Bumbling idiot Trump can do no wrong and competent, hard working Biden was constantly criticized

[Chasstev365]

AWOL Draft Dodger W Bush was a hero, while a two tours of duty volunteer, wounded purple heart recipient John Kerry a villian who was successfully swiftboated without any media push back.

Until Democrats admit this is the reality of the corporate media landscape and develop effective ways to combat the billionaire class controlling the narrative, every election will be a constant uphill battle no matter how badly Republicans are destroying the country.

I wish the Democratic Party would hire, young talented internet media experts to capture the youth vote and get them to actually turn out to vote. I would also love to see Leftwing Podcasters counter all the rightwing "brosphere" followers.

[Irish_Dem]

1. America's values have changed.

We assume Americans value hard work, competence, honesty, integrity.

The voting data tells this is not true.

One third value these things.
One third value dishonesty, crimes, hatred, racism.
One third don't give a damn.

So the problem is much bigger than just getting a better PR team for Dems.

[FakeNoose]

9. You forgot about the other one-third

... who refuse to vote for a minority candidate no matter how qualified they might be.

[IzzaNuDay]

42. let's clarify: (minority) woman candidate

US F’d up twice when it came for Hillary and VP Harris. However, US did manage to elect Pres. Obama twice and that got the Tea Party/MAGA in a bind.

[dlk]

49. My post was about gender

Not to discount or minimize race

[AZLD4Candidate]

11. One third wants to kill one third while the other third didn't care. Sound familiar?

And MAGAts that have rudimentary knowledge of history say it's linear and not cyclical.

[Irish_Dem]

12. The MAGAs/evil ones are killing Americans every day.

All the public shootings with military grade weapons.

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for American children.

No vaccines, no healthcare, closing hospitals.

So we are in a civil war with daily deaths.

No one cares enough to do anything about it.

[AZLD4Candidate]

23. That's because the masked singer is on or someone's getting kicked in the nuts on tiktok.

[Hey Joe]

30. Exactly!

Way too many Americans are guided and misinformed by an algorithm from their constant use of social media .
Way too many do not even know how to search for factual information or just don’t care to.
Confirmation bias is what they seek because it gives them the warm fuzzies and stokes their rage.

[Dave says]

33. It will be immensely difficult to pull back...

… from the quagmire we find ourselves in.

As far as major media coming to our aid, forget about that. The owners of major media will not allow that to happen.

You say we can pass laws that breakup media monopolies. Well, review Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent. It would be difficult back then (1981), impossible now. Institutional capture (by the oligarchy and their well paid agents in the major media, courts, Congress, and Presidential Administrations) make that a momentous task. Never mind that the rot descends all the way down to local governments, school boards, and the like.

You may say major media has lost its grip on the American mind, splintered by social media. So there’s hope. However, what we have now is splintered encampments that only listen to their own camps, to the ideas entrained in the brains of so many of us by 40-45 years of oligarchy.

There is no Walter Conkrite to our rescue (and if you’ve read the Chomsky reference, above, you understand that he, too, primarily championed the causes of the “establishment”). Nor is there a website (other than DU, of course) that speaks truth to power over a wide audience.

Honestly, I could rant on. I don’t know how we dig ourselves out of the mess we’re in. There was the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement, the anti war movement that helped bring about the end of the forever war in Vietnam. But my mind is not creative enough to see what’s next.

[Irish_Dem]

37. We are in US civil war II.

I don’t know how or if it will end

[Scrivener7]

2. Where is our bot farm!

They work! And it's cheaper than buying up all the media, and probably reaches more people anyway!

[EdmondDantes_]

3. What have media have you been looking at?

Looking at Politico, CNN, NBC News, and MSNOW all have negative stories about Trump featured prominently. The New Yorker Politics podcast the last couple of weeks has primarily been about being unprepared for Iran.

[Chasstev365]

4. Now, yes, but the man never should have been reelected and only was due to a biased media.

He got a pass on trying to overthrow the government and so much more, while one off night made Joe Biden a comatose imbecile.

Also, Harris was never good enough for the American media

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. I hear you.

But, it was not 'biased media' that refused to prosecute that orange gibbon or his cronies on January 7th, 2021.

[EdmondDantes_]

15. I think that's a hard argument to make quantitatively

The media coverage of Trump has historically been very negative. Maybe not as negative as we would like, but that's not their job.

[maxrandb]

8. The problem as I see it

is that the ONLY bipartisanship that exists in this country, is when the left and the right team up to attack the left.

You'll see it regarding the Epstein files, where anyone on the "left", no matter how innocuous their connection, will lose their positions (political, professional, or academic), while those on the "right" will hold their positions, even if there is video of them dancing with Epstein while oogling 12 year old girls.

Unlike Democrats, Retrumplicans are NEVER required, nor expected to hold their leaders accountable.

See Al Franken for example #127,543 of this phenomenon.

[Scrivener7]

24. That's not what most people under 40 are looking at.

[EdmondDantes_]

43. You think Trump is well regarded on Instagram, TikTok, and BlueSky?

And it's hard to blame platforms anyway. If you're talking about the red pill podcasts, that's not really traditional media and it's unfortunately driven by the audience of men who are looking for other people to blame. Not really like it's being pushed by anyone other than their audience.

