• SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I think a lot of it is also “national mood”. The world is a bummer right now and people feel fed up. For a lot of voters, including sadly many on the left, “vibes” are more important than facts.

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      It’s less that things are a bummer now, but that we have no idea what “better” even looks like. Instead of schlepping to the office in a gas car we schlep in an electric car? Instead of going bankrupt buying a fancy chemo treatment we go bankrupt buying a fancy mRNA treatment? Instead of conflict in the middle east we’ll have conflict in the middle east? Is this what I have to look forward to for the rest of my entire life?

      One thing conservatives have an advantage on is vision. Everybody remembers the past. A lot of people remember it fondly. It’s easy to sell something like that. It’s why they use it to sell everything.

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        That’s why we call them out for the fiction they call the past. It never existed the way they paint it.

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        many people have plenty ideas of what " better" looks like throughout the left side of the spectrum. anarchists socialists and communists would like a word.

        centrists are the one stuck with a failed system they refuse to try and change meaningfully other than voting and toothless forms of protest.