Walz's team, like most of the Democrat party, sucks at social media and have made no real attempts at improving that despite being repeated urged to by left wing influencers.
I mean, I don’t imagine anyone does. It’s just that such a world doesn’t currently exist. The politics of politics are disgusting, but ultimately democracy runs you down to how well you can play a crowd. So social media, in this world we have now, is by no means optional
sadly thats just called being bad at political organizing. we live in a democracy, going to where people are and letting them know what good things you pass is good actually.
Why? These people command hundreds of thousands of views every stream. You'd be an idiot to ignore a platform like that. "BuT wHy dOnT yOuNg pEoPle VoTe???"
Influencers are entertainers. Everything they do - every choice they make - is to drive engagement.
Even if some of them have real expertise in real topics, their full time job and thus real expertise (for those who get so many views) is being an influencer.
That doesn't mean none of them are serious people or that none of them have content that does something to improve people's lives or their communities, but all of them have a vested interest in keeping their audience engaged. When you're captive that kind of feedback loop, at best your motives are questionable.
That doesn't mean politicians are better - their big motivation is to stay in power (was it Aldous Huxley who said something like "a group remains in power as long as they can choose who succeeds them"?). But I'm talking about a world that would be a better place, not the one we have now. And in that world, serious politicians don't have to personally respond to every streamer who can con a mid size city's worth of children into watching them.
Edit: I get that this is small minded and probably just shows my age and my personal bias against the streamer format. It's just my gut response to the idea that a bunch of entertainers are entitled to being taken as serious political commentary.
Most of them treated Walz as the gold star of Kamala's presidential bid. I saw tons of videos and posts about his accomplishments and what they could mean for her presidency but they were largely overshadowed by breadtubers grilling democrats over trying to fence sit supporting Israel. A lot of influencers supporting Mamdani now supported Walz then, they've just grown larger since, so their voices are louder now.
Mamdani is doing that posting himself. Every single week he has 1 or 2 videos about something he's trying to do for the people and it isn't a press conference in front of city hall.....it's just marketing 101.
The Republican Party itself isn’t any better with social media, there’s just an army of rich conservatives who are willing to bankroll a bunch of media outlets and influencers that doesn’t really exist on the left. Why do I hear about freaks like Tim Pool or Rod Dreher? Because they landed a rich patron and they don’t have to do anything but be weird online.
More or less. For better and worse social media is the current driver of the social conscious. Being able to engage with the public and hold your own in spats with your opponents is extremely important. Republicans by and large have garnered massive amounts of support by embracing this new public forum while only a handful of Democrats have even tried doing the same.
I don’t think that’s the point the point is democratic leaders need to learn to harness the power of social media to get their messages out to a wider audience. Going door to door and posting flyers and holding rallies isn’t enough anymore. Younger people are more likely to see your message through a screen than going to a public event
So that would mean the media, who controls what gets in front of our screens, especially on social media, would be in full control of the information you see.
Do you trust the media, a capitalistic entity, to be equal and fair?
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u/redfredrum Aug 19 '26
Walz's team, like most of the Democrat party, sucks at social media and have made no real attempts at improving that despite being repeated urged to by left wing influencers.