#Demagoguery
Arya on @lovelyperfecttalks.bsky.social exposes the heartbreaking irony of a struggling Trump voter who regrets her choices, revealing how MAGA #demagoguery and Trump's DISASTROUS policies directly impact the very people they claim to "protect."
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MAGA Supporter's Own Words HUM...
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Patriotism,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #demagoguery #fame #nationalism #patriot #patriotism #publicity #scoundrel #villain
If it was about the price of eggs why is #NancyMace relentlessly attacking a trans woman?
#uspol #demagoguery #trans
How #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump turns a #profit on #politicalviolence
Trump is a #hatemerchant. As part of their #opportunistic and #exploitative nature, Trump, his #propagandists and other #agents are #trafficking in #violence and #chaos. This is central to Trump’s #fascism, #demagoguery, #politicalopportunism, and #feral #politics.
https://www.salon.com/2024/09/23/how-donald-turns-a-profit-on-political-violence/
#demagoguery Trump’s Anti-Haitian Hate Has Deep American Roots
The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latehttps://newrepublic.com/article/185909/trump-hatred-history-haitian-americans st in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.
“While he is not here to experience the current moment, we who worked for [#Reagan] in the White House, in the admin, in campaigns & on his personal staff, know he would join us in supporting the #HarrisWalz ticket," the group writes. "The #TimeForChoosing we face today is a choice between #integrity & #demagoguery, & the choice must be Harris-Walz. Our votes in this #election are less about supporting the Democratic Party & more about our resounding support for #democracy."
Ronald #Reagan's fmr staff back #HarrisWalz ticket: "Today is a choice between #integrity & #demagoguery."
17 fmr staff members of the late #Republican President Ronald Reagan are endorsing the Democratic nominee, VP #KamalaHarris.
In a joint statement, the staff members wrote that Reagan, if alive, would have supported #Harris.
"President Ronald Reagan famously spoke about a ‘#TimeForChoosing.'“
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ronald-reagan-former-staff-back-harris-walz-ticket/
#Democrats lock on #Latino vote that they took for granted has apparently expired, along with most of the party's former core principles.
While #Republicans are clearly defined, no one's quite sure what a Democrat is, other than a politician hitching their wagon to Joe Biden, whom polling says less than 30% believe has the mental acuity and physical fitness to enter another term.
In a tight Presidential race, Democrats can little afford to lose even a fraction of the Latino vote, the fastest growing voter bloc in the US, which is expected to provide about 15% of the total 2024 #ballots cast.
As recently as 2012 , 70% of #Hispanic & #LatinX voters dug the Donkey, but that total has severely spiraled into toilet since, with new polls showing only 20% of #LatinoVoters expressing faith in #BidenAdmin to tackle #economy & #crime, their most important issues. In a recent Ipsos Latino voter poll commissioned by Axios & Telemundo, Trump had a 22-point edge over Biden when asked about dealing with economic issues.
Despite a supposed hot economy, decades of #Democrat promises in aspirational immigrant communities have oft delivered few tangible results that voters see on a daily basis, and political consultants say any legislative achievements of Democrats have largely gone unnoticed by most voters in the news spin cycle. Democrat leadership runs most of America's largest most visible cities, many of which have become a locus of crime, #drogas and inevitable urban decay, while occasionally notorious corruption cases such as NJ Sen. Bob Menendez, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown's prison time, or the racist LA City Council scandal, all certainly didn't help bolster the image of Democrat politicians.
Despite Trump's overtly bigoted dictator envying #demagoguery, Democrats are now polling as low as they did in 1960 with non-white voters, back when Klan connected #Dixiecrats controlled much of the party caucus.
Hispanic heritage voters with roots south of the border now seem willing to accept #GOP candidates, many who have claimed religious faith as a mantle. At least one in five Latino voters surveyed as considered switching parties to Republican which, if enacted upon, is a big enough margin to throw the 2024 Presidential election.
#Biden either barely leads, or trails #Trump in many recent polls of #latinovoters such has #NYTimes which says Trump now has a 6-point edge with Latino voters, a significant slide, since #JoeBiden won 60% of their vote just a few years ago.
Other polls, have shown tighter or even greater divides in a downward direction, as Democrats have politically focused on less bread & butter basics, identity politics and "diversity, equity and inclusion", many Latinos and other non-white voters, have forged ahead on their own, starting small & large businesses, feeding families, with little interest in the pissing match of petty party politics in America.
#PaywallFree Links below
https://thefulcrum.us/ethics-leadership/donald-trump-latino-voters
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/biden-approval-drops-democrat-popularity-rises-latino-voters
https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/24091684/democrats-latino-voters-trump-biden-polling
Lyndon Johnson described how the #GOP manipulates small minded bigots for power. #Racism, #misogyny, #transphobia, #homophobia, etc.: it's a simple game plan, and it unfortunately works in a country full of hateful pin heads
This description of #AdolphHitler in 1932 is eerily reminiscent of Trumpian #demagoguery.
It's alarming how similar this #rhetoric is to some of the leading #GOP #candidates running for the #RepublicanParty #nomination for #president in the 2024 election.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Misogyny #Xenophobia #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Vaccine specialist Peter Hotez: scientists are ‘under attack for someone else’s political gain’ #InformationDynamics #Misinformation #Disinformation #IO #Demagoguery #Propaganda #Science #ScienceCommunication #Politics #NeoLysenkoism
He will probably make it in the Guiness Book of World Records for a long zome, hopefully for infinity.
He's the caricature of a leader. The only thing he is really good at is #demagoguery.
The primaries of the #GQP are turning into a shit show that could be called #America's new top #psychopath. With his ramblings about a #deepstate and "slitting throats from day one", #RondeSantis is desperately trying to pass #Trump in terms of utter insanity and #demagoguery.
#populism is #poison, and politicians banking on it have to keep escalating their incendiary language to keep their supporters happy. But if the happen to get elected, following up is not an option.
#UnitedStates
People like #MichelHouellebecq are like junkies and public acclaim is their heroine.
The only problem is that #France does not need any more #demagoguery and incendiary language right now - it needs #reconciliation and listening to each other much rather than talking about each other in a highly condescending tone.
Maybe self-declared intellectuals should check out the movie #LaHaine, as Mathieu Kassovitz was very clairvoyant with this one.
Dion Lefler: Oklahoma’s disastrous war on ‘woke’ teachers offers valuable lesson for Kansas - Educate students on how to see through dictatorial demagogues like Dan Walters Oklahoma's Secretary of Education. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/dion-lefler-oklahomas-disastrous-war-on-woke-teachers-offers-valuable-lesson-for-kansas/ #Demagoguery
#OPINION: Pierre Poilievre’s media-bashing foreshadows his approach to governing. This is a dark hole that the Conservative leader is taking his party down. Threats and even attacks on journalists are on the rise in many countries.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/02/22/pierre-poilievres-media-bashing-foreshadows-his-approach-to-governing.html #Canada #CdnPoli #PierrePoilievre #Demagoguery #AttackOnPress #Democracy #NeverVoteConservative
In America it seems LGBT+ people have been a major and growing target of political opportunity for right-wing (hate) organizing in recent years, like the story of how Chaya Raichik just tried attacking different minority groups looking for what would bolster her following on social media, and then LibsOfTikTok really took off and became influential in GOP politics and elections.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/19/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media/
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#politics #us #GOP #RepublicanParty #demagoguery
#CharlesAdler endorses #RachelNotley on #NewYearsEve:
"On the eve of 2023 in #Alberta - a political endorsement. I endorse #Democracy over #Demagoguery, Victory over Victimhood, Science over Snake Oil, Public Service over Paranoia & Leading Canada over Leaving Canada. I support Rachel Notley's campaign to return Albertans to normalcy."
#BetterOffWithNotley #abpoli #ableg #elxnab #NDP #UCP #AlbertaNDP