By any measure, the Democratic Party will have a brutal year. At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if Republicans gain a veto-proof majority in the House. It’s that bad. Joe Biden is that bad. However, the fight continues. The progressive left is gearing up for a battle over the 2022 midterm elections and has quietly set up social media communities to support fight the Republican Party’s messaging. Will this work given high inflation, high gas prices, the supply chain crisis, the border crisis, the war in Ukraine, and Joe Biden’s approval ratings being generally warm garbage? Probably not. None of what the left has put out in its enormous magazine of talking points will resonate as we enter a recession. Yes, a recession is very likely this year. Biden is bleeding all over, especially among independent, black and women voters. Joe Dementia says he doesn’t believe the polls because his mind is made of oatmeal, but for people who don’t drool over vegetables, it looks like it’s going to be a total disaster in November.
Still, Axia reported on this secret network of social media sites which are ready for the transition season:
Progressive strategists have quietly built a enormous network of social media communities in political battleground states that can activate ahead of elections and political fights, Axios has learned…
The network, which operates under the name Real Voices Media, uses apolitical, non-ideological content to build audiences. It then uses the crowd on behalf of customers, which experts say is an effective persuasion strategy. The beneficiaries are President Biden and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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According to Holdridge, these are just a few of the more than 400 sites that RVM oversees, which have a total audience of approximately 1.9 million people.
Founded in 2019, RVM received early investment from Will Robinson, a Democratic strategist and partner at The New Media Firm, but is not affiliated with the firm, Holdridge said. She declined to name other investors.
Since 2019, thousands of ads have appeared on RVM’s Facebook and Instagram pages, and $500,000 has been spent on paid posts on those platforms, according to political advertising data from Meta, the social media’s parent company.
How it works: RVM oversees the digital assets under its umbrella. However, their core content is created by creators recruited and trained to initially build a following on social media focused on specific states and topics.
Many of them focus on politically competitive states such as Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Nobody knows who is behind it. The publications mentioned did not respond to comment, and their confined liability company, Star Spangled Media, was formed last month.
Axios added that these pages consist of apolitical content, ordinary, banal posts that are of common interest, but it is clear that these pages are crafted to be tools of persuasion. Is this enough? Young voters also hate Biden, especially because he has avoided paying off student loan debt. I feel like this was his way of attracting the attention of younger voters, even though it wasn’t a viable policy. We do not intend to support the most privileged class in education. This won’t happen. Millions of Americans took out loans, worked through school, and paid them off. This is not an insurmountable task. This is called adulthood. And if the “woke” left, who cannot live with their degree of “whining like a little son of a bitch”, receives financial aid, every person who has paid off their loans should also receive it. To avoid a massive populist backlash, this should at least be considered, as the left’s proposal offers no relief to families who have saved and done the right thing.
Canceling student loan debt is a great way to ensure the populist moment, the Trump moment, becomes a enduring fixture. So please – go ahead and make my day.
All this is not for nothing. It could support some Senate races, but it’s a lost cause for the House. Democrats only have a four-seat majority. No matter what happens in January 2023, we will have a Republican House.
