Moore didn't offer concluding remarks or bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted "Shame!" during his exit.

Moore didn’t offer concluding remarks or bid good night to the rowdy crowd as they chanted “Shame!” during his exit.

Moore was repeatedly grilled and interrupted as he tried to respond to people’s questions that stemmed from their frustration over Medicaid cuts, rural hospitals, tariffs, immigration, abortion and the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C.

Respite came briefly when people appeared to approve of Moore’s comment that erasing history “is a bad thing” when he was asked about an ongoing effort to revise exhibits at the Smithsonian and efforts by the White House to ensure they align with President Donald Trump’s vision.

Asked what he viewed as Trump’s “most meaningful” accomplishment, Moore began praising his border security policies, which was met by laughter as town hall-goers jeered, “Next question.”

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    4 days ago

    Convince them to vote

    In 2016, 90% of young Americans reported an interest in politics and 80% intended to vote, but only 43% did so, John Holbein, associate professor of public policy, politics and education at UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, noted in his 2020 book, “Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic Action.”

    • zbyte64@awful.systems
      1·
      2 days ago

      Convincing people to vote for them is the job of the party, not their supporters. The supporters can only repeat the messaging the party sends out, if that messaging is unpopular then no amount of time and money from the supporters is going to win the election.

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 day ago

        It sounds like you’re giving up! Would you like me to put together a plan for you to just flee and abdicate any responsibility you might have felt before?

        • zbyte64@awful.systems
          11·
          1 day ago

          There are many forms of activism and it is important to keep in mind that everyone exists with different abilities in different contexts. Judging others because they aren’t adopting the same strategy as you isn’t going to build a winning coalition. Here’s a quote from someone who was murdered by the SS and was reflecting on how stupidity is as much a sociological phenomenon:

          It will really depends on whether those in power expect more from people’s stupidity than from their inner independence and wisdom.

          • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, After Ten Years

          The idea that the DNC only has a messaging problem is to say we expect more from people’s stupidity than from their inner independence or wisdom (ie Voters just need to be educated). A party that respects people would listen and respond to issues like Gaza or wealth inequality. The reason this strategy of educating voters doesn’t work is because it isn’t a problem with the intellect but of their oppression. Only by liberating fellow voters will they be able to act independently.

          • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 day ago

            Are you fucking judging me? How about you go fuck off and stop telling me how to act?

            Dick.

            edit: I realize this post is aggressive and anti-social but I’m not going to have some passive leftist intellectual tell me that I’m the fucking problem. If it gets me banned, so be it.