Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?
Delusional@lemmy.world 2 months agoTheir base believes in them simply due to decades of propaganda and brainwashing coming from AM radio first and then normalized on fox “news”
I’m sure if democrats were lied to about nearly everything and were told republicans were immoral enemies that are the cause of all your problems for decades, they’d have more belief in the democrat party.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It doesn’t matter why the republican base believes in their party. Incidentally, you’re not entirely wrong about why, but they’ve had rebellion too: see the TEA party.
The democrat party strategy is different. Their base isn’t aggrieved axe-grinders. They’re earnest believers in the system. The problem is that the leadership doesn’t actually want to accomplish anything that would threaten corporate profits. Trump is great for them, since all they have to do is not be him! Policies be damned.