Snowflakes. Groomers. Cucks.
For years the MAGA movement has approached politics the way a bully would approach a schoolyard, sparring with labels so nasty, they seemed expressly chosen to appeal to the kind of people who stuffed nerds in lockers in sixth grade. And for years Democrats, abiding by the mantra to go high, not low, have responded by trying to be the adults in the room: defending themselves with facts, with context, with earnest explanations that nobody remembers (if they defend themselves at all).
The problem is that taking the high road only works if politics is a sport played mainly by people who act like grown-ups, which it is not. And also: Facts and context don’t make for particularly sticky messaging.
Enter: Weird.
Over the past two weeks, as “Brat” and coconut memes have taken over the internet and Kamala Harris inches closer to Donald Trump in the polls, the Democrats have finally gone low, deploying a bit of verbal jujitsu so delightfully petty it might just work.
It is, in fact, bad to sell classified documents that you stash in your bathroom and jeopardize the safety of all Americans. It is, in fact, bad to rape people. It is, in fact, bad to ignore scientists during a global pandemic. It is, in fact, bad to raise taxes on the working class while cutting taxes for billionaires. It is, in fact, bad to be racist. It is, in fact, bad to pay illegal hush money bribes to protect a campaign. It is, in fact, bad to say that democracy will end after you gain power.
I could do this all day.
Wow, you are smart. Guess everyone who was going to vote for Trump isn’t now that you said he was bad!
Would you say that any of the things I listed are good? Or are you just going to not address facts and reality?
Turning a critique of an NYT article as being lazy and dumb (which it 100% is) into yet another instance of a neolib screaming “ORANGE MAN BAD AND THE DNC CANNOT FAIL ONLY BE FAILED!” on the internet isn’t helping your cause, no matter how bad he is. There are millions of voters who would maybe show up if promised something, who simply aren’t going to turn out to vote against Trump for being a rapist. That’s just the reality.
I asked a direct question and you refuse to answer it. Since you can clearly read, I am forced to assume that you know all of those things are bad but admitting it hurts your feelings so you instead rely on avoidance behavior instead of confronting reality.
Edit: I also didn’t say any of the things you claimed I did. You are just lying at this point. It’s pathetic.
God, you blue MAGAs and your ad-hominems… You people really make Lemmy a VERY unpleasant place.
Which of the things I listed is good?
Do you just not understand that you look crazy to everyone and it’s deeply off-putting, to the point where I’m certain a non-0 number of Lemmy users will refuse to vote dem just to not be associated with you people because you’re overtly just as crazy as the original flavor MAGAs?
Removed, civility.
Yep it sure is crazy to dislike rapists.
What looks crazy and disingenuous to me is how you can’t answer simple, direct questions. It makes it look strongly like you’re arguing in bad faith.