• joekar1990@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Also a majority of Americans are fucking straight up dumb and not engaged in politics or news at all. Last study I saw Americans average a 6th grade reading level. What this looks like in practice though is:

    • Can read: Straightforward, informational text like food labels, bills, and basic news articles.
    • Can understand: Stories with plots, character changes, and a clear point of view.
    • Likely needs help with: Texts that use a high degree of academic vocabulary, complex sentence structures, or highly abstract concepts, as found in high school or college-level material.

    So until the Dems can also narrow and dumb down their messaging they won’t gain ground. It’s why when Walz called them weird it worked so well because everyone understands that.

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      So until the Dems can also narrow and dumb down their messaging they won’t gain ground

      That would require them to have a concrete program that can be stated plainly. Democrats don’t do what you said not because they don’t know how, but because it’d be pretty clear that their program offers nothing of substance to the working class.

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      I kinda want to see Trump go on a Twitter rant explaining why the Weak Force is part of a Democrat plot to destroy the entire universe:

      Particles all support the radical left, or me, you know? And then there’s that weak force. You know, they call it weak because only the radical left will give it the time of day. Only the radical left. All particles that vote for Trump wouldn’t bother. That’s why those particle collider people can’t find neutrinos that vote for Trump. They always try to use the weak force to find neutrinos, but good people know that only radical left neutrinos would let themselves be seen, because they like weak things.