You're under the impression they give two shits about dissent when they control all the power structures to ensure their agenda goes on untouched. They don't even have to manage anything. They say what they want.
Media and Silicon Valley are incredibly strong arms and the propaganda wing of what are basically Marxists in government. They can say whatever they want, when they want without the need to worry about how they look when they say it.
GOP wants to look nice. They don't want to upset their bourgeoisie friends. They will never step out of line and say the things the normies are dying for them to say.
This is partially why Trump was fairly effective at bolstering the lower classes. He had no filter. He was uncontrollable. He said the nasty things the lower classes WANT to say. He wasn't terribly concerned with optics.
when they control all the power structures to ensure their agenda goes on untouched. They
You're under the impression I mean simply verbal dissent. I'm talking disobedience in general, pushback from the public.
Media and Silicon Valley are incredibly strong arms and the propaganda wing of what are basically Marxists in government. GOP wants to look nice. They don't want to upset their bourgeoisie friends.
Solid take.
This is partially why Trump was fairly effective at bolstering the lower classes. He had no filter. He was uncontrollable. He said the nasty things the lower classes WANT to say.
Partially. But I think a much bigger factor was the underdog appeal, entirely manufactured by CNN.
He wasn't terribly concerned with optics.
I disagree. He wanted to portray a moderate "strong man", precisely because he knew the leftwing half of the media would run with that label thinking it would play bad to his base, when it had the opposite impact, and bolstered him.
While optics is neither completely irrelevant, nor the be all end all, there ar a number of occasions he was highly focused on it.
"Repeal" -> "repeal and replace."
"We want LEGAL immigration."
Lots of "based black" leaders promoted by him, lots of pandering to minorities, instead of those of us who supported him.
Lots of compromise with the very swamp he rightfully claimed was full of absolute evil.
I could go on, but this isn't really meant to be a rant.
>You're under the impression I mean simply verbal dissent. I'm talking disobedience in general, pushback from the public.
I mean any and all dissent.
>Solid take.
Right on. Thanks.
>Partially. But I think a much bigger factor was the underdog appeal, entirely manufactured by CNN.
They certainly worked in tandem. That he was an unchecked mouth that couldn't be controlled can't be understated. The effects this had on the lower classes absolutely cannot be understated. Jonathan Bowden said that the best way to effect change is to get people in power that no longer care what the press or their fellow compatriots think or feel. You only need to get someone in power that says the things the lower classes think or say in the privacy of their own home. This would embolden people. It would railroad out of control after that. Which is good.
I'm not saying Trump is or was that guy, but it went a long way in showing the State and all its apparatus what even semi-populism and weak nationalism is capable of. They were terrified. You saw how they reacted to it. Now imagine someone with half of what I believe in there that doesn't care what the legacy media elite, Silicon Valley or the bourgeoisie thinks. You just have to have someone in there that doesn't give a fuck.
>I could go on, but this isn't really meant to be a rant.
I say rant on. Too many smoothbrains here that just want to post memes.
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