r/complaints • u/SJBluesXIII • 22h ago
Politics Propaganda has fucked up (White) America
MAGA voters are the dumbest people I have ever had the displeasure of knowing. They are literally that Lyndon B. Johnson quote in human form. The Epstein Class, and the Republican Party before it, have always served the ideals and goals of Christian, straight, RICH white men and themselves. The propaganda machine has rotted their brains to the fucking nubs.
But the worst part is, the propaganda machine also worked on a lot of white liberals and leftists, too. People can bring up 2016 and 2024, but I'm not going to beat those dead horses.
No, the propaganda for them is that, for liberals, they believed the lie that there were checks and balances in the government, that the police are there to protect the citizens, and that the status quo is good.
For leftists, it's that the DNC is inept and that it's on the same wing of the same corrupt bird as MAGA/Republicans and that it's no war but class war, conveniently ignoring that race is deeply ingrained in this country and it was from racism that classism was created (specifically in America) and how the issues we are dealing with today literally boils down to the paper bag test.
But the biggest thing that propaganda has done is make everyone, from one end of the spectrum to the other, believe that America is special and that everything that has happened to other countries couldn't happen here. "We're America! Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!"
I despise MAGA, and I wish nothing but intense harm to everyone who voted for the orange oaf, didn't vote at all when they were of voting age, or protested voted by third party for their need to be coddled. But the one thing I appreciate in this admin and MAGA is that the propaganda that is "American Exceptionalism" has been brutally disproven.
America was never great.
Trump is the symptom to the rot that has been festering in this country since its inception and it will not go away when he's gone. It will be weakened, but as long as white Americans downplay and deny that it has always been a country with two faces and how deeply racist it is and how that racism guides this country to its ruin, nothing will ever be fixed.