It’s a “touch grass” situation honestly. Don’t believe the tv or internet. Do connect with your neighbors to chat and organize. No one else can do it for us, it’s just incredibly frustrating. I have mentioned, we’ve self selected into certain regions. The US is currently being held hostage by the tyranny of the minority so we’ve gotta do what we can. I hate that the rest of the country sees a Californian as a non-citizen but I can’t fix that where I am at. I just have to bully all of my friends and family to vote. And I demand those “I Voted” stickers!

Comrade!!! Thanks for your support and I hope we are victorious!

We thank you for your patience in these troubling times. I am sure that you have heard this enough but we really don’t want to do a real life Canadian Bacon. Although that and South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut are funny films. I do assure you that there is a lot going on locally that doesn’t get as much coverage. Please keep some faith in us, we’re trying and it’s so very hard.

Yeah the polls are as biased as our media. I don’t trust them either. What I do trust is all of the local activation I have been seeing. It’s one thing to lie to a pollster from the couch, it’s another to physically show up at your local city council meeting. I have been seeing a lot of latter, ngl.

You have nailed the basic rot of our society but underestimate the work. Community has fragmented so much that reaching these people is, well difficult. There is a few major problems, first the media has done an incredible job of convincing a major portion of the population to hate their own children. I am still amazed they pulled off this alchemy, but people who identify as conservative are willing to believe that their own adult children are just lazy lairs corrupted by the liberal media instead of the basic fact that capitalism is failing young people. It’s baffling and terrifying that they’re willing to cut off family instead of examining their own circumstances. Second, furthering the community collapse is the lack of jobs in rural areas. Educated Americans go to get jobs, but jobs that require a college education only spawn in blue areas. So these folks tend to be branded traitors by the community they left behind and the new area they vote in already agrees with them. It’s a huge self selection bias. Ugh then there’s AI and social media making the disinformation even worse and I am trying to disentangle that in my own family.

TL:DR- we’re really sick and distrustful. People are trying and while you’re not wrong to criticize please give us some grace as we figure out how to out maneuver our billionaire controlled media to undo this brainwashing. Also you’re not wrong saying it will take decades.

This. The republicans have completely failed on the “affordability” narrative to the point where their own base isn’t buying it anymore. Between defunding healthcare and the real time impacts of DOGE fucking up, well gestures vaguely at everything. It’s almost impossible to pick a single unifying issue since there is so much fucked up right now. I think it’s hard to build a narrative because there’s so much discontent but there’s so many angry people that I can’t call Trump popular.

Then what are you asking for? Americans are protesting, in record numbers in fact. They’re going to their local town halls and screaming at their representatives. Some cowards are ditching their public but people are going after them. The DSA has made incredible progress organizing their ground game. People are literally cutting down cameras. What is it that makes you think any of this is popular? What else should we be doing?

That’s part of it. The other part is there seems to be a looooot of local activation for data centers, flock cameras, and book bans. On a local level people are turning out to scream at their local officials, at a level I have never seen. I may be an optimist, but the American people seem to be more plugged in. The sky high gas rates for a pointless war of choice isn’t helping his cause any either. Don’t get me wrong the ICE stuff is a goddamn travesty, but there’s so much other bull shit going on too that we seem to have a lot of really strange coalitions forming these days.

I honestly think that some of these accounts will continue to call him “popular” until the guillotines come out. They seem to forget that there is an election coming up in less than 2 months. I guess it’s easy to demand political violence when it’s not their country.