Trump greift weiterhin Amerikaner an. Warum kommt er damit durch? Republikaner können das halbe Land ohne Konsequenzen beleidigen. Demokraten sagen einmal „beklagenswert“ und hören nie das Ende davon.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202046/media-forgives-trump-attacking-americans
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Because everything in this county is a double standard. To be fair trump talks shit about his own supporters, America, and the military constantly. It’s just simply okay when he does it because Trump supporters love him more than their own families.
Because we’ve lost the cold war. Now foreign influence is the enemy within and is our own government.
We arent gonna vote our way out of this one guys.
Because the right is acting in bad faith.
Stop expecting them to be reasonable people.
Democrats need to get used to “never hearing the end of it” and being fine with that. Don’t waste energy giving 💩 💩what criticism Trump supporters direct at you. Wear it like a badge of honor.
Hilary was right. She was so right.
I live in Canada and we have our own trump like behaviour up here and because of it I never believe a conservative when they say anything, wheather its a politician, supporter or talking point. Its always an empty talking point meant to rile up and divide. I just don’t listen to them. My neighbour is big on PP and all he does complain about everything. I just nod my head and go inside, its not worth the breath to reply. Every argument, discussion or „solution“ is in bad faith with these people and not enough people realize this. They dont care about you pointing out their hypocrisy, they don’t care about your witty and pithy replies or clapbacks, and its because they dont care about you, or anything really, just power and wealth.
Shifting baseline syndrome, but instead of ecology in the natural world, its the ecology of the political discourse
Right wing media and social-media. It’s non-stop propaganda/lies and it’s brain-washed/corrupted a large portion of the country. The obscenely-wealthy keep these nutters blaming everyone but the 1% who are robbing us all blind.
For once in my life, I’d love to see a prominent Democrat call-out the Republican portion of the country for its shitty standard of living. You name a quality of life measure – divorce rates, economic opportunity, maternal morbidity, educational access, income, children born out of wedlock, environmental protection – and it’s the same shithole Republican-dominated states at the bottom of the rankings. Meanwhile, not shockingly, the Democratically-dominated states consistently have the best quality of life.
I’d *love* for a Democrat to point this out and ask swing voters point-blank, without apologizing: who in their fucking right mind would look at this very clear pattern and go into the voting booth saying “gee, shucks, I want our country to be more like Alabama or Mississippi, hyuk hyuk!”
And they need to say it without backing down or apologizing; this is seen by voters as WEAK. Force this conversation. The numbers don’t lie: if you want shitty living conditions, you vote Republican.
Because this country is center right. We all know it. Republicans get more leeway with the American people by default.
It’s because, and I seriously mean this, they think they are just fundamentally superior human beings. They think that they’re God’s children and democrats are demons. They think everything they do is good but it’s what God would’ve wanted and everything we do is bad because God hates us
The term is diffusion of responsibility, a phenomenon where people feel less personal responsibility to act because they assume others will. This occurs because in a group, individuals believe that someone else is either responsible for taking action
Maybe it has to do with regime-friendly right wing oligarchs controlling the lions share of the media.
It all boils down to empathy. Trump supporters lack this emotion and are inherently selfish. It allows them to laugh at others pain and squeal like a gutted pig if they’re called a mean name. Cognitive dissonance is also a huge factor that allows Conservatives to dismiss fact-based arguments with whataboutism and other blatant deflections.
MAGA only cares about one thing: upsetting the libs. They will condone any behavior/rhetoric that insults and offends democrats. It’s just that simple.
They’re ruining their lives, and the lives of their children, to own the libs.
Bill Maher (I know a lot of you probably hate him) put it really well. Paraphrased, he pointed out that a Democrat might do something kinda bad. Then, later, a Republican does something similar, but *way* worse, and when Democrats criticize, Republicans say „but you guys did it first!“
It happens every. Single. Time. Any criticism of Trump is met with whataboutism, and although Democrats are hardly perfect and do some bad things sometimes, they’re rarely – if ever – on the same scale as what Trump is doing on a daily basis. Democrats have to be absolutely flawless, because if they aren’t, Republicans will use those mistakes to justify literally anything Trump does.
Because there is a general double standard for conservatives and everyone else, where conservatives can get away with almost anything and have to be treated with the utmost respect and deference, while at the same time they extend precisely none of that tolerance and grace to anyone else. It’s maddening.
Liberals really need to stop with the concession on „both sides.“
Calling them deplorable was correct. That’s not equivalent to the President’s decade of hate towards the left.
Welcome to fascism, a key part of this is base of support that buys into lies, alternative history and their own self-affirming reality, the sense of being the victims while they are the perpetrators of the crimes they call foul about. The sense of being the hero while all recognize them as the villain and chalking it up to a conspiracy against them and their righteous cause. No amount of opposition from anywhere in the world can address the cognitive dissonance, they need to come to the realization on their own and most don’t want to. Introspection would potentially cause a realization that they indeed are “the baddies”.
Because democrats didnt double down. Simple as that. Hillary should have said ‚Fuck yeah they are deplorable and anyone who says different can suck my fat cl**. Stop fucking your sisters and get in the basket you fat ret**** ‚.
