Im becoming unsettled. Maybe a few memes total on first two pages. How could things go so bad? Where are the yester beans gone?
Im becoming unsettled. Maybe a few memes total on first two pages. How could things go so bad? Where are the yester beans gone?
I understand where you’re coming from, but the legitimate grievances of conservatives are not covered by the far right media. They’re alchemically transmogrified into immigrant hate, queer hate, poor hate.
Their legitimate grievances are largely the same as everyone. Wages haven’t kept up with the cost of living is the most basic. But instead of looking at the top of the hierarchy for answers, these media sources redirect that grievance at the bottom of the hierarchy. And conservatives are obsessed with hierarchy.
It is good to study enemy propaganda, but it’s hard to stomach. I wish more people could understand in the way you have.
And when we’ve tempered ourselves (I’m so not there yet!), we can calmly, rationally refute with truth in non-inflammatory language. We can try to use simpler terms and explain those not understood. I understand it’s not going to be easy, that’s why I’m working on temperance in small bites, first. Our media has inflamed and made reactionary all of us, to varying extents, because that supports the monied interests. It supports everyone’s interests to dial it back, take deep breaths and respond rather than react. Don’t think the Neo Duopoly is going to do that; they will counter it with even more inflammatory rhetoric.
I’m literally texting with my MAGA father in law as we speak. He is embarrassed by how Zelenskyy/Ukraine were treated yesterday. There is hope.
Yes there is. The formerly maga parent who put me out of their car twice and home once for criticizing the sitting president now sends me inflammatory memes making fun of him. I do not respond to them, except to occasionally ask them to pray for our president and leaders, since they retain religion. It’s true it is the punitive, hateful sort of religion, but the very few times I’ve responded to ask them to do so, I mention “pray for those who persecute you.”
We have a long and rocky row to hoe. We’d best get on with it.