A vote for Biden was a vote for the Great Reset.

@spjennifer Google 'neo-feudalism'. It's an emerging category that makes comparisons between the feudal era and some of the outcomes of neo-conservative policy. Who has been winning since neo-conservatism began? The top 1%. Who has been winning in the Trump (and similar types of governance in other nations) era and the pandemic? The top 1%. There is a good body of analysis around this, so worth exploring.

@Abstraction Interesting. In that case why is @hippyjoe forecasting global feudalism when Biden is president?

@SW-User Good question. Both sides of politics tend to support the elite, in fact - part of the reason Clinton and Biden were preferred by the party over Sanders, etc (alongside fears that they were unelectable) - but certainly the Republicans, and particularly Trump (who was supposed to drain the swamp) have served their interests more effectively.

@Abstraction [quote]Both sides of politics tend to support the elite[/quote]

As a non-American that's pretty much what I thought, and the last 50 years seems to support that. So I don't understand why so many Trump supporters call Biden a Marxist etc simply because Democrat policies are slightly to the left of Republicans. Past Democratic presidencies don't seem remotely socialist in my view so I doubt the next one could be much different. But like I say, I'm an interested outsider and I'm happy to be educated.

@SW-User The terms marxist and socialist are used manipulatively in the US, in complete absence of the true meaning of the words. Democrats are still right of centre - their policies aren't remotely socialist. Neither is Bernie Sanders socialist - his policies which would be standard in my own country, which is also a capitalist country.

@SW-User They know perfectly well that Democrats are not even remotely Marxist. These slurs are invented and propagated by the right wing think tanks. They are intended to offend and provoke Dems and to propagandise the least educated (and majority) of their own base.

@hartfire Yes, thought so. Right up there with pedophile and anarchist.

@hartfire Exactly, it's manipulation on a mass scale never quite seen before, mainstream media, social media, all are being infected with lies and conspiracy theories. The Republicans and their supporters are playing a dangerous game and inciting emotional responses from people as they are constantly being bombarded with the message that left=evil, paedophiles, criminals, socialists, Marxists, what have you. There will be consequences to this for the Republican party when everyone wakes up from the spell being woven on them.

@spjennifer I'm certain that you're correct.
Lies are inherently profoundly dysfunctional.
The whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.
So the greater the number of lies, the deeper the trouble will be when the results finally hit home.