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Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demogogue
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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Well in my opinion, it doesn't really matter what words are used to call other people until whatever those words are are used with the purpose to separate one and qualify the other as superior. Hang on, I'm not about to tell you how to get to Sesame Street.
What you said is akin to tribalism, which isn't bad or good but is a normal human reaction everyone feels. id like to focus on the way tribalism can be and is currently being used against us to turn off our brains.
I'll start with the obvious bad actor here, FOX news. How do they paint us on the left? Lets see, we're all godless, overeducated, wine sippin, holier-than thou, out of touch DINKS. Oh and we're all gay space commies.
Now besides me who embodies every one of those, most lefties don't, right? It's done by FOX intentionally to divide us and create divisions instead of conversations between us folks working 40hrs a week.
We know FOX is doing it, but aren't the sources we watch doing the same? Isn't it likely, at least? The guy you had pop in your head when you said "working class", what did he look like?
Rough, right? Mean, uneducated (a nice stand-in for dumb), emotionally stunted, misogynist, etc.
Now , whether or not that's exactly what your lil trumpet looks like, why do you have a vision similar to mine?
What i mean is where did that image come from??
The news we watch, right? Where else would we? How else would we have the same basic picture in our heads? Could it be our news sources are painting this picture in our heads for us?
I believe most of the media we see is doing this trick. Most of the media, is owned by people who, if they were allowed to, would try and spread a point of view that benefits them. For us, they want you and me to blame the guys who are watching FOX, not the guys running FOX.
The thing that drives me the craziest about our species is we're actually pretty smart when we want to be, but we're also lazy and vain. Both FOX and MSNBC viewers are equals in vanity and laziness. Those failures are in my opinion what makes us so easy to manipulate, and what we must guard against most strongly because of that.
OK THIS WENT LONGER THAN I MEANT TO DO SO TLDR;
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I respond that it's more like we are all