I've not checked the legitimacy of the photo, but the premise is important to note
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Lots of factors makes that a silly equivalence. The left voters tends to be better informed, so it isn't as effective. The people who are driven to hoard wealth are more likely sociopathic, and individualism and "I got mine" mentality goes hand in hand. The group that hoards wealth tends to be the group that has hoarded wealth that can be used to further make it easier to hoard wealth, which among many things, is spending money on propaganda. Consider the first statement again, which is probably the most controversial - left voters are voting so, in spite of a disproportionate amount of propaganda from private interests. All of this is backed up by statistics.
The internet also allows people to be informed cheaply. There are huge opportunities for the left.
The left doesn't benefit billionaires who own your social media outlets and media. Why would they ever promote people to be informed or push policies to the left? It will always be easier to push to the side that enriches those who own the platforms that could elicit change i.e. it will always be easy to push politics to the right then to the left. Social media and the internet are no exception and if anything help amplify that effect.
You are on Lemmy. Why has the left not made this platform popular?
The general population will always stick to whatever is most comfortable and familiar. Even reddit was never a mainstream social media platform compared to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. why would you think an open source federated version, that is harder to sign up for then what the general populace is used too already, would ever become popular in this time of tech illiteracy? Not to mention its lack of funding and the fact almost every big instance on the platform would defederate from any instance which had a backing from a major corporation. This platform is never going to see the same adoption rate of the major platforms out there, even if for some reason political parties on the left decided they didnt care about, bribes, campaign contributions and lobbying from corporations its just to complicated for the simple minds of the masses to join.
And yet the platform could be easier and less enshittified because it doesn't have to generate profits, so that the general population makes the change.
I believe that it will happen in the long run but I am baffled by the low left investments. It makes me question if the left could ever hold power if they got it somehow.