Jason Bateman: It's time to start calling out his voters,not him.

[MadameButterfly]

88. Exactly

Of course Dems still do good things for working class and poor, while R's don't, but there was a move to the middle under Clinton though I'm becoming foggy about the specifics (repeal of Glass Steagall? Welfare reform? etc.). Unions for whatever reason have been weakened in recent decades and this was a major source of Democratic working class support.

The working class and poor MAGA and swing voters are voting against their own interests and we suffer the repercussions. It's easiest to hate them. But there have been through history people vulnerable to propaganda, and that's what is going on here. This kind of propaganda feeds on fears of not having enough and blaming people who are foreign or different, though it's really the creators of the propaganda who are taking the resources away. The plot is the same from one culture to another over time. Look at Hitler, Stalin, McCarthyism, Trump. The oligarchs have successfully made Socialism a dirty word, while offering Socialist subsidies to the rich and aligning themselves with a former KGB officer.

I think what is different now is the degree of propaganda from the right which just didn't happen in the days of Walter Cronkite. Media not adhering to journalistic standards, algorithms encouraging sensationalism and conflict, and interference by a totalitarian government who funds disinformation for Russia and abroad.

We only win if we can bring them over to our side. We have to focus on the swing voters, the low information voters, the voters in the bubble who could could learn if we could reach them, and not lump them in with the hard core right who are really prone to evil.