It’s absolutely incredible how corporate news works. The Democratic Party isn’t struggling because “leftist ideas” are dominating.
It’s struggling because it isn’t addressing material conditions, leaving the GOP to dominate the narrative and using straw men as villains.
It’s struggling because it isn’t addressing material conditions, leaving the GOP to dominate the narrative and using straw men as villains.
The Squad, or whatever we want to call them, doesn’t have power. “Leftist” policies have no home or sway, it’s the perceived power the Right uses for its own purposes.
Meanwhile, centrists continue to push centrist pro-market, neoliberal politics as a solution.
Meanwhile, centrists continue to push centrist pro-market, neoliberal politics as a solution.
The Republican Party fights a weaponized version of the Democratic Party, one in which leftists control the levers of power. Meanwhile, Leftists are marginalized and powerless.
It’s a wrestling match, a complete illusion, but it benefits the agenda of corporate news.
It’s a wrestling match, a complete illusion, but it benefits the agenda of corporate news.
Corporate owned news isn’t unbiased. It has a pro-market, neoliberal agenda. It just so happens that the GOP’s framing of a “socialist uprising” benefits both the Republican Party’s ability to fundraise and win elections and the corporate news’s goals.
Meanwhile, as the GOP, corporate news, and neoliberal Democrats decry in unison “leftist ideas and threats,” the pro-market consensus rolls on.
The remaining battle space is cultural, particularly consumer culture, where corporations compete for ideological demographics.
The remaining battle space is cultural, particularly consumer culture, where corporations compete for ideological demographics.
The frightening thing is that as the GOP, Dems, and corporate media continue forwarding the neoliberal consensus, there is an authoritarian, illiberal movement providing one of the few alternatives.
They’re gaining incredible power from harnessing anger.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-party-tear…
They’re gaining incredible power from harnessing anger.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-party-tear…
This story of American politics is an cover for what is actually transpiring: corporations and the wealthy feasting on hypercapitalist, libertarian politics have outgrown and captured politics.
The parties exist within that paradigm and these narratives are just diversions.
The parties exist within that paradigm and these narratives are just diversions.
And, as “Leftist Ideas” are used to spook voters by the GOP and corporate news, law enforcement and the military are being shoveled mountains of cash with almost no resistance.
It’s a game. Full stop.
It’s a game. Full stop.
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