If you satirically use their words to describe RussiaGate and 2016 it will force them to accept that fortifying means rigging
You're completely missing how people "work". Here's an explanation, and it's important that you understand this.
Has it not seemed strange to you why the left keeps making ridiculous claims or using ridiculous terminology and yet somehow keep winning? It's because they know how to fight the culture war. Satire doesn't work on them because that requires humiliation which requires feeling shame, and they clearly don't feel that. The way to fight the culture war is to realize that every human on this planet is biologically wired to be mentally lazy. The brain behaves as if there's a scarcity of energy which means that it doesn't think critically even 50% of the time, much less 100%. The result is that people absorb their surroundings (culture) without much critical thought, including investing the energy necessary to detect sarcasm. So when they see both sides claiming the election was "fortified" instead of rigged, that's what they'll believe because the sarcasm or mockery eludes them.
Why do we live in clown world? Because our side spends far too much time repeating the left's talking points and not promoting their own. We're not playing against the left, we're playing against the public and their tendency to be mentally lazy. The left understands that so much better than the right seems to.
You're completely missing how people "work". Here's an explanation, and it's important that you understand this.
Has it not seemed strange to you why the left keeps making ridiculous claims or using ridiculous terminology and yet somehow keep winning? It's because they know how to fight the culture war. Satire doesn't work on them because that requires humiliation which requires feeling shame, and they clearly don't feel that. The way to fight the culture war is to realize that every human on this planet is biologically wired to be mentally lazy. The brain behaves as if there's a scarcity of energy which means that it doesn't think critically even 50% of the time, much less 100%. The result is that people absorb their surroundings (culture) without much critical thought, including investing the energy necessary to detect sarcasm. So when they see both sides claiming the election was "fortified" instead of rigged, that's what they'll believe because the sarcasm or mockery eludes them.
Why do we live in clown world? Because our side spends far too much time repeating the left's talking points and not promoting their own. We're not playing against the left, we're playing against the public and their tendency to be mentally lazy. The left understands that so much better than the right seems to.
Saved. This should be its own post