Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration?

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Because we do not live in a Democracy with regular election seasons.

We live in a fascist oligarchy, which must constantly beam propoganda into the minds of its citizens.

Trump basically never stopped campaigning during the entirety of the Biden term, nor even for his fist term… despite being the President

US political ad seasons are notorious for being … way too long, up to a year… compared to most functional demcracies, where this ad season is often several weeks, not several, or many months.

Trump ratcheted this lengthy American political ad season into just literally all the time.

Before him, a sitting President running ads… during the middle of their own term… I think its literally unprecedented. Sure they’d give addresses and speeches to the public in extraordinary situations… but not run what amount to campaign ads… just all the time.

This is the power of money and media in the digital age.

It truly now just is cult reaffirming propoganda, in the derogatory 1984/dictator sense of propoganda.

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