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In reply to the discussion: I haven't posted much lately... [View all]Jarqui
(10,527 posts)and I haven't found a good way to do that.
Bluesky and here, as much as I deeply appreciate both for enlightening me, is like preaching to the converted.
X filters my posts so few read them.
The discourse of democracy has been neutered. We have to chat with our own 'kind'. It seems harder to change minds because we can't reach them.
And the media, the great arbiter of democracy, is controlled to such an extent that a lot of journalism is dead. So Bluesky, DU, etc enlighten us but the other side doesn't get to read, hear or see much of that.
It feels like we have to wait two years to find out if they can tighten their control to make electing enough Democrats impossible.
I'm a fighter. I'd like to fight back. But it has to be the kind of a fight where I feel like I'm landing some punches.
I've been at it ~60 years. Never been in a situation like this.