Sydney Sweeney does an ad for jeans, media throws a hissy fit

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curl-6 said:

Chrkeller said:

Fully agreed.  Which is why, personal opinion, the strategy of democrats needs to be re-tooled.  How the left party thinks they are viewed and how they are actually viewed...  massive gap.  On the other side, the strategy for republicans is working.  Sure it is BS talking points...  but doesn't change the fact that it is working.  So I think we are aligned here, at least for the most part.  

Yeah a big problem is that the left in recent years has been really bad at not distancing themselves from the extremists in their own ranks, so you get the perception that the majority of the left is those raving blue haired crazies just cos those ones are the loudest and the more sensible ones never seem to call out or condemn the radicals.

In this case, I don't think any rational person equates a smoking hot girl in jeans with Nazism, yet this message gets blasted across the internet anyway because the media hands a megaphone to the crazies and immediately it becomes a left vs right thing and everyone starts fighting for their "side" instead of stopping for a moment to think "actually, this is fucking stupid".

The far-right playbook is about making people believe that there is a culture war and people must pick a side. It is working because too many people are incapable of thinking rationally and allow their emotions to influence their decisions. Additionally, there's no reliable strategy to counter this. For one, you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't arrive at through reason. And two, stupid people have the habit of being unable to recognize their own stupidity.

Remember when we called you crazy curl around here (not for political reasons, but your views on Nintendo's future after the Wii U)? The best explanations in the world didn't work to get you back on track, because the prerequisite was always that you yourself recognized that you are behaving irrationally. Your feelings overruled all facts thrown your way.

That is in a nutshell why the far-right is able to gain support among voters despite proposing policies that are logically inconsistent, unrealistic or straight-up bonkers. They don't appeal to reason, they appeal to emotions. In the USA they stoked the irrational fear of trans people to get voters to voluntarily hand over their money and their rights despite all the evidence out there for how incompetent Trump is; he had already served as president for a full term and historians had already put him among the worst presidents the USA has ever had.

Gullible and stupid people usually only begin to recognize their errors when they start to really hurt them. As such, it won't matter if the Democrats can't come up with any new strategy; and they probably won't, because it's like I said, there's no reliable strategy to begin with.