• @madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    202 months ago

    Our biggest problem is that we started fighting back 20 years too late.

    Right wing radio has been polluting their minds for decades and calling us Satan lovers and baby killers, and all we did was watch the Daily Show and chuckle away at the “dumb people”

    Well… Those dumb people, poisoned by decades of propaganda, came of voting age, have infected all levels of government and now we’re standing here with a pikachu face.

    We have a huge uphill battle and it’s going to be very hard, particularly because progressives are so easily fractured. We put up these ridiculous Puritan tests that no person can survive and we keep losing ground while the right lines up lockstep behind their candidate no matter how revolting, because 20 years of propaganda has thought them that no matter how vile Trump is, Biden must be JUST AS vile as him and even worse on top of it.

    • @spujb@lemmy.cafe
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      92 months ago

      i agree but 20 years is putting it mildly. Overman and HUAC was almost a century ago and McCarthyism has been well and alive since.

      a systemic disease has a systemic root. i wouldn’t put the blame on any one generation of leftists when capitalist white supremacy spans dozens.