Comments by "Cáit, Oz Astráil, MsSpock" (@msvulcanspock) on "Politicon"
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There's a few types of undecideds. I want to talk to you about one type. Most folks don't pay attention to the Presidential election until after Labor Day. These folks are just starting to pay attention to the Presidential election. Jeering and mocking them turns them off. Poverty is a huge influence on the undecideds.
66.2 % of Americans are living pay check to pay check. They cannot get $500 together for an emergency and they work 2-3 jobs and can't pay rent and buy food for their children. Then they have to "volunteer" for food stamps. They do not see politics as relevant to their lives.
Intergenerational Trauma, poverty and illiteracy causes folks to disengage from politics.
60% of Americans are reading and writing at a 6th Grade level this means that they haven't progressed from concrete to abstract thinking. They do not know who Murdoch is or what he owns.
Trump and FOX news use amygdala hijacks to manipulate and overwhelm folks. That means that they activate the fight, flight freeze or fawn responses in folks. If you are in fight, flight, freeze or fawn responses your prefrontal shuts down a person's rational thinking. You are biologically unable to think.
Undecideds are not choosing between Trump and Harris. They are choosing whether to vote or not in a system where they will still be living in poverty living pay check to pay check.
Political junkies, and those with secure housing, enough food to eat, access to health care and are not working 2-3 jobs are aware of the issues. Most folks don't pay attention to the Presidential election until after Labor Day. These folks are just starting to pay attention to the Presidential election and mocking them turns them off.
If Democrats and Republicans hadn't conspired to use the neoliberalist "Poverty as a Policy Choice" yes folks would have time to read, listen or engage with the news.
The New York Times ran 196 negative articles on Biden's mental decline vs 6-10 negative articles on Trump's mental decline during the same time period. When Undecideds tune in the corporate media is treating Trump like he's a normal candidate. The mainstream media is telling both sides of a lie.
The billionaire media owners want their Trump tax cuts so there is a media bias than many don't have the critical thinking skill set required to adequately interrogate or the time, mental energy to start to sort it out.
When talking to Trump voters I notice that another person in their social network has died due to lack of medical treatment. The Undecideds seem to be living in perpetual grief over the last of friends family, workmates and acquaintances.
Having the critical thinking skills, secure housing, enough food to eat and some actual time to engage in politics is a luxury that many Americans can't afford or don't have access to and they are turning up now. Ridiculing those who are traumatised by their lives isn't going to talk them out of racism, sexism and homophobia. It just leaves them feeling alone and disconnected.
Multinationals have pitted us against each other whilst stealing our water, air, natural resources and our cultural identity and citizenship.
Those fighting the culture wars are not stupid. They may not know it but they are resisting neoliberalism. They are trying to get their rights, responsibilities, the sense of purpose, of belonging to a community or a nation back. Neoliberalism shifted us from being citizens in a country who has rights and responsibilities, a sense of purpose and belonging to being consumers in a market place who is to blame if they do not have a trust fund.
The culture wars keep us at each other's throats, which suits fossil fuel companies and folks like Elon Musk keep us fighting for a piece of toast rather than realise whilst very different from each other we can knead bread together will sharing our varying views and ways of doing, being and seeing.
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