Posted on 12/27/2024 11:04:47 AM PST by Red Badger
It’s official: we now have perhaps the worst excuse from liberal media for Vice President Kamala Harris’s resounding defeat to Donald Trump.
Since the election, Democratic Party operatives, liberal intellectuals and cable news hosts have served up a slew of excuses for the November disaster, everything from hate-fueled racism to plain old sexism. But Salon writer Amanda Marcotte has the worst excuse of them all: Kamala got shellacked because of Q-Anon-adjacent conspiracy theories.
Marcotte writes that Americans who voted for Trump are addicted to conspiracy theories on social media, whereas the average Harris voter is someone who lives grounded in reality, consuming their news from establishment media outlets. Naturally, Americans who like to flirt with fringe theories like Q-Anon will go all in for the candidate who — allegedly — is the king of spreading lies and that dirty word, “disinformation.”
“What quickly becomes evident about the median voters in an American focus group is how profoundly opposed they are to even the most basic factual information,” Marcotte claims. “On the contrary, it’s a community with a pathological aversion to reality, where people compulsively react to anything truth-shaped with hostility, running as hard as they can toward disinformation. They are addicted to BS. Of course they voted for Trump, the country’s most reliable dealer of their favorite drug.”
Never mind that the Biden-Harris administration has been a slow-moving disaster since 2021. Never mind the inflation, the porous border, the foreign wars sucking up American tax dollars. Never mind the lunatic ideas embraced by the Democratic Party elites, such as sex changes for kids and sanctuary cities. Never mind the simple fact that Harris was one of the worst presidential candidates in modern political history, a witless clod who could barely handle a sit-down interview, who could barely handle a softball question without bursting out into a cackling fit. Never mind that her running mate, Tim Walz, was a Marxist Mr. Magoo who spent the final days of the campaign desperately, shamelessly pandering to the young men his party has alienated for years.
No, none of that matters! None of that explains her loss in the slightest. It’s all marginal. The real reason is that too many Americans are spending too much time on social media and spreading dangerous memes that undermine the regime’s propaganda.
Unlike Marcotte, one Kamala Harris staffer, deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty, had enough self-awareness to understand that her loss had far more to do with the party’s utter disconnect with regular Americans than those voters’ predilection for online memes and raw milk.
“For the left, our amplification ecosystem is the mainstream media and Hollywood, and the mainstream media and Hollywood don’t really mess with us — they’re not actually allies. And they’re not where these voters who don’t want to pay attention to politics are. We are sitting here at Harvard at a big event with mainstream media. Voters out there that we actually needed to reach are not seeing this at all, and they’re not seeing mainstream media at all,” Flaherty said at a Harvard politics event Dec. 6.
“I think, fundamentally, we have a mismatch between the amplification engine of the left and the media of this moment, which is increasingly alternative, anti-establishment … that presents a real issue for us, the party of institutions, at a time when people really hate institutions,” he went on to say.
Spot on.
Although there might be a kernel of truth to the fact that Americans like conspiracy theories, it certainly was not a major factor, the factor, in this election. Marcotte also fails to see the very same dynamic on the left, that they are trapped within their own propaganda ecosystem, ensnared by their own delusions, the most damaging of which was the notion that Harris was actually a good candidate who could appeal to regular voters.
That's some projection, that is.
She described the average ‘liberal’ perfectly..............
Hmmm. Whereas MAGA people are addicted to conspiracies . . like Biden is close to dementia state, Kamala is a cackling nitwit who can't debate, the economy is in shambles thanks to inflation and businesses closing down, dollars go to illegals and Ukraine instead of US citizens wiped out by natural disasters.
Those on the Left are pathological in their inability to accept responsibility for their actions.
GOOD! That's what we want and I hope they keep that up! Never give the enemy unsolicited, helpful consultation. Let them wrap themselves up in their own lies and continue to self destruct.
And DU is loaded with people who think just like that.
It’s staggering how deceived they are and how consumed with hatred.
Their self-delusion is Orwellian in it’s scope.
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink”
― George Orwell, 1984
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself — that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Democrats are giving all sorts of excuses or reasons for their loss. Do they ever admit that they failed to make the case to the American people to vote for Kamala?
Shouldn’t they have debunked these conspiracy theories, which they blame for their loss? Clearly all the “Trump is Hitler” nonsense just didn’t resonate with people.
Democrats will never, ever admit that their losses are directly tied to their policies. Never. Ever. In fact they will do mental somersaults and bend their brains into pretzels to concoct an excuse, no matter how far out of logic it is...
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always The Revolution.....
You knew liberals would never look inward, their existence is one of finding others to blame for all their problems. That’s the good news, as they will repeat their mistakes and keep losing.
Anti-establishment was cool when THEY were doing it!................
There is certainly some validity to this statement - just remove the ad hominin adjectives.
Those who were willing to listen to other sources, and judge based on their own eyes and ears, certainly reached different conclusions to those who get their "news" food-fed to them by the DNC propaganda cartel (CNN, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, NYTimes, WashPost, Google, Facebook, and yes, FoxNews).
It just should be phrased that the average Harris voter is like the ostrich that keeps its head in the ground rather than listen to anything other than the approved Big State narrative.
Article: “at a time when people really hate institutions”
The left has completed its long march through the institutions.
That means the enemy has us surrounded—and we know exactly who they are and where they are.
Freedom of speech was also cool when they were doing it.
On top of that they believe men can get pregnant, just putting on a dress or simply declaring I am a woman makes a person a woman yet they can’t define a woman. They believe in nothing that is factual or truthful. DemonRats are simply lost in a giant contradiction of facts given up to their make believe world of sin. Ultimately it comes down to mocking God and their worship of self.
-PJ
Conspiracy theories are out of control. Those who voted for Kamala did so to vote against Trump. But the fact of the matter is, Kamala is a train wreck
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