r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/OceanBlue20 • 17d ago
Teamsters didn't endorse Kamala Harris for not committing to keep Lina Khan as FTC Chair. Trump just announced that he is firing her for a pro-business stooge. Play stupid games win stupid prices. Trump
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u/Frapplo 17d ago
The ignorance is a huge part of it, and it's important to understand where that ignorance stems from.
For decades, we've been under constant assault from right wing media corporations using Orwellian tactics to paint social progress and social justice as the end of Western civilization. It's been working like a charm, too. Not a single person railing against socialism could give an accurate description of what socialism is. No one who spits every time they hear the name "Marx" could tell you what he said. I'm sure they have no idea who Engles is.
It took the literal murder of a healthcare CEO for avowed "rightists" to start unironically stating their leftist positions. Healthcare for all? What is this? Communist Canada?! And this after a 3 year pandemic where people grimaced at the thought of a government-funded vaccine from the Trump Administration they voted into office!
I digress.
Until we get these assholes like Hannity, Shapiro, Bannon, etc. off the air, we're going to be dealing with the same right-wing conspiracy nonsense that holds back any attempt to fix a system rigged against us. Worse, we're stuck fighting the very same people who, like us, very much need to system fixed.