The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault

Because the media want him to run. Trump brings ratings. They are not incentivized to care about educating anyone; entertainment pays the bills.

You don't say? When all they do is treat this as a football game highlights. Reporting on the dumbest shit and the important things are clips or in the bottom text box.

What's worse is the media isn't emphasizing how dangerous any Republicans winning right now is. They are far more dangerous and bold than Trump is right now. They are doing a fascism in Ohio for example.

1. Go to any yt video on antarctica
2. Read the comments and count how many are about "the Dome", aliens, flat Earth.

This is your public.

"The Public" is not one thing. There's plenty of people who "understand the risks of a Trump victory." The fact that half of the public not only doesn't, but desires a Trump victory is also not the fault of "The Media," because we all have access to the same media.

People who are okay with Trump being in charge of anything are fascists, and that's their fault.

Not just trump. Any Republican president will use the federal government to go after his political rivals and critics. The entire GOP is an openly-fascist political arm of the billionaire class.

It doesn't help that the media gamely both-sides every issue, even when the issue in question is not one that has two legitimate sides.

For example, it's a story when women lose their rights and protections and bodily autonomy, when brown and poor voters lose their voting rights or have their representative power gerrymandered away, when powerful men violate the law and aren't held accountable, etc.

There are two sides to these stories, but one of them is outside the bounds of the peace that makes civilization possible and when 'the media' decline to call that out, they've picked a side and it's not the one that will sustain or defend a republic

Nearly every single repub politician is a fucking worthless traitor.

"But.. but.. fairness! Both sides!"

A trump victory is great for ratings of mainstream media. They are fueled by trump hatred and it makes them billions.

the "Press" is Capitalism only clicks and impressions matter the world can burn

If the public didn't learn from his prior presidency then we are well and truly fucked and this country is over and done with.

Through the time, the media has changed. No so long ago, it was to inform the population of what was happening outside. The news freedom is important at this point. It allows everyone to build an opinion, and it's a counter power to the state. The last decade saw a radical change in how we use the media. It's for a good part of them about making money. Where money was critical to inform the population, this same money became critical to make profit. Internet accelerates the movement with the clicks and the views. The run to maximize the profit coming from the media ruined the quality of the articles behind the motto "more and shorter".

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The poll, of course, is only one snapshot and it has been criticized, but it still tells a cautionary tale – especially when paired with the certainty that Trump, if elected, will quickly move toward making the United States an authoritarian regime.

Almost as troubling, two New York Times stories outlined Trump’s autocratic plans to put loyal lawyers in key posts and limit the independence of federal agencies.

Here’s what must be hammered home: Trump cannot be re-elected if you want the United States to be a place where elections decide outcomes, where voting rights matter, and where politicians don’t baselessly prosecute their adversaries.

“Women don’t want to die for Mike Johnson’s religious beliefs,” as Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast said on MSNBC, referring to the theocratic House speaker.

The Guardian’s David Smith laid out the contrast: “Since Biden took office the US economy has added a record 14m jobs while his list of legislative accomplishments has earned comparisons with those of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson … Trump, meanwhile, is facing 91 criminal indictments in Atlanta, Miami, New York and Washington DC, some of which relate to an attempt to overthrow the US government.”

Pin down Republicans about whether they support Trump’s lies and autocratic plans, as ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos did in grilling the House majority leader Steve Scalise about whether the 2020 election was stolen.

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Most people aren't that bright to begin with.

Almost no one is smart when stressed, scared, or worried about survival and basic needs.

A lot of people in the US are stressed and worried about basic needs.

So you have a lot of people who weren't that sharp to begin with rolling with huge penalties because they're scared and worried if they're going to be able to pay their bills or be homeless.

It's not a good situation.

Fixing it won't be easy. Basic income, nationalized health care, breaking up monopolies would all help. But here we are.

Yes.

WAIT NO. This meatballs running again???!

Burn it to the ground 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Edit- or feel free to keep taking it. Put up with the same media that between 2014-16 published THOUSANDS of articles about Hillary Clinton's emails and benghazi and next to nothing about the truth and dangers of that mutant trump. Keep taking it like good consumers. Let Billionaire agendas influence and control the narrative of your lives. Keep paying into the system that empowers plutocracy and divides us as a nation and is destroying the fabric of society and our planet just so some assholes that couldn't spend their entire wealth in multiple lifetimes can add a few more zeros onto their bank statement.

Even applying the military? Come on guys. Really? I hate the orange fuck as much as anyone else but this makes us look silly.

it's so so sooooo difficult to take this language seriously. because EVERY election is phrased with this sky-is-falling rhetoric. i am 45 and for as long as i have been a voter, this-next-one is the-big-one.

nevertheless, i do actually think that this time bad things really will happen.

also, i want to get it out there that even though this guardian piece downplays "biden is old", i cannot stress enough that i will unconditionally NOT vote for biden. so these fuckers better put up a reasonable candidate very quickly.

I have little doubt that the country will end up as some version of Trump's authoritarian state. The question is the timing.

I actually think that our best chance of avoiding it (in the long run) is another Trump victory. He will make those changes so abruptly that people will react far more strongly than if we slid into an authoritarian state gradually. I mean....think about the possibility of Trump having won in 2020. The DNC would have to accept that they need to nominate a truly progressive candidate, and people would be demanding change immediately. Instead, we're justifying Biden/Harris again because they're not Trump.