Guarantee that would have gone over smoother than backing down from it and framing it as some kind of gaffe.
Endless propaganda on consolidated media
Come on, there’s no double-standard. That’s woke nonsense. Republicans would have been unconcerned, for example, if Obama had sent in the National Guard and assumed control of law enforcement in Texas.
See, the secret is hypocrisy, lying and the fact that their base has the memory of a goldfish.
Because 80% of all MSM is GOP run. Then all the foreign bots…
Read one Russian dystopian novel and it all makes sense.
Those who are vulnerable to propaganda believe that Russian tanks at their borders mean they are there to help them, so they welcome them. Same thing here. It doesn’t just happen abroad.
Because Hillary called them deplorables. They *think* Trump is 💩💩 on the people they hate, so it’s ok. The cognitive dissonance is real with them and the don’t realize he’s 💩💩 on his own supporters too.
Here’s my very dumb 2 cents about how the democrats need to move forward. Stop with the corporate nice speak and get real. Trump went low and took half the country with him, you can’t just speak to people from a high horse and assume theyll lift themselves up to meet you there. Sometimes to bring people up, you have to go down and get them. Speak brash and a language they’ve been used to and slowly move towards a better normalcy.
Meanness is a central element of conservatism and the right. It’s expected from them.
The left wants to help everyone, even the deplorables. So attacks that seem divisive or to „punch down“ are more significant. It’s incongruent with their outlook.
I remember pointing out George W Bush’s intellectual limitations always solicited more sympathy than ire because everyone knows he’s just not that bright. No one ever said Cheney was stupid.
The media plays games.
Go to fox and you’ll understand. Check out the comments.
Whoever told Walz and Harris to stop calling Republicans weird hopefully is out of a job. You can’t buy the kind of engagement that barb brought. Pair that with the righteous anger people felt with the death of the Healthcare CEO(everyone hates their healthcare and insurance) and you could build a coalition to take this country back and build it up.
Consequences are only for normal people.
“Rules for thee but not for me”- classic Nazi moves
They, as well as a lot of Americans, don’t see Democrats or anyone with a left leaning or who lives in a big city as Americans or even as people, especially given their diverse demographics. If you’re not a white Christian heterosexual who lives in a rural area or small town, you’re not considered part of the country.
Newson put it best: MAGA are assassins when it comes to weaponazing their grievances.
Because they’re a bunch of deplorables who use dirty tactics to win.
We will never break the cycle until we stop treating them like they’re acting in good faith. Their outrage is manufactured, their agenda is too unpopular to honestly say aloud, their leaders are evil, yet somehow we can’t get people to stop pretending like they’re doing anything but playing the dirtiest game they can.
These are not good people. They are bad people. And bad people do bad things with bad intentions. They lie. They cheat. They steal. They scam. And then they lie about all of it and pretend it was someone else’s fault.
Democracy runs on the assumption that the people elected to office are acting in good faith. There are guardrails to keep the bad faith actors from taking over, but here’s the thing – those guardrails aren’t to stop them from acting. They’re there to acting as flashing red warning signs that THIS PERSON DOESNT BELONG IN GOVERNMENT.
MAGA is a racist, pseudo-religious cult. That’s why. Everything is acceptable and justified in their own minds, when you peel it back to that layer. And the Republican Party is MAGA now. There is no room for other views
Because that’s how propaganda & bullying works.
Al Franken takes a mildly inappropriate picture. Gets forced to resign from office by his own party because republicans shamed them which basically amounted to, “don’t you say you’re better than this?”
Trump gets caught paying for sex with campaign funds and the right rationalizes it. They then seated 3 Supreme Court justices.
Because despite what the right loves to say about mainstream media, the most popular news is just an extension of the Republican party. They control the narrative and Democrats consistently drop the ball and fail to take control.
For conservatives, I dont think there’s much genuine outrage anymore. Its all performative. Moments like Clinton’s deplorable comment are less about the insult and more about an opportunity to attack. For the modern conservative movement, everything is simply a cudgel to beat the other side with. Most recently. the Charlie Kirk murder was less about the event itself and more about attacking liberal groups.
For the media, there’s a real asymmetry at work which damages the democratic party at every turn. Jon Stewart made this observation years ago, and I’ll paraphrase it here: most media has a bias toward shock value, while Fox/OANN/etc have a heavy conservative bias. The result is when a democratic politician says something slightly offensive, ALL the networks pounce because its an opportunity to enrage viewers. It keeps eyes glued to TV screens and ratings up.
Contrast that with conservative comments that are truly awful. Other media outlets might pick it up, but then Fox will scream about media bias and snowflake liberals, etc. It effectively silences criticism of conservatives.
How did George McFly get Biff Tannen to stop bullying him? He walked up and punched him in the face.
Someone on the left says „deplorables“ once.
The conservative hive mind and media machine hammer it into the ground non-stop.
Meanwhile, the left devolves into infighting over whether or not the person who even said „deplorables“ is considered „left“ or not. -.-
Trump and the Republicans are graded on a curve.
I don’t understand why the American people are willing to entertain such a double standard, but they do..
r/trumpsnussy
Because the right wing has a dedicated propaganda arm that does nothing but lie on their behalf.
End of story.