After 2024, a bunch of people concluded that the right-wing bubble of X was the site of true wisdom & a reflection of the true America. Now I see a bunch of people basically doing the reverse, about Bluesky. This is not a healthy phenomenon & should be resisted.
Bluesky was right all along an...
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A tiny class of politically engaged people watch these swings & say, "oh, everyone agrees with my side!" Then next election, "oops, everyone agrees with the other side!" But the basic condition of the electorate is angry ignorance, not any consistent ideology. It's flailing all the way down.
The very basic root model of politics that politically engaged people, pundits & pols alike, cling to -- "listen to voters, do what they want, they will reward you" -- is broken. It's a mirage. No one knows how to cut through or diminish the miasmatic discontent. "Results" don't seem to do it.
I don't know what to do with this semi-nihilist view of things in the long term, but in the short term, I think it just suggests: do everything you can to advance the things you believe are good while you have power. "Savvy" is an illusion. Just do good things, as much & as fast as possible.
My basic theory of the electorate is that it is immersed in a diseased information environment that feeds it constant outrage & grievance & so it is in a state of constant miasmatic discontent, which redounds against whoever happens to be in power. That means it will work against Dems next time.