Funny how that works when the media constantly craps on you. You know, actual media bias, not the lack of bootlicking Trump is always crying about.
i'm just gonna +1 particularly the last line here; the extent of republican media on the micro level is bonkers. rural radio..~
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I don't love media being positioned as the engine to the extent it's done here. I favor a bottom up view of politics, that elite opinion mirrors public opinion moreso than shapes it. In this case, I think there's real distrust as a consequence of different classes interacting with one another, but that aside, yeah, media shifts the Overton window.
Yeah, we're really far apart. I see nothing that would suggest Brown would've won by going social left. This is a state carried by Trump by a really healthy percentage.
Not a response to anything I just said.
Agree, I just don't think it can explain the whole of it. It could just as easily be said that Gen Z men moving Trump lost her it, or Latino men moving right, or just...men moving right generally.
There is no perfect system of governance, and I don’t think other countries in the West have reached any higher level than any other for the most part.
It really unfortunately is alllllll top down. A well established political science/psychology reality is how people develop voting preferences. Most people think:
Kinda. Reminder that Trump tried to get his followers to get the COVID vaccine after he got it in the lead up to the 2020 election and they booed him for it.
The thing about that last bit is that who they like, and consequently trust enough to represent their interests in matters they don't particularly understand, is... basically determined by moral authority, and of course the moral center of a population is something that is holistic and determined by much more than candidate A's policy.
I never denied that Bernie did not receive a majority of the vote, I stated that this was not because the American people are wildly in love with capitalism or because he technically doesn't have a D next to his name on the ballot despite it not having any practical difference, but because a generally hostile media landscape towards anti-capitalism in the U.S. Believe it or not, most media outlets are owned by capitalists, who probably (Just a wild guess
) don't like anti-capitalism, and therefore probably won't sign off on anti-capitalist coverage. But feel free to keep calling basic logic conspiracy theories.
I never denied that Bernie did not receive a majority of the vote, I stated that this was not because the American people are wildly in love with capitalism or because he technically doesn't have a D next to his name on the ballot despite it not having any practical difference, but because a generally hostile media landscape towards anti-capitalism in the U.S. Believe it or not, most media outlets are owned by capitalists, who probably (Just a wild guess
It's also worth noting that support for progressive policy out paces the number of self-identified progressives by your estimation. Support for government or corporate health care is tied, and a support for a double-digit minimum wage is an overwhelming majority.
