Another election take: Right wing bro culture emerged
I WENT BACK TO A CONTRIBUTION I MADE ON A THREAD HERE TWO WEEKS AGO. I WAS SEEING SOMETHING THAT THE MEDIA, DEM/TRADITIONAL POLLSTERS AND OLDER PEOPLE WERE NOT SEEING. SADLY, THE ANSWERS TO WHAT HAPPENED TUESDAY IS THE MATURING OF QANON-LIKE BRO CULTURE AMPED UP BY THE ALT-RIGHT MOVEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, OFTEN FINANCED BY OLIGARCHS AND FOREIGN PROPAGANDISTS. The response below was on a thread frustrated that the polls were tight and everyone seemed very confident Kamala was going to win.
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I dunno. I am not on Ticktock but I am on YouTube and let me tell you, the right wing has taken over social media like they did AM radio. Any podcast I see I look at the comparative numbers and right wing sites command more likes and comments than left-wing tends to.
My big red flag example of this is when Harris went on Call Her Daddy. The media fawned on her bold choice to go in such a popular podcast! Yet around the same time,Trump went on a lesser known comedy podcast, Flagrant. The YouTube numbers aren’t even in the same ballpark—Trump’s views and the attention it received was 10 : 1. (Trump went hard for the incel/bro culture vote since he is so popular with the UFC type of male, also Rogan’s crowd. Many of them had never been political before.) This also ties into the very real issue of the glass ceiling guards that would “never vote for a woman”. The misogyny and racial animosity barrier is very real.
The algorithms are also very geared to right leaning media. I am led all the time to these sites and in no way would my viewing indicate anything other than left leaning yet I still get so many right ones. Ugh! But even the lesser known shows are pulling in more actual views than most cable news. The world and a new generation has shifted how they get information.
The Arab/Israel rift is another thing that really hurt Dem support, which is crazy considering Trump is going to be fine with anything that Bibi does. Yet Dems “are funding this” so young people are divided, which hurts turnout if they stay home.
My big hope is that many of the numbskull, victim-loving “bros” keep with tradition and just don’t vote, despite their insane Trump enthusiasm. We will see what the Madison Square Garden rally does. (Trump is all over sports, too.) That is why Eloon bribing them just may work. But all this would explain Las Vegas breaking for Trump.
I am more than happy to be wrong, but I think there are areas that polling may not be accounting for. It’s the underworld of the Internet that makes me nervous and it’s a world I don’t understand because I’m way too old. But it’s a breeding ground for guilibles and damaged people for sure, otherwise known as “the base”. It’s how Qanon became a thing out of nowhere that attracted so many women because they got lured in on the issue of child trafficking and then they went off the deep end and got indoctrinated in right wing conspiracies.
I am in a solid blue state but I hope our compadres in the blue wall holds strong! But we should not negate the Trump enthusiasm., which I know is senseless given he is a treasonous, grifting, dementia, criminal.