Gonna keep this short and straight to the point, we all know how they act.

With trump siding with the Tech Bros Billionaires on immigration, even after his most die hard supporters were against it. I see several MAGAS just falling in line with Elon calling them stupid and that’s why we need more educated and qualified people to take these better jobs (whilst we’re on the cusp of deleting the Department of Education).

Anyone with functions eyes and ears can tell you they’ve been played, but they’re still deeply loyal to trump even though he back tracking on one of his biggest (and few) positions. Without mass deportations or hawkish immigration laws. What the hell does trump even offer to these people other than the occasional dog whistles they love?

  • @BadmanDanOPEnglish
    2•4 days ago

    But HOW has it been working for republicans? What drives the “ignorant” voter to them? Even if economist are saying their policies are worse.

    • @givesomefucksEnglish
      4•4 days ago

      Decades of propaganda…

      This isn’t a hypothetical after Watergate and Nixon having to resign they decided the issue was non biased reporting, so they started Fox News.

      “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” the 41-year-old memo that Cook says was a lynchpin in a “nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to circumvent the ‘prejudices of network news’ and deliver ‘pro-administration’ stories to heartland television viewers.”

      https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/roger-ailes-nixon-gawker-documents/352363/

      The neoliberal movement is trying to replicate it, but Republicans have too much of a head start, they’ll never catch up.

      But by now billionaires already own all the media because both parties have been de-regulating journalism and corporations.

    • @[email protected]MEnglish
      2•4 days ago

      For one thing, a greater reliance upon authority figures than critical thinking skills. That sounds bad, but really genuinely truly how many of us know better than an economics professor with a PhD and decades of experience in exactly that field, like Robert Reich? So we tend to think in like manner as well.

      A big difference is that if said authority figure ever lets us down then we distrust anything that they say, while conservatives continue to offer the benefit of the doubt bc if they are in a position of authority, there must be a reason for it. Tbh, pastors telling people from behind a pulpit to watch Faux News has a lot to do with it…:-(