How are Democrats going to compete when there is a social media incentive to lie about them and go viral on the left as well as the right?
Posted by doctorarmstrong
How are Democrats going to compete when there is a social media incentive to lie about them and go viral on the left as well as the right?
Posted by doctorarmstrong
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This isn’t just online influencers though. The Colbert bit with the “Try Doing Something” sign is a case in point.
Like maybe Democrats could have had 3 or 10 or 50 Al Greens. But it ultimately doesn’t matter. They have no – and I mean absolutely no – power in the government.
That’s due to voters, yet people are eating up narratives and endlessly talking about how Dems should be acting. I fear a combination of foreign astroturfing, self hating drama seekers, clickbaitism, and just general incompetence has completely overrun almost every media space.
Traditional media being replaced by algorithms has been a disaster.
This isn’t new but has revved up in the last 24 hours as a swing state Democrat in response to Trump’s speech said about Reagan she was glad it was him and not Trump in office during the 80s in relation to the Cold War. This is obvious to anyone a reference about Trump’s actions towards Ukraine and giving Russia everything they want (their own words). People have spun that as her saying Reagan was awesome and that Republicans would never say such a thing about past Democratic presidents to downplay today’s Democrats. Except of course they do all the time with JFK and Elon Musk literally hours before was talking about how great Bill Clinton was as if Clinton is dead.
My point is these lies go viral on the left so how can Dems even compete with lies on the right. It seems to me a big issue for the party is a lot of people think they only hold agency and anything bad is their fault and anything good is ignored.