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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher absolutely says why 72 million voted for Trump........... [View all]Caliman73
(11,764 posts)He loves to say that "Democrats do this...." or "Liberals do this...."
He said himself in the segment, "You get the constant drip from the media of stories...." implying that anecdote is reality. I would agree, that it becomes reality when that is the story that the media is constantly portraying. The media constantly portrays the controversy of what some person, or group says about what some celebrity said or did and apologized for. That is not a "liberal" plank. The liberal plank is to respect differences and treat people with dignity. The media, to sell ad space relies on the most incendiary or controversial points to pull in viewers. Naturally, that becomes the norm for people who consume that media.
Maher relies on the same fake outrage to sell his point of view as if it is somehow rational. He provides the anecdotal extreme examples and rails against them. It is exactly the thing that the right does. Bernie Sanders advocates for Medicare for all and so Joe Biden is a socialist and controlled by the radical left.
72 million people voted for Trump for a variety of reasons. The most likely reasons are that they agree with Trump's disgusting attitudes towards others, or that they bought into all the rightwing bullshit about what "liberals" are about that has been fed to them by right wing media and extended by corporate, mainstream media in their effort to be "fair and balanced".