I think what you’re failing to consider is that this kind of decorum and protocol DOES mean a lot to conservatives and they fucking know it. Sure it’s by and large moot by it’s own merit, but conservatives for years have obsessed over this shit.
So if the story reaches more of them because of attention received, all the better. And if they sit on their hands while this and other factors bother them internally, maybe many will quietly avoid voting.
I’m torn in that I know what you mean and I want to agree, I’m sure it matters to some segment of the old-guard republicans, I just don’t think it matters where we need to the most, which is voting and political engagement.
I mean, if you want to see just how bad it is, read the 2024 exit polling where people are asked their politics and why they voted what they did… countless people who don’t like Trump voted for Trump. Countless people who voted for Obama and Biden voted for Trump. There are interviews with family members of people who have been detained, deported or even murdered by ICE who shrug and say they will still vote for Trump.
That all ain’t normal and I’ve been around a few. I feel strongly that something has shifted in public discourse and the only thing that will break the spell now will be if enough of these people who don’t seem to care if anything is real or not, suddenly become really, really uncomfortable as a consequence of politics, otherwise it’s all fake to them, it’s all theater and suspension of disbelief for the sake of being part of a narrative. The 2020’s and Covid have accelerated a lot of people into a kind of headspace that isn’t reasonable or logical and AI and slop media is making it worse every day.
I think the $100+ per barrel gas prices right now are probably going to do far more to swing conservatives and liberals than all the ceremony and tradition in the world.
I think what you’re failing to consider is that this kind of decorum and protocol DOES mean a lot to conservatives and they fucking know it. Sure it’s by and large moot by it’s own merit, but conservatives for years have obsessed over this shit.
So if the story reaches more of them because of attention received, all the better. And if they sit on their hands while this and other factors bother them internally, maybe many will quietly avoid voting.
I’m torn in that I know what you mean and I want to agree, I’m sure it matters to some segment of the old-guard republicans, I just don’t think it matters where we need to the most, which is voting and political engagement.
I mean, if you want to see just how bad it is, read the 2024 exit polling where people are asked their politics and why they voted what they did… countless people who don’t like Trump voted for Trump. Countless people who voted for Obama and Biden voted for Trump. There are interviews with family members of people who have been detained, deported or even murdered by ICE who shrug and say they will still vote for Trump.
That all ain’t normal and I’ve been around a few. I feel strongly that something has shifted in public discourse and the only thing that will break the spell now will be if enough of these people who don’t seem to care if anything is real or not, suddenly become really, really uncomfortable as a consequence of politics, otherwise it’s all fake to them, it’s all theater and suspension of disbelief for the sake of being part of a narrative. The 2020’s and Covid have accelerated a lot of people into a kind of headspace that isn’t reasonable or logical and AI and slop media is making it worse every day.
I think the $100+ per barrel gas prices right now are probably going to do far more to swing conservatives and liberals than all the ceremony and tradition in the world.