Dishonesty about Covid being “over,” long Covid a real problem, no discussion of the climate emergency, oligarchy, how real people are struggling due to prices of food and housing, shitty healthcare system, poor support for childcare....not discussed in this campaign. These are all crises that the two parties are not addressing. Yes I voted for Kamala too. Just fed up with all this fake outrage and keeping up the status quo of end stage capitalism.
I was surprised she did not even have a Palestinian speaker at the Convention. It would've been a small but meaningful gesture. All of that not in contradiction to the party line, but something. Or stronger assurances to end the war.
This was a fantastic and insightful read. Thank you for writing. I am particularly interested in young men and women’s choices leaning in different directions, and have been trying to write an article on this for a long time relating to why young men are mostly the ones who break into events and engage with deviant behaviour. All so fascinating.
I think it’s so interesting that when they talk about the voters who “stayed home” they never consider that those folks might be gone because of Biden’s Vax & Relax gaslighting.
I find these causal attributions about media coverage very hard to make. My sense (as a Canadian who consumes a certain amount of USA media and debate) of the demonization of all pandemic measures as "lockdowns" say is that it existed as a significant minority position from March of 2020 and grew in popularity as the acute threat of the disease lessened later in 2021. Media coverage as often or perhaps more often follows attitudes of members of the public as leads them (and likewise elite political opinion). Public opinion can be shaped from the top down or can stubbornly resist all such shaping and I feel as though various developments in the pandemic match both forms. Different people will feel alienated if the media fails to report their concerns about their skepticism of COVID measures, even if others feel alienated by the lack of concern and measures. At least that is what I saw.
Skepticism and hostility to COVID measures and debates about efficacy, the right path, economic implications (or the lack including inflation say) and who deserved protection were constant in my experience of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, thankfully concern for the collective good often prevailed, but there were worrying lapses even then. Obviously even in the debates and movements I am thinking of one might attribute some or all of the dissent to disguised top down actors (astroturf), which is why I'd say the causal attribution is very hard. Still I think there are hard questions about how we deal with fundamental disagreements that exist amongst large subsets of the population as about the deficiencies of elite political and media culture that we lack answers to.
I don’t know how we can properly evaluate the public response to the president spending a whole lot of time telling everyone that Covid is mild now and no big deal and only a danger to people who are sick and worthless, while at the same time encouraging people to get vaccinated (for a disease he says is over) once a year with a vaccine they say only lasts 3 months. Why bother? Then they are all shocked Pikachu face when people don’t run out to get vaccinated.
Dishonesty about Covid being “over,” long Covid a real problem, no discussion of the climate emergency, oligarchy, how real people are struggling due to prices of food and housing, shitty healthcare system, poor support for childcare....not discussed in this campaign. These are all crises that the two parties are not addressing. Yes I voted for Kamala too. Just fed up with all this fake outrage and keeping up the status quo of end stage capitalism.
I meant to say number 1 is our supplying weapons to Israel to kill children.
I was surprised she did not even have a Palestinian speaker at the Convention. It would've been a small but meaningful gesture. All of that not in contradiction to the party line, but something. Or stronger assurances to end the war.
This was a fantastic and insightful read. Thank you for writing. I am particularly interested in young men and women’s choices leaning in different directions, and have been trying to write an article on this for a long time relating to why young men are mostly the ones who break into events and engage with deviant behaviour. All so fascinating.
I think it’s so interesting that when they talk about the voters who “stayed home” they never consider that those folks might be gone because of Biden’s Vax & Relax gaslighting.
I find these causal attributions about media coverage very hard to make. My sense (as a Canadian who consumes a certain amount of USA media and debate) of the demonization of all pandemic measures as "lockdowns" say is that it existed as a significant minority position from March of 2020 and grew in popularity as the acute threat of the disease lessened later in 2021. Media coverage as often or perhaps more often follows attitudes of members of the public as leads them (and likewise elite political opinion). Public opinion can be shaped from the top down or can stubbornly resist all such shaping and I feel as though various developments in the pandemic match both forms. Different people will feel alienated if the media fails to report their concerns about their skepticism of COVID measures, even if others feel alienated by the lack of concern and measures. At least that is what I saw.
Skepticism and hostility to COVID measures and debates about efficacy, the right path, economic implications (or the lack including inflation say) and who deserved protection were constant in my experience of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, thankfully concern for the collective good often prevailed, but there were worrying lapses even then. Obviously even in the debates and movements I am thinking of one might attribute some or all of the dissent to disguised top down actors (astroturf), which is why I'd say the causal attribution is very hard. Still I think there are hard questions about how we deal with fundamental disagreements that exist amongst large subsets of the population as about the deficiencies of elite political and media culture that we lack answers to.
I don’t know how we can properly evaluate the public response to the president spending a whole lot of time telling everyone that Covid is mild now and no big deal and only a danger to people who are sick and worthless, while at the same time encouraging people to get vaccinated (for a disease he says is over) once a year with a vaccine they say only lasts 3 months. Why bother? Then they are all shocked Pikachu face when people don’t run out to get vaccinated.