I keep doubting whether to say what I really think here, as so much seems so reprehensible. So I tone it down, and bite my tongue. I felt like posting that it’s our basic moral obligation to donate hundreds of dollars to the Democratic Party and to vote a straight Democratic ticket, every two years. But then I fear I’m being too extreme, and I don’t post it.
Then I read something like this, from today’s Washington Post:
Elon Musk, right-wing figures push misinformation about Pelosi attack
Elon Musk and a wide range of right-wing personalities cobbled together misreporting, innuendo and outright falsehoods to amplify misinformation about last week’s violent assault on Paul Pelosi to their millions of online followers.
A forum devoted to former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon’s right-wing radio show alerted its 78,000 subscribers to “very strange new details on Paul Pelosi attack.” Roger Stone, a longtime political consigliere to former president Donald Trump, took to the fast-growing messaging app Telegram to call the assault on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband an “alleged attack,” telling his followers that a “stench” surrounded mainstream reporting about the Friday break-in that left Pelosi, 82, hospitalized with a skull fracture and other serious injuries.
The skepticism didn’t stay in right-wing echo chambers but seeped also into the feeds of popular online personalities, including Musk, Twitter’s new owner. “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye,” he wrote Sunday morning, pointing his 112 million followers to a sensationalist account of the episode published by a site known for spreading right-wing misinformation before deleting the tweet several hours later. […]
Politics is so exhausting. I donated my hundreds of dollars, and minutes ago I got back from voting a straight Democratic ticket, and then I read this, and it still doesn’t feel like enough.
So, there, I said it. It’s our basic moral obligation to donate hundreds of dollars to the Democratic Party and vote a straight Democratic ticket every two years. This is where we’ve come. I’m sorry to see us losing democracy, such as we had it.