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Because the Trump cult is truly a cult. There will never be a "gotcha" moment when these people suddenly see the light and realize that they'd been conned; any attempt to point out the con to them only makes them embrace it tighter, believing themselves to be persecuted. And nobody in the GOP is able to destroy the monster that they've created.
Comment by AbsentThatDay2 at 19/07/2023 at 23:42 UTC
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I think the internet broke Republicans. You guys would have loved Republicans from 1992. They liked free trade, they weren't too happy with some regulations, they wanted government to butt out. If you had your choice of who you wanted to share the world with, they were not a terrible option. Because TV news time was limited to a couple hours a day, news stations were conservative about what they would show. They wouldn't show the way far right or way far left as much. They had to moderate their content closely.
Now, everyone has a megaphone and the internet has replaced published news. There's ZERO incentive to be careful about anything if you want your message to spread. The crazier it is the more views it generates.
What our society lacks now is something we can objectively look at and say is a benefit to everyone. Nobody agrees on anything, all our voices are collectively too loud in dissent to let anything happen as it usually does between small groups. Everything is legislated now, there's so many of us and we all have free publishing and no editor.
You guys would have loved 1992, all this modern malaise of being connected and social media wasn't even a thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm addicted to the internet and the immediate answers and the constant stimulation, but part of me looks back at that time and says there's never going to be another generation like that.
TLDR: feeling old