[Scrivener7]

47. Are we using that? No, the red pill group has been systematically and intentionally pushed to where they are today.

It began with Cambridge Analytica using psyops to radicalize people through social media.

We are not doing and have not done anything to push people in the opposite direction.

We should.

In the grand scheme, a bot farm would be a good investment.

[catsudon]

5. the way president biden was betrayed

from all sides still left me with a bad taste in my mouth

[MustLoveBeagles]

22. I'll never forget

[3catwoman3]

41. Me, too. The party threw him away like a used Kleenex.

It was shameful.

[Lonestarblue]

7. The DNC had David Hogg but Martin was threatened and got rid of him.

We have too many people clinging to what worked in old elections. We are a long way from 2008, perhaps not in years but certainly in the social media landscape and the economic realities facing younger voters today. There seems to be little recognition of a new reality by the entrenched wing of the Party.

[Chasstev365]

10. Excellent points!

[LuvLoogie]

13. I'm sure James Carville has another decade in him.

[Historic NY]

14. Time to be ruthless, niceness isn't working

Exactly what Tim Walz was saying

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVtT5ccjcBp/]

[4bonhoffer]

16. Spot on!

Hopefully someone in the DNC monitors this site

[Wednesdays]

17. We can start right here.

I'd say the median age of DemocraticUnderground members is close to 60 or older. Is there a way we could attract a younger membership?

[MustLoveBeagles]

25. Excellent point

I'm 53 but I assume you mean GenZ

[CanonRay]

29. Change the name to Progressive Underground?

[Celerity]

46. No. It will not happen.

Is there a way we could attract a younger membership?

I have tried for 7 plus years to get people from my age cohort (I am now 29yo) involved here. Almost universally all who looked at the board said thanks but no thanks.

There is a deep current of hostility from some (not a huge number, but too many to ignore) here towards us young folk, plus a sometimes staggering (and only getting worse unfortunately as the rivers of time flow on) age-related cultural gap (which is a natural occurrence, unfortunately).

That all said, there are MANY wonderful older people here, they are deffo in the majority here, but the overall board thematics just are not going capture any significant numbers of younger people.

I will end with a positive. The number of blatant, outright youth-bash posts, which used to be legion, has decreased here as of late. For that I am very grateful.

[dlk]

18. The "brosphere" ignores the lived experience of the majority of the population

Namely, women.

[Chasstev365]

19. Yep!

[MustLoveBeagles]

26. Because they don't care

They see women as disposable. This doesn't mean all men. I appreciate our male allies.

[Chasstev365]

21. AOC and Bernie Sanders are "Radical Leftists."

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There views are in line with FDR, Truman, the Kennedys, LBJ and HHH.

THAT'S how far to the right we've been pushed.

[betsuni]

48. What is a "radical leftist"?

[MustLoveBeagles]

27. I see what you're saying

I think there's room for moderate & progressives.

[Demsrule86]

35. I kind of disagree...if by moderates you mean those Democrats who vote with the GOP

like Fetterman...than no. We need to fight for what is right...we need to move left as a party. The GOP will never work with us no matter how 'moderate' we are. Time for the next generation to step up...and if we want young vote for our Democratic party, we won't get in the way.

[MustLoveBeagles]

39. No I didn't mean Fetterman

He's a lost cause. I meant that moderates need to be receptive to the liberal wing of the party. I reread my original post and I seem to have conveid that pointed rather poorly.

[Demsrule86]

38. There will always be different viewpoints...but don't vote with the GOP if you are a Democrat!!!!

[OhioBlue]

32. I think it is shifting.

Just my anecdotal observance but I think the Dem base is moving left. It feels like the opposite because disaffected Rs switching to D get a lot of attention. But, I do think the WI supreme court race might have been a moment when Ds looked at the money Elon spent and figured out how to use it against the candidate.

[Demsrule86]

36. You are exactly right and the attacks of progressives need to end.

What has all this moderation gotten us? Schumer orchestrated a vote that killed the ACA and Democrats voted for it...if any of them are running again, we need to primary them.

[everyonematters]

28. Are we a fan club or a political party. We need to look to the future.

We need to be talking about how we are going to make a difference in people's lives.

[Mysterian]

31. The corporate media monopoly is an enemy of democracy

and must be destroyed.

https://www.freepress.net/who-owns-media

[Demsrule86]

34. If Democrats had had Biden's back...we could have weathered the debate...

Biden had Covid for God's sake...we need loyalty...it was to late for a new candidate. I love Kamala Harris and was proud to vote for her. But it was too late...reminded me of when Johnson was pushed out over the Vietnam war...and we lost. And the war went on for years...Nixon won two terms and then we had Watergate. We need to stand up for our members...consider Al Franken. I look forward to a move left and loyalty, loyalty loyalty.

[MustLoveBeagles]

40. What happened to Joe still makes me angry 😡

[3catwoman3]

44. I said upthread that the party threw him away...

...like a used Kleenex. I'm still pissed, too.

[Joinfortmill]

45. Yup. But, history will be kind to Joe. Gave his whole life to his country.