Unfortunately the benefit the right wing has is the more people consume slop and get pissed at manufactured controversies they create, the more it just swirls in a vortex of “shit” for everyone else. Notice that approximately zero American conservatives who aren’t capitalists (so “working class” non-business owners) seem to give a flying shit now days about anything that isn’t a “culture war” talking point. Or a derivative of one. There’s no like “serious” discussion on how to solve inflation or their wages becoming more and more dogshit over time. “Trump said tariffs will fix it! Yep! That’ll fix it. And he said we’re deporting the “illegals!” And making being trans illegal! Hell yeah!”
They’ve managed to just create this stew of shit where they create a “controversy” based on, I dunno, some sort of perceived “degeneration” of invented societal norms from the past, say “Yeah, we’re banning that. Also, taxes. Those are bad. When has the government helped you anyway? Also, the government is full of trans people. They want to tax you. Ban it all, right?”
It doesn’t matter because these people just want a distraction and someone to blame. The right wing slop bucket has endless opportunities to feed them “enemies.” Then their leaders, Trump, or whoever (he’s not unique. Maybe especially skilled at selling the bullshit though) come and say “I agree with you, long time listeners of SlopCast!” He feeds them the sloppiest slop, fucks something they probably rely on without knowing it (or will one day), and they’re just left smiling and giggling covered in shit. Like little hoglets.
The democrats have basically defined themselves as “We are the half measure party to republican full measures!” Aka, losers if you’re in the slop realm. Losers if you’re on the left. The only people who like the dems are those adjacent to slop world, suburban moms basically, who consume it but don’t like how it tastes. “Let’s kill… only half the immigrants?” is the conclusion they reach.
It’s rather unfortunate that “left wing” slop basically just distracts, for the most part. While right wing slop is actually required for their entire operation. The left relies on people organizing en masse and having leaders from within the working class that represent their fellow workers and are educated on class struggle. Podcasts probably aren’t pushing much there. The right relies on the spread of bullshit. 100 loud mouths spouting the dumbest shit you can imagine at people who sort of know everything is getting shittier and shittier and really want an enemy to blame… that’s ripe for the right wing to pluck. The left could, in theory, capitalize on the opportunity, and I think to an extent some are doing so currently. The question has long been floating in the ether though “What are the limits of radicalization via podcast/online content consumption generally?” So far, it seems to be extremely limited in reach. The people who consume the content often already agree with the host. It also sort of instills a feeling of “having done something” when you listen to someone else break down a situation. You feel like you addressed it. The anger starts to dissipate. That anger is essential to getting people to do stuff though. Something the right understands and exploits constantly.
Anyway, none of this is really unique. Just sort of observing stuff others have as well.
Unfortunately the benefit the right wing has is the more people consume slop and get pissed at manufactured controversies they create, the more it just swirls in a vortex of “shit” for everyone else. Notice that approximately zero American conservatives who aren’t capitalists (so “working class” non-business owners) seem to give a flying shit now days about anything that isn’t a “culture war” talking point. Or a derivative of one. There’s no like “serious” discussion on how to solve inflation or their wages becoming more and more dogshit over time. “Trump said tariffs will fix it! Yep! That’ll fix it. And he said we’re deporting the “illegals!” And making being trans illegal! Hell yeah!”
They’ve managed to just create this stew of shit where they create a “controversy” based on, I dunno, some sort of perceived “degeneration” of invented societal norms from the past, say “Yeah, we’re banning that. Also, taxes. Those are bad. When has the government helped you anyway? Also, the government is full of trans people. They want to tax you. Ban it all, right?”
It doesn’t matter because these people just want a distraction and someone to blame. The right wing slop bucket has endless opportunities to feed them “enemies.” Then their leaders, Trump, or whoever (he’s not unique. Maybe especially skilled at selling the bullshit though) come and say “I agree with you, long time listeners of SlopCast!” He feeds them the sloppiest slop, fucks something they probably rely on without knowing it (or will one day), and they’re just left smiling and giggling covered in shit. Like little hoglets.
The democrats have basically defined themselves as “We are the half measure party to republican full measures!” Aka, losers if you’re in the slop realm. Losers if you’re on the left. The only people who like the dems are those adjacent to slop world, suburban moms basically, who consume it but don’t like how it tastes. “Let’s kill… only half the immigrants?” is the conclusion they reach.
It’s rather unfortunate that “left wing” slop basically just distracts, for the most part. While right wing slop is actually required for their entire operation. The left relies on people organizing en masse and having leaders from within the working class that represent their fellow workers and are educated on class struggle. Podcasts probably aren’t pushing much there. The right relies on the spread of bullshit. 100 loud mouths spouting the dumbest shit you can imagine at people who sort of know everything is getting shittier and shittier and really want an enemy to blame… that’s ripe for the right wing to pluck. The left could, in theory, capitalize on the opportunity, and I think to an extent some are doing so currently. The question has long been floating in the ether though “What are the limits of radicalization via podcast/online content consumption generally?” So far, it seems to be extremely limited in reach. The people who consume the content often already agree with the host. It also sort of instills a feeling of “having done something” when you listen to someone else break down a situation. You feel like you addressed it. The anger starts to dissipate. That anger is essential to getting people to do stuff though. Something the right understands and exploits constantly.
Anyway, none of this is really unique. Just sort of observing stuff others have as well.