Facts Don’t Matter
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More on the Walz thing–Melissa Gira Grant tells liberals something they must understand–FACTS DO NOT MATTER. This is the maybe the most important thing out there. You will NEVER educate people out of the politics we face. This is a strategy of complete failure. I know how much liberals love their facts. Look, I’d like to live in that world too. But that’s not the world we live in. Bullshit–that’s the world we live in. Figure it out. Grant on why this matters:
It should be a wake-up call: Misinformation and disinformation have potentially pushed a state governor out of seeking reelection, and appear to be on the cusp of taking away childcare from more than 20,000 children in Minnesota, thanks to the Trump administration halting federal funds over these fictions. Now the administration is reportedly planning to cancel funding for children and other social services to four additional Democrat-led states, premised on the same stories about immigrants stealing. These tales are perfectly suited to Trump’s politics of grievance, defining a set of enemies who are always stealing what’s rightfully the property and province of “real” Americans.
Misinformation and disinformation are how these people attain and build power. It’s why they fight to protect communication and political channels in which to push lies, scapegoating, and propaganda. It’s why you can’t fact-check your way out of a conspiracy theory or disinformation. This was true in 2016, when Trump was a joke. It was true in 2020, when Trump was a loser. It’s true now, with Trump in power again. There is still no coordinated response to misinformation that appears capable of confronting that truth: Lies are powerful. So long as there are people who can benefit from conspiracy theories, there will be people pushing them.
There is one answer–push our own propaganda. That’s one of the key ways out of this. Does it matter if the information is true? No, not if it forces Stephen Miller out of government, let’s say.
You want to play by rules that don’t matter anymore, keep losing. I know that admitting this is too far for a lot of liberals. Well, sorry, but that’s the reality.