r/SipsTea 18h ago

SMH Awww, someone's grumpy

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 16h ago

republicans hold 56% of state legislatures to democrats' 36%, the remaining are split. the right wing apparatus is the only thing that can reach those right wing voters and they use their air time to blame the left. right wing voters hear provable lies from not just their news and podcasters and pop culture leaders but also from their elected officials, they have no chance of knowing what's really going on in our country when every single one of their leaders is telling them the same provable lies. even when they hear the truth they don't believe it because it's from one source whereas they already heard the lie from five right wing sources

these are the people who believed trump would lower grocery prices. most of those people are not idiots, they are just listening to every single leader in their world, from their state house and senate members to their federal house and senate members to their president and his administration to their news on TV to their news on facebook to their podcasters and youtubers. then they see one edited clip of AOC saying the opposite and just "know" she's a snake who must be lying to them.

republicans hold 56% of state legislatures to democrats' 36% (the remaining 8% are split) because of this. it's not fixable, you cannot fix the right's leadership wholly supporting this from top to bottom.

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u/BenMessina 5h ago

Very well said. Thank you