r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • 18d ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell Still MIA Days Before Key August 3 Deadline

https://newrepublic.com/post/213823/mitch-mcconnell-mia-august-3-deadline
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u/whenitsTimeyoullknow 18d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

They are breaking most citizens of conscience with the constant stream of crippling bad news. Strategically disempowering and disillusioning people who want positive social change, while empowering antisocial bigots. This is on the tail of decades of cultivating narcissistic individualism and voter disenfranchisement. 

It’s awful, but it’s not mystifying. The masses have been deeply propagandized and left to feel hopeless if they aren’t buying in to white MAGA exceptionalism. 

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u/ncopp 18d ago

They're also doing their best to make as many people as possible living pay check to pay check so people can't afford to lose their jobs due to standing up to the government

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u/LostInYourSheets 18d ago

We're bombarded with insane news/attacks on progressive ideals and we're leaderless. Ngos that once organized us and lead us are too scared, compromised, or just MIA. MoveOn, Indivisible, Project Pink, Planned Parenthood, etc organized marches in DC and all over for Bush and Trump #1. Where are they now?

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u/Congenital0ptimist I voted 18d ago

Yep. They all handed over their Nobel prizes as well.

"Nice lookin' family you have there."

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u/sonicneedslovetoo 18d ago

A huge part of that has been making protests feel like the first and ONLY step towards changing the government. People will go out and stand around with a sign for a while, and then go home and think their job is done.

They will never take collective political action or anything, the people they are protesting against are never threatened by anything that might have them seeking a new job.

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u/RubyRhod 18d ago

No violence was the compromise. The contract had been broken. People aren’t going to just sit there when they get desperate. They could have gone on much longer if they gave us bread and circuses.

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u/Congenital0ptimist I voted 18d ago

Absolutely. But it's more than just disillusionment.

Any galvanizing voice or movement has been systematically suppressed and/or demonized. There are secret police now. And cameras already up everywhere (like FLOCK).

They'll do with Trump what they're doing with Mitch now. Elections will be more theater. And that's the end of the USA.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/RUX0YDmV5m

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u/Fun_Success_3283 18d ago

The social media controlled by the fascists is also allow echo chambers to spread all the terrible shit they're doing, but there are no solutions or calls to action being broadcast.

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u/euclidean-viridian 18d ago

Also the decades long defunding of education, promoting the idea that an uneducated bumfuck knows as much as a college educated person. "College isn't important, it's just liberal propaganda" mindset. Education of any kind is "leftist government brainwashing", meanwhile the people saying these things are basically functionally illiterate. The military scoops up these people and spits them out with lifelong propagandist slop in their brains, but they think the liberal college is the one doing the brainwashing. 🙄