Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cant talk about things that actually matter, because trump and republicans are directly responsible for that.
So we have to inflame idiots by talking about stupid bullshit that no one cared about until they poured gasoline on it to make it a wedge issue in desperate attempt to salvage votes from the mess they’ve personally created.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sorry to reply to my own post…
but everything from the right (even back before the party flip, because it doesnt matter what the label was, they were still the same assholes) is nothing but culture war shit.
Segregation was a culture war. A culture war that they ultimately loss, and while its terrifying ramifications are far from over even today, they did admit defeat on it… Which is why leaders held secret meetings, of which there are recordings of, to figure out what the next hateful wedge issue would be… and they came upon abortion… and even they struggled with deciding on abortion, because literally no one gave a flat fuck about abortion outside the catholics, and they were mocked for caring about abortion.
But they decided Abortion was their best bet for the continuing culture war bullshit, so they went whole hog on it, and within a year ministers and priests and politicians and the whole propaganda machine churned into action and suddenly gave a fuck about abortion and declared it the great evil of our time
and that went on for 50+ years, until they started losing the battle on Abortion… and just like they did when they lost the battle on segregation, they had to come up with a new cultural wedge issue, because they cant argue on actual politics and records because their politics are as awful as their goddamn records… And what did they land on? Trans people. Who are the new desegregation, the new abortion. And just like every time previous, they want to inflame hate to trick gullible idiots into voting for them out of fear.
and trans people existing is such a weak fucking wedge issue, that they are trying to go back to segregations racist arguments, with trying to be oOoOoOo big spooky about black people existing, or spreading blatant lies about them eating all the dogs and birds, or that the brown people are here to rape our women and take our jobs, and all the other tired tropey bullshit.
Fear fear fear FEAR FEAR. Thats all it boils down to. Trying to convince sheltered idiots to fear what they havent experienced. to fear who they don’t know. to fear everything that is unknown.
Beacuse as long as people are drowning in adrenaline fueled fear, they’ll never stop to look around them and realize its all fucking bullshit and admit they’ve been duped and lied too.