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In reply to the discussion: TX-35: Democrats Can't Let This Antisemitic Sex Therapist Win Her Runoff [View all]yardwork
(69,642 posts)It's a flavor of propaganda designed to tap into the emotions and feelings of progressive Boomers. Normally we are reliable Democratic voters so it makes sense that billionaires intent on taking over the world (the literal truth, unfortunately) would figure out ways to get our votes.
We're seeing a very strategic multi-pronged propaganda campaign aimed at various voting blocs in the U.S.:
- rural whites: Targeting began decades ago so they now hate and fear the "Demoncrat" Party. Easy to keep them fooled via right wing churches (who get their share of the take), hate radio, Fox News, and podcasters, websites, etc. Strategy: appeal to their racism, class resentment, xenophobia.
- progressive whites and Asians: Targeting began in early 2010s, catapulting off the 2008 crash, using Occupy and other youth-oriented movements to pull in disenchanted youth and progressives of all ages. Strategy: Increasingly focused on antisemitic feelings fueled by Israel's policies and actions. Builds on longtime skepticism of authority and institutions. Propaganda worked very well in 2024; handed the WH back to Trump.
I could go on. Latinos were targeted successfully in 2024.
The only voting bloc immune to the propaganda so far are Black voters, especially women. They're holding the front line of our democracy. Those ladies are literally saving our democracy and they're getting pretty sick and tired of the stupidity of the rest of us.