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In reply to the discussion: Stop. Letting. Them. Frame. The. Fucking. Narrative. Don't let them gaslight you! [View all]Vesper
(229 posts)overwhelming odds. Also, that stuff that white men keep dismissing as "identity politics" plays a vital part in economic and security issues. We keep reminding them of this, but they seem to seek to silence us and brush our worries away because they know so much more about this than the women and the POC whose "identity" is something that renders them insecure on a daily basis and affects them economically in numerous ways.
What point does reminding people of facts do when they're fact averse, don't know history and are willfully ignorant? They won't even bother thinking, just echoing propaganda and attacking the DNC and the candidate. They went after all of these, but people believed the lies they were fed by the GOP, by Russia and fake "progressives" who were feeding them the same nonsense on the internet with fake websites.
They won 3 million more votes, despite it all, so this tactic of attacking the Dems while ignoring all the factors at play here and the reality about what was going on simply doesn't, it's facile, it's WRONG and it's bashing Dems while letting off the actual culprits here who poisoned the populace with propaganda, lies and venomous attacks.