Summary

President Joe Bidenā€™s economic achievementsā€”lowering inflation, reducing gas prices, creating jobs, and boosting manufacturingā€”are largely unrecognized by the public, despite his successes.

His tenure saw landmark legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and major infrastructure investments.

However, Bidenā€™s approval ratings remain low, attributed to inflation backlash, weak communication, and a media landscape prone to misinformation.

Democrats face a ā€œpropaganda problemā€ rather than a policy failure, with many voters likely to credit incoming President Trump for Bidenā€™s accomplishments due to partisan messaging and social media dynamics.

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    8 days ago

    Hence, Democrats suck a propaganda.

    They should field and finance their own radio jockeys and be flooding the airways with their own counter messages, but instead theyā€™ve abandoned that terrain to the right and now are paying for it.

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      Something that piece of shit David Frum said on his Twitter once regarding the rightwing/leftwing media system was ā€˜the left is awash with talent but has no funding while thr right is awash with funding but has no talentā€™.

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        Kamala had a billion dollars. Progressives have a deep ecosystem of independent media that establishment Democrats undermine at every opportunity. Democrats were hand in hand with Republicans in pushing social media ā€œreformsā€ that today promote media like FOX News as trustworthy over progressive media sources. The Democrats create their own weakness.

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      Conservative messaging wins propaganda battles because itā€™s simple. Democrats canā€™t use the same tactics, because theyā€™ll be less effective no matter what. Preventing consolidation of media and monopolization of media would be more effective, since itā€™s a centrally coordinated effort. Or just preventing anybody from having enough money that theyā€™d even have the ability to do that.