• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    What does Trump offer but fear? The illegals are coming to steal your jobs! Muslim terrorists! Dems are DESTROYING the economy!

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah, but it’s a new fear or a new spin on some old one every other week. Conservative media tries out a new panic pretty regularly to see what gets bites. The democrats have basically been on “Trump is our Hitler” for more or less eight years. At least, that’s what they say with their mouths, though not with their actions. It might have had a little more sticking power of they’d showed that they took at serious as they want us to, but as it stands, that car is pretty much out of gas.

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          20 hours ago

          What do you want from me, exactly? You just can’t keep people afraid of the same thing forever. People stopped paying attention to the terror threat level just three years after 9/11, which the entire country agreed was bad. That’s why their secret sauce is to keep rotating in new panics.

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            33 minutes ago

            I would like it if you acknowledged that Republicans are the root of the problem and not Democrats. Sure, the Dems have a lot of room to improve, but there is no comparison! Republicans are fucking insane!

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              24 minutes ago

              The root of what problem, exactly? Yes, republicans are insane, I hate everything about their entire platform and I hate that they’re in power. I want a real left party that will kick these stupid Nazis’ asses, which is why I’m not afraid of being critical of the democrats. Now’s the time. We’ve just been punched in the head and it’s time to decide how to proceed. Do we get our shit together and start swinging for the fences, or do we pout and blame the voters because we really deserved this win and they just didn’t understand that?