It's Not Cool To Be A Democrat. Elon Musk Likes It That Way.

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No matter how unpopular the president gets and no matter how monstrous Republicans make their policies and no matter how much vitriol there is for the American right wing, it’s never cool to be a Democrat. It’s one of the most dependable aspects of an otherwise fragmented and often-indecipherable political landscape over this past decade: You might support a Democrat for Congress or the presidency or local office, but being a Democrat – supporting Democrats – is not cool. It is the opposite of cool, in fact. In recent years it has been cool, even edgy, to back Republicans and to adopt their bad-faith stances on war and free speech and women’s sports. It’s a big draw for young men who want nothing more than to trigger their lib parents. Some of this – maybe much of it – has to do with the bloodless, technocratic, focus group-centric approach many mainline Democrats have taken during this awful era. As fellow citizens are being murdered by the president’s personal paramilitary force, elected Dems are posting about the price of avocados or whatever (they do this for a reason , by the way). But a lot of this phenomenon – despising Democrats no matter what they say or do – stems from an intentionally poisoned information environment designed to turn people against pro-democracy policies and ideas and keep liberals permanently on their back foot. Read more at BadFaithTimes.com .