Red States live in a different media bubble not reporting those same deaths, either, and living under "right to work" laws and other labor unfriendly regulations, such as Only National Minimum Wage, which is still $7.25, amongst other oppressive anti-Liberty laws, often too busy to engage in politics.
There are many points where the two sides may imagine that they meet, but it is an illusion of the mind drowning in modern information and local context. A mirage.
We are a great nation of States, and under the current Republican Supreme Court we will continue to further attribute many powers to the States.
International AstroTurfing influenced the MAGA thought, 'it's a win if we win, or a steal if we lose the election.' That was a ridiculous, childish and unsporting mentality. Do you have no faith in the American people to operate as a Nation of Laws?
Blue State people thought Harris was a 55% chance to win candidate. That means she should have won by 50.4% to Trump's 48%? Not really, even a 99% candidate has a 1% chance of losing.
Just those two examples among so much else, was all because of mass media bubbles, selective reading, and social or micro media silos.
The MSM, Main Stream Media, or mass media has Corporatist interests and have been supporters of Neo liberalism and International Capitalism, since Reagan deregulated them.
As Reagan pronounced it, we are in the Information Age. As such, we are reduced to cross referencing summaries of complexities, each a tragedy worthy of study, into neat one liners, encapsulations and sound bites. Memes. What of the average citizens? Everyone has an account and anyone can have an opinion!
In response to this overload, the average citizen is only able to consume a small, predigested portion from the outstanding events on this planet filled by 8 billion of us- let alone each in their own lives happening daily. How much does any one person's opinion matter?
Moreover, what are we meant to make, or do, about the cascade of facts and tragedies presented in manifold ways at all hours through communications?
For one thing, International Political AstroTurf can be imported and exported. Taking advantage of the A) Macro Corporatist Communications environment, each State in our Union, or at least it's media market, can be manipulated to normalize, both-sides, and sportify the messaging. There's apparently a playbook.
Within that context, the other end of the environment. B) Bloggers, pundits and reporters, like your humble author, drowning in facts, optimizing and contextualizing. C) Aggregators like upstart social media organizations are messaging and formulating the opinions. D) influencers helping are like waiters to select our diet, digestion and sometimes detritus. E) Social media companies applying algorithms for gratification and commercialization. F) Individuals sharing with others are varnishing the messaging with a personal flourish of subjective truth. "Social media ecosystem."
Except:
Why did we have proto-MAGA crowds in 2015, chanting "lock her up?"
In introducing the poisonous International Populism, aside from the personality cult figure, early on, the concepts of jailing a political opponent, the opposite number is the enemy, and my team over your team at all costs- the sportification of politics - was novel. That was some 'Banana Republic' stuff.
American Institutionalism was in the end cooperative. I would be a Pollyanna to suggest politics in the past was pure and ethical.
Rather, the International Populists playbook has unfolded, and nine years later in earnest members of our American franchise from the left were, and still are, honestly of the decided opinion that the AstroTurf candidate to be installed, should now also be "locked up."
Next week we should find out....
To whit, even now we are digesting the International Populist Red Pill we collectively have chosen to swallow, again.
The Populist candidate has made a
mockery of decorum, honor and becoming behavior, thus undermining the Institution
of the Presidency.
Be clear, China moved to mixed Communism, and there are Chinese Billionaires. There exists in Russia a Cleptocracy of Billionaires who have profited from the collapse of the Soviet Empire. International Populism is in fact a Rump Lemon Corporatism to cater to the Aristocracy of existing Billionaires without borders!
These strange nominations for cabinet ministers are by design sowing Chaos in and of themselves, but also if those grossly underqualified individuals are appointed, surely mass chaos should ensue.
I was watching UK Prime Ministers Question Hour, and someone said Torys (Rightists, Republicans and now Populists) only introduced Austerity and Chaos, whilst in power. That led to the Labor landslide this year, and now recovery from a dozen years of deferred maintenance for Great Britain begins in earnest.
Why would the International Populists want that Austerity and Chaos here and abroad? If the government is non-functional, chaotic and bribable, then the International Billionaires, are freed up from regulation (and taxes) to make even more wealth with the Economic engines of state.
Unfortunately, for Democrats, the sentiment around the world after the response to Macro Economic COVID-19 recovery efforts was to vote out the incumbents.
Fortunately for Democrats they should have a hard swing of the pendulum back to them after two to four years of Populist's willful neglect, as we saw in UK.
Unfortunately or fortunately, the Republican Populists now are the proverbial Dog who caught the moving Car. What will they do with the three branches of power?
Be clear, China moved to mixed Communism, and there are Chinese Billionaires. There exists in Russia a Cleptocracy of Billionaires who have profited from the collapse of the Soviet Empire. International Populism is in fact a Rump Lemon Corporatism to cater to the Aristocracy of existing Billionaires without borders!
These strange nominations for cabinet ministers are by design sowing Chaos in and of themselves, but also if those grossly underqualified individuals are appointed, surely mass chaos should ensue.
I was watching UK Prime Ministers Question Hour, and someone said Torys (Rightists, Republicans and now Populists) only introduced Austerity and Chaos, whilst in power. That led to the Labor landslide this year, and now recovery from a dozen years of deferred maintenance for Great Britain begins in earnest.
Why would the International Populists want that Austerity and Chaos here and abroad? If the government is non-functional, chaotic and bribable, then the International Billionaires, are freed up from regulation (and taxes) to make even more wealth with the Economic engines of state.
Unfortunately, for Democrats, the sentiment around the world after the response to Macro Economic COVID-19 recovery efforts was to vote out the incumbents.
Fortunately for Democrats they should have a hard swing of the pendulum back to them after two to four years of Populist's willful neglect, as we saw in UK.
Unfortunately or fortunately, the Republican Populists now are the proverbial Dog who caught the moving Car. What will they do with the three branches of power?
Whatever happens in these next many years shall be the sole responsibility of the Republicans, and they won't be able to scapegoat or blame anybody else for the outcomes!
Unfortunately, we now must probably endure the hardships of chaos and Austerity. I hope I am wrong.
Unfortunately, we now must probably endure the hardships of chaos and Austerity. I hope I am wrong.
