• SoftTeeth@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Not to be mean but this is literally propaganda.

    People elect right wing leaders when they are afraid and uneducated. And Covid plus all the reverberating economic issues weve had since then made people scared.

    When we see a lot of these right wing leaders fail to do anything then we will flip flop back to leftists

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      16 hours ago

      When we see a lot of these right wing leaders fail to do anything then we will flip flop back to leftists

      Not if Democrats have anything to say about it. We’ll get milquetoast corpodems or republican fascists and there is no other choice. Yay.

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        15 hours ago

        And people will vote for them anyway because if their personal economy is bad they will vote out the incumbent.

        After 2016 and Republicans fucking everything up for 2 years they got recked in the midterms.

        The same will happen again.

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      11 hours ago

      That might be true. But the solution to that, is not ”move further to the left” or ”wait for the right to fuck up”. It’s then to help people not to be afraid, to educate them.

      I very much hope you’re right, but I’ve seen this trend for over 20 years in Sweden now. With basically zero indication it’s turning.

      Just getting worse.

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        5 hours ago

        You’re welcome to try to educate them, if you can manage to penetrate their egos.

        I’ve tried educating them, but it’s kind of hard when they already beleive fake bullshit and literally can’t be reasoned with because religious people don’t require reason to believe something.

        Religon shamed them into hating themselves and their neigbors, so I find shame to be a much more effective tool, even if they don’t manage to self reflect they’ll probably feel stupid and shut up like they were trained.