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In reply to the discussion: And ANOTHER reason we Democrats lost and will continue to lose [View all]ancianita
(42,759 posts)"oh I love the undereducated" people. All the Democrats you see on MSNBC just happen to be smarter than the Republicans you see on Fox.
Both the 'real people' and their media feeds (or feed troughs) are the dupes of oligarchs, whose corporate media want them to stay that way. They're not 'real people.' -- they're people told that what lawyers and professors know is too damn hard for them, when it's fuckin' not. Media have their markets -- readers of both paper and digital media; and tv audiences that only have their attention directed onscreen, which promotes unthinking, lazy thinkers easily confused by what a reading person sees as common knowledge -- "real people" are taught to read and write, but most of them don't do it because they don't value it.
No country deserves to be prosperous on the backs of people fooled into thinking that education, reading, and thinking aren't important, just experience. And what's going to happen is going to happen TO them, not FOR them.
The day before the election trump says we're a "failing country full of crime and Democratic scummy enemy within people." The day after the election he says we're a "pot of gold."
Who do you think believes him? Real people? As Obama would say, "Come ON."
No. It's not ANOTHER reason we lost. You oversimplify -- like the "real people" that you think actually knew who/what they were voting for.