If only our news media institutions found "ex-president promises to jail and try opponents for treason if he takes back power" as newsworthy as "unnamed aide said current president gets tired after having a full day of work."
Opponents? Hell, he's threatening to jail Pence and McConnell. The path to authoritarianism is carved out and littered with discarded quislings, but that's *still* not newsworthy, apparently.
There's another, fundamental problem:
- Based on polling, the public already believes Biden is too old, all else being equal (many people still prefer him to Trump)
- Lots of people are anchored in the past that they don't believe Trump will be able to do these things, even when he says he will.
Our media except the group on MSNBC are complicit and will be cited as one of the reasons the American experiment ended if it does. America and its capitalist ideas will also be cited as a reason. Marx was right “capitalism will sow the seeds of its own destruction”
Our fucked up apocalyptic dystopia was supposed to have cooler fashion, flying cars and competent detectives. We got the CyberTruck, "denim with destruction" and the fucking NYT
Problem is everybody is running with it now. Even this site is full of libs talking about Harris and contested conventions
Like everybody is so prone to groupthink, it’s so much worse than I thought