Comment on This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months agoYeah I mean instead you just had an entire country pretty much unanimously vote for Reagan economics that we’re still feeling the brutal affects of today while the dissenting voices were just entirely unheard.
People are louder, they aren’t stupider.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I don’t think that proves your point at all.
When people elected Reagan, they saw an articulate, charismatic man offering easy to digest solutions that sounded plausible. They had no context to know that neoliberalism was bullshit that only made rich people richer with each successive failure.
Any dissenting voices were (at best) saying “I don’t agree with their guess, so here is my guess instead”.
Meanwhile, what do we have now? Donald fucking Trump. A man who is barely coherent. A man whose inherited wealth has shielded him not just from multiple dogshit business decisions, but extremely serious charges of being a traitor to his country. And of course