Are G.O.P. Voters Tiring of the War on ‘Wokeness’?
Are G.O.P. Voters Tiring of the War on ‘Wokeness’?
New polling shows national Republicans and Iowa Republican caucusgoers were more interested in “law and order” than battling “woke” schools, media and corporations.
It would be nice if my country could have two functional political parties. Right now we have one that thinks if it does something once a decade it is too radical and the other is eating horse dewormer.
We have a conservative party and a proto-fascist party.
The vast majority of Americans are neither.
Edit: probably not vast, but an easy majority
This made me actually lol. Beautifully said
I think it would be nice if more moderates from each party were more prominent. Right now we really have mostly very right leaning republicans and very left leaning democrats pushing legislature, making news headlines etc.
I wish we had "very left leaning Democrats." We have corporatists.
Idk, from a global prospective the American "left" are center or slightly right and continue to shift rightward over time.
very left democrats made me lol
I would like to see people running for positions in government actually interested in government. The vast majority of running stuff is just running stuff. Taxes get collected, bills get paid, vacant positions filled, roads get built or repaired, cops don't murder unarmed minorities, and if you have time you get to fix maybe one big problem. It isnt romantic, you don't get interviewed by some talking head, or sued, or boycotted, it is just making sure that things basically work.
And I am not seeing that. I am seeing one party terrified of doing anything and another that pushes in some very radical position that causes devastation.
Recoiling in horror does not count as left leaning.
where are these left leaning democrats? at worse we have bernie and aoc who thinks people who work 40+ hours a week shouldnt be impoverished and that everyone deserves healthcare.
Ah yes, "very left" ideas like drone strikes, breaking strikes, and corporate welfare
Not entirely sure why all the downvotes were necessary but I guess this is just like Reddit. I was just commenting on what the issue seems like to me. I’m happy to hear differing opinions but “lol @ very left leaning” comments and downvotes are hardly constructive.
Two sides of the same coin, honestly.
Anti-"woke" means refusing to acknowledge the presence of systematic injustice.
"Law & Order" is the dogwhistle for cranking up the tangible effects of systematic injustice.
"Law & Order" = Straight Fascism, No Chaser
"Law & order" has always been code for putting [whatever marginalized group you don't like] in jail.
What would be fucking grand is if they tired of voting.
I'm hoping at least a significant number have since Trump has spent years now telling them that their votes didn't count anyway.
I'd be fine if they just would get over their lying, grifting, shit-slinging "leaders." Of course, while I'd like if there were "legitimate" conservative candidates, the truth is that I don't know what that would even look like. Eisenhower?
Yes, DeSantis schtick is getting old. It's not a real policy. Most people don't even have a clear view of what woke is even supposed to mean.
Even Trump doesn't care for it.
“I don’t like the term ‘woke’ because I hear ‘woke woke woke.’ It’s just a term they use, half the people can’t even define it, they don’t know what it is,” Donald Trump
You mean some of them are starting to remember that people are just free to have their own opinions on things? Who could have seen it coming...
Problem with the outrage/fear machine is its not sustainable. The brain gets tired of it eventually, particularly when there's some cognitive dissonance down there somewhere.
Can you get tired of something you don't under and can't define, even though for it's pretty easy to understand and define for a normal person?
They're just getting tried of hearing DeSantis say it 800 times a minute. And he can't even define it.
Can you define Assault Weapon?
And for your precise needs...
From the American Heritage Dictionary :
From the Meriam Webster Dictionary
Does that work for you?
Classic whataboutism
But whatabout what your mom does, down by the docks at night?
A semiautomatic or fully automatic rifle; machine gun; or weapon that fires a propelled explosive ordnance.
Hate, anger and the church pulpit are the main things that drive a right wing voter.
The word may change, as it has many times in the past, but the emotion behind it will never be abandoned.
Yeah, there's absolutely nothing new about the war on "wokeness", they just swap out the names every now and then
The PC Mob
The radical left
Antifa
SJWs
Socialists
Communists
They all mean the same thing in this context, but they know that people tire of specifics quickly, so they keep changing labels. I guess this study means that they'll likely pick a new word for the boogeyman soon
It's not even the church pulpit. It's whatever shit they're spewing on YouTube, newsmax, OAN, truth social, etc.
Some "church" pulpits are helping spew that stuff, too. (Not all churches, and I'd go so far as to say not real churches. Political campaign theaters masquerading as religious institutions.)
Easy to define:
Taryn Fenske, DeSantis’ Communications Director said “woke” was a “slang term for activism…progressive activism” and a general belief in systemic injustices in the country.
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/12/desantis-ron-woke-florida-officials/
Believe that there is inequality? You're part of the woke mob burning down cities and eating soup or whatever.
I don’t know, I’d say the term ‘racism’ (another word with multiple conflicting definitions) has hijacked political discourse more than ‘woke’.
I’m pretty sure the hijacking that the term racism has been through is the reason woke is used so much. Cause when you’re woke you think everything’s racism
They're tired of the current entry on the "then they came for" list.
They want to move on to the next largest minority group they can demonize.
Never lose sight of the fact that you're supposed to direct your politicians to fight for your issues, and not the other way around.
They’ve run out of trigger words and myopic symbolism.
I don't think they're actually beginning to care about other people's opinions and beliefs, I think, I PRAY, they've begun to realize that campaigning on the idea you're going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on enforcing their beliefs isn't what you pay taxes for.
I beg of them to realize exactly how much these republican bastards waste their OWN money on useless crap instead of the schools, infestructure, and societal improvements they're meant to be spent on.
Wokeness has been made into a bigger issue than needed.
never forget whose making it such a big issue.
The only way you could think it's an issue at all is if you have no idea what the word means.
Hell, I know I am...
Probably, that's why we'll see another simple word that the mouth breathers can say like a magic spell. A spell that will make all the smarter people that constantly tell them they are wrong go away
As a conservative, I'm fine with some broad anti-'woke' policies, but banning how people dress is absurd, and the insane focus from some candidates is wild.
Lol. Implying there are other things to bring "anti woke"
