Warning signal to Dems: Younger voters
shifted away in 2022
Posted By: Dreadnought, 12/12/2022 3:48:47 PM
What? You mean young voters can’t relate to their “crazy … Uncle Joe,” as Barack Obama suggested in the Freudian Slip of the Year? The deuce you say. And get off my damn lawn, too. Nevertheless, the Associated Press takes note today that while Democrats won the youth vote as expected in the midterms, the margin turned out a lot narrower than expected. Not only did Republicans make some gains in this age demographic, younger voters appeared less enthusiastic and engaged. That should send up warning flares for Joe Biden and Democrat leadership, Will Weissert reports: Young voters who have been critical to Democratic successes in recent elections showed signs
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The Left cannot argue
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For years the Left has been able to construct a reality for people. They almost completely controlled what you could see, hear, and by extension think. They owned almost all the cultural means of production, which is an extremely effective tool. Their control was not comprehensive, and some people are natural skeptics, but the Left did a pretty good job of controlling The Narrative™.
Like a movie or a magic show, if you control what is being presented you can manipulate people’s sense of reality.
Of course some magicians are better and quite successful, just as some movies are better at getting you to suspend your disbelief. A great musician or storyteller
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She added: “This commutation is not based on any rehabilitative efforts by the individuals on death row. Instead, it reflects the recognition that the death penalty is immoral. It is an irreversible punishment
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I’m not going to write extensively about this because I respect your intellectual ability to see the obvious. Questions have been raised about why the Twitter File releases appear to have been structured in a fashion to protect government interests.
Well, the new Bari Weiss website that was set up to launch as an exclusive outcome of the Twitter File release, includes a current contributor and former 2020 control officer of the DOJ who would have facilitated the DHS/FBI contact with social media; the stuff that is transparently missing from the Twitter File releases.Yes, former AG Bill Barr is a content partner with Twitter File narrative engineer Bari Weiss.
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