If you're a reporter and you argue that the big election story is the price of gasoline and not the potential end to democracy, you're not doing your job. Here's why:
1.) You determine what the story is by covering it
2.) The end of democracy is profoundly more consequential
1.) You determine what the story is by covering it
2.) The end of democracy is profoundly more consequential
3.) The price of gasoline is not controlled by anyone in the US government (thank post COVID recovery, Putin, OPEC+ for the rise)
4.) The argument that this is or should be an election about price increases is a GOP talking point and deliberate distraction
4.) The argument that this is or should be an election about price increases is a GOP talking point and deliberate distraction
5.) With "big lie" promoting candidates on the majority of ballots nationwide, the threat that this could be our last free and fair election is real
6.) The GOP has already said if they control House or Senate they will use their power to stop inquiries into coup, election fraud
6.) The GOP has already said if they control House or Senate they will use their power to stop inquiries into coup, election fraud
7.) The GOP has regularly and nearly unanimously voted against every single proposed measure that could actually help with price pressures voters are feeling--which means they have not and will not and cannot do anything about these issues
8.) A GOP House &/or Senate will conduct sham impeachment investigations, block the progress of DoJ, & support efforts to undermine voting rights...and they will block Biden appointees to the court seeking to worsen judicial bias that is eliminating vital basic rights & freedoms
9.) GOP arguments that price increases have anything to do with Biden policies is not supported by economic analysis and is designed also to distract from the exceptionally good (historic) job creation and investment record of the Biden Admin
10.) The GOP econ track record is one of increasing deficits, creating economic crises, and aiding the rich at the expense of everyone else. (Do you think cutting social security and health benefits as they are proposing to do will help people deal w/economic pressure?)
The stakes are too high to fall for this GOP narrative. If you are a reporter and you do (or you are simply an individual using your social media platform to amplify these deceptions and distractions) you're not just getting it wrong.
If you miss the big story, the important story, the historically consequential story and allowing yourself to get lost in the MAGA smokescreen, you are making yourself an ally of the enemies of democracies, you are continuing the work of those who assaulted the Capitol on 1/6/21.
That's not an overstatement. That is the situation we face in the USA right now. History will look at the next three weeks as the moment we either lost the plot and in so doing undid the American experiment or whether saw the threat we face, framed it clearly & repelled it.
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