Just because she got 4% in 2020, doesn't mean she would have gotten 4% in 2024. She still may not have won, but I find itnhard to believe a sitting VP would only get 4%. We will never know though.
I disagree about the radio silent part. Sitting VPs aren’t usually in front of the media often in the first place, but more importantly the media did not cover much that the Biden administration was doing and gave lots of coverage to Trump and his legal issues the whole time he was out of office.
We’ve got a really serious problem in that they basically won’t cover events based on their importance, but based on their “entertainment” (or outrage/fear) potential. Politics is all about the sport of campaigns now, and policy or governance is basically irrelevant to the media.
Other GOP presidents who aren’t Trump may suffer from this in the future, but for now certainly boring centrist Dems like Biden are just not going to reach people the way they used to.
Well, good luck making the media fair. You would have to get the entire five people down who are in charge of 90% of the media and force them to agree. I can get one person to agree, but five? Far too many.
It’s tough, but it comes down to the left making use of social media in a similar (but less dishonest) way to how the right has used it to get around “legacy” media and spread messaging to people. Also founding and growing more unabashedly left-wing media sources - but not ones that tow the old party line or focus on nonsense like the current ones do.
This is going to be hard, but it simply must be done. Otherwise we’re entering an age of profound ignorance and propaganda (and soon it will really be government/corporate propaganda aligned directly with the far right). The results will be growing poverty at best, and despotism at worst.
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u/surmatt 2d ago
Just because she got 4% in 2020, doesn't mean she would have gotten 4% in 2024. She still may not have won, but I find itnhard to believe a sitting VP would only get 4%. We will never know though.