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Does he ever talk about anything relevant at these events? I would be extremely bored at one of these.
He tries to, then almost immediately gets sidetracked. He also talked yesterday about how he was far more attractive than Kamala Harris.
Boomers these days go to political events all hopped up on Zim zams and popplers to listen to the politician they love talk about how all politicians are gross and politics is dumb.
Not to disagree with you, but I also see a lot of younger folks and many people who are surely sober. So I'm always wondering, are they going in expecting to hear all this bullshit? Because if I were them I would never want to attend again.
I was being a bit factitious; I suspect the majority are sober and haven't had an education in rhetoric & propaganda techniques, epistemology, critically analysing mass media, etc and are socially bubbled to prevent exploring opposing views and perspectives.
They aren't going to learn something new or openly debate some concepts, they go to hear what they already believe. It's why fascist politicians sound so similar to some religious preachers, they act as an authority to subjectively define the ethics of the in/out groups and questioning their authority puts you in the out group.
I mean, look at the faces behind him.