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In reply to the discussion: Who would have believed that millions could gobble up so much bullshit? [View all]gulliver
(13,205 posts)19. They don't know how to live in the world they think Dems want to create.
We can only overwhelm them at the polls or change our approach to be more persuasive or both. Those are things that are in our power. Changing their minds is something they have to do.
Right now, the only practical thing we can do is wipe out the Republican Party in the next and subsequent elections. Biden can become President and heal the damage caused by Trump. Then all Americans will see the pattern in "Dubya-Obama-Trump-Biden" hopefully. Very terrible Dubya, was succeeded by the excellent Obama, who was succeeded by the unthinkably terrible Trump, who was succeeded by excellent Biden...
Fox News and the Republican Party would need to explain why the data doesn't match the theories they've been selling their poor customers.
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Who would have believed that millions could gobble up so much bullshit? [View all]
Cyrano
Jul 2020
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1500 coordinated unchallenged radio stations, invisible to dems and city-dwelling media and
certainot
Jul 2020
#27
It's an old playbook, and it can't be denied that he knows it, cover to cover
A HERETIC I AM
Jul 2020
#10
+1, what anti terrorism agents do with ISIS recruits is to mock their logic with short quips ...
uponit7771
Jul 2020
#13
Well put, and I think that's been the real question at least since Bush v Gore.
0nirevets
Jul 2020
#31
A complex question worth of two Nobel prize. One shot is the symbiosis with faux news.
TrumpCleaner
Jul 2020
#37
YouTube comment: "Democrats are getting everything they want and it's still not enough"
Awsi Dooger
Jul 2020
#42