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Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)
1. In a rational republic
Thu Nov 26, 2020, 02:23 PM
Nov 2020

Trump would have gotten less than the 63 million votes he got in 2016.
What were the 73 million voting for, being lied to daily?

Karma13612

(4,544 posts)
2. Your title basically gave it away
Thu Nov 26, 2020, 02:49 PM
Nov 2020

We don’t have a rational rePUBLIC any more.

Sigh

Starts with education in the home, better news options, and better support of the 98% in this country.

Republicans are committed to suffocating all of that until the public is flatlined.

Nearly there.



ffr

(22,665 posts)
4. I'm hopeful for the day when news anchors don't preface Ds with
Thu Nov 26, 2020, 02:53 PM
Nov 2020

What do you say to your detractors that say, "--------." Instead start off with what do you say to your supporters...

calimary

(81,127 posts)
19. And that's the fundamental. Republicans DON'T want to help you.
Fri Nov 27, 2020, 10:33 AM
Nov 2020

And they don’t think they should have to.

Every man for himself. You’re on your own.

IGMFU: I Got Mine, F-U.

 

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)
5. Future focus
Thu Nov 26, 2020, 03:10 PM
Nov 2020

must be on voter registration among the young, the poor, POC and recent immigrants.The highly educated will always support us v. Trump. How any woman could vote for Trump baffles me. We lost votes being portrayed as the "party of another lockdown", hopefully the pandemic evaporates and those votes return.
If the Trump fascisti control 73 million votes and growing, we can't let up growing our own support.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,488 posts)
15. Agree, but I think we also need to diminish the public's attraction to the Rethug Party.
Thu Nov 26, 2020, 07:41 PM
Nov 2020

I've long felt a non-stop media program on public and social media to call out Republican lies and deceptions might slowly erode public confidence in the GOP. In general, citizens do not like liars or being lied to.

However, it would need to be a relentless, well-organized project because right-wing media is present 24/7 on talk radio, cable news and social media.

The lack of effective media counter-measures is the reason right-wing billionaires like Murdoch have been able to run roughshod with their propaganda for decades and brainwash around a third of our citizens.

KY

BobTheSubgenius

(11,560 posts)
14. Of the myriad things that I am and should be thankful for...
Thu Nov 26, 2020, 07:07 PM
Nov 2020

...Jeff Tiedrich is one of them. It doesn't matter that this isn't one of his witty and hilarious ones. It's more than enough for today.

sandensea

(21,604 posts)
16. Especially since 51 million was, apparently, smaller than 50 million
Thu Nov 26, 2020, 11:04 PM
Nov 2020

And the rest, as they say, is history.

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