountable for the crimes they committed, because of this disease, thought in service to Trump, as part of returning our society to a state of normalcy. We must also take on the challenges that disinformation presents to our mental and societal stability. - Dr. Gary Slutkin - Distinguished Epidemiologist
Been reading Mao, eh Doc?
Streams of lies are not just lies to be fact-checked, but an accelerant that impacts people’s brains, causing moral disengagement, allowing people to abandon their own decision-making and obey. This is what the left thrives on. It's what the media feed on.
