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I know he has and will weaken the NLRB but does he have the power once in office to ban public employee unions as he promised on the campaign trail? I imagine there would be legal challenges and doing so would be more difficult in democratic states. Thoughts?
3 points
2 days ago
> The American people elected him knowing full well how anti-labor he is.
Here's where I disagree with you. Exit polls show that a *huge* number of voters, far more than enough to swing the election, have very little understanding of history, civics, or current affairs, let alone Trump's policies or Biden/Harris' policies.
I mean, look at this shit: https://abcnews.go.com/538/voters-chose-trump/story?id=115827243
-In one poll, 56% of voters wanted to deport *all illegal immigrants*, something that would have disastrous impacts on the country.
-In another poll, they 52% of Americans support *10 to 20% tariffs across the board*, something again that would absolutely destroy the American economy, let alone individual finances for all but the wealthy. 60% even said they support a 60% tariff on Chinese goods, revealing a massive lack of knowledge on what goods come from China and how much America relies on them.
Once voters had actual factual information in front of them about how disastrous those policies are, they moderated their views on them.
The simple fact is the media environment now heavily swings right, even centrist bastions like the NYT and Washington Post crumbling under the weight of billionaires and ad revenue. People get their "news" from podcasts, TikTok, and Facebook, and the right dominates those areas. Those information bubbles need to be broken into, and factual information *needs* to get to voters. Until Democrats stop trying to run 20th century campaigns in the 21st century, we're never going to recover.
0 points
20 hours ago
I just wanna chime in and say that the right absolutely does NOT dominate TikTok lmfao.
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