What worries me for the short term is that challenging economic circumstances due to myriad complex global factors are going to be pinned on the Dems. Republicans literally aided and abetted an insurrection but GAS PRICES!!!!!!
Yeah isn't it funny how that works? And by funny I mean the literal worst thing ever... Worth asking the question about *who* is pinning that on the dems. It's a safe assumpition that it'll happen which is a testament to the right wing media machine that's 24/7 on every device. Of course the price at the pump is it's own media machine, but the far-right is able to gloss over the complexity and simply offer Dems as an explanation. If "the left" had anything comparable, we'd blast out the fact that oil company *profits* are multiplying themselves. As Katie Porter pointed out, that's how you know giant companies are price gouging. If they were raising gas prices to keep pace with inflation, you wouldn't see profits multiplying themselves because the increased cost would eat them up. Yet across the board, oil company profits are going gangbusters. The left needs many things but a massive investment in compelling, inescapable, non-cringe worthy explainer media would be good... and that's all the confirmation bias I'll display today!
Oh! And one more thing... not that Dems would turn around and meet the enormity of climate change with policy of the same scale if they won the midterms, but it really squigs me out that the only party coming close to meeting that challenge in the last best window we have to avoid calamity will probably go down in the midterms over trivial stuff like gas prices despite the other party literally attempting a coup... that's not great.
That's the truth. And it's reflective of the priority that the right has placed on strategic, below the radar, long term planning. ALEC is hardly alone. Their wins are echoed by the Federalist Society, the Koch network, and an alphabet soup of non-profits backed by billionaires with a political agenda. These things definitely don't do anything for my "hope" quadrant, but all of them are funsamentally the same forces that try to break unions at Amazon, for example. Wins are possible. And I think they come from taking clear stands on class lines.
What worries me for the short term is that challenging economic circumstances due to myriad complex global factors are going to be pinned on the Dems. Republicans literally aided and abetted an insurrection but GAS PRICES!!!!!!
Yeah isn't it funny how that works? And by funny I mean the literal worst thing ever... Worth asking the question about *who* is pinning that on the dems. It's a safe assumpition that it'll happen which is a testament to the right wing media machine that's 24/7 on every device. Of course the price at the pump is it's own media machine, but the far-right is able to gloss over the complexity and simply offer Dems as an explanation. If "the left" had anything comparable, we'd blast out the fact that oil company *profits* are multiplying themselves. As Katie Porter pointed out, that's how you know giant companies are price gouging. If they were raising gas prices to keep pace with inflation, you wouldn't see profits multiplying themselves because the increased cost would eat them up. Yet across the board, oil company profits are going gangbusters. The left needs many things but a massive investment in compelling, inescapable, non-cringe worthy explainer media would be good... and that's all the confirmation bias I'll display today!
Oh! And one more thing... not that Dems would turn around and meet the enormity of climate change with policy of the same scale if they won the midterms, but it really squigs me out that the only party coming close to meeting that challenge in the last best window we have to avoid calamity will probably go down in the midterms over trivial stuff like gas prices despite the other party literally attempting a coup... that's not great.
ALEC has been working on criminalizing protests for decades. Our window of opportunity is narrowing.
That's the truth. And it's reflective of the priority that the right has placed on strategic, below the radar, long term planning. ALEC is hardly alone. Their wins are echoed by the Federalist Society, the Koch network, and an alphabet soup of non-profits backed by billionaires with a political agenda. These things definitely don't do anything for my "hope" quadrant, but all of them are funsamentally the same forces that try to break unions at Amazon, for example. Wins are possible. And I think they come from taking clear stands on class lines.