The insane part here is the red party having ANY loyalty, support, or chance of winning. That is the psycho dystopian impossible part, and the rest is damage control choosing among lesser evils.
Discworld even mocks this. The recurring patriarch of Ankh Morpork is Havelock Vetinari. He’s kind of evil. But he’s nowhere NEAR as evil as some people who’d like to take his place, and actually wants some stability for the city. So he stays.
There are conspiracies about the deep state and everyone on lemmy says the donor class is what decides politics, but what I’ve personally seen is just massive amounts of money dumped into propaganda and mass media stories about how dems want everything bad and how everything Republicans do is good and common sense, and it works unbelievably well.
There resides roughly 20-30% of any population that are complete lunatics and/or miserable assholes. It’s the additional support above that and the enormous number of apathetic people that are scary.
The insane part here is the red party having ANY loyalty, support, or chance of winning. That is the psycho dystopian impossible part, and the rest is damage control choosing among lesser evils.
Discworld even mocks this. The recurring patriarch of Ankh Morpork is Havelock Vetinari. He’s kind of evil. But he’s nowhere NEAR as evil as some people who’d like to take his place, and actually wants some stability for the city. So he stays.
There are conspiracies about the deep state and everyone on lemmy says the donor class is what decides politics, but what I’ve personally seen is just massive amounts of money dumped into propaganda and mass media stories about how dems want everything bad and how everything Republicans do is good and common sense, and it works unbelievably well.
It’s not people just saying this by the way. There is empirical evidence the donor class decides politics.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracy
There resides roughly 20-30% of any population that are complete lunatics and/or miserable assholes. It’s the additional support above that and the enormous number of apathetic people that are scary.