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AJ Milne's avatar

My unified field theory of current US politics (and a lot of Western politics, alarmingly) is that the right wing is now so reliant upon rampant disinformation that it’s a bit like some self-induced hallucinatory mental illness. And that there’s some kinda cautionary tale here. People who live by lying, there is always this risk: they get pretty confused about reality themselves. Trump’s bizarre otherworldly tirades onstage two nights ago came out in large part because Harris masterfully drew them out, but this has been a problem for them a while. They have enough people who believe them far enough that sometimes they can win, but if too many people not yet inside their bubble are paying attention at the wrong time, it’s a disaster. They look nuts because, well, they effectively are. And they did it to themselves.

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This is the kind of lack of attachment to reality only possible when you have a captive rightwing media human centipede. It also helps when this centipede has segments installed in the MSM (of course that is pretty much Republican-owned.)

Therefore, President Klan Robe gets to benefit by virtue of the dark complex of McCain's and Murc's Laws, where even though Kamala Harris had to perform PERFECTLY to get even grudging positive coverage, all Klan Robe had to do was show up.

The Murc's Law dynamic came up in fact because there were people upset that Kamala Harris didn't have *details* for her plans. In a "debate" format that is basically all about speedrunning the Dozens. Now we're supposed to be having serious policy debate in one minute?

Democrats always get dinged for having policy because so much of this news coverage isn't about information; it's about entertainment. And abstracting complex policy into a minute is nearly impossible, because in the real world, shit happens and there are different conditions that may be needed.

And that's where Murc's Law really shines, because even then only the Democrats get held accountable for not only having detailed policy proposals but then they are the only ones held to those promises.

The MSM of course helps this along with their singleminded focus on whatever little bullshit they want to focus on with the Dems, and there is not the same desire to drum President Klan Robe out of the race like they did Biden (this is the source of the consistently low polling which made it untenable for Biden to continue).

All these outlets assert, of course, after Kamala Harris absolutely vivisects President Klan Robe that it won't change anything. And well of course it can't change if you keep asserting that in your coverage. All that and again Harris had to be PERFECT. I think the crowd sizes salvo might have even done psychological damage, and then she laid on tick damage with a Confuse status after that.

But here we are. In the end we all know the job we have to do this November. Bring a friend to the polls, and be sure to check on your registration, friends. Republicans are doing their best to trash it.

www.vote.org, www.iwillvote.com . You know the drill!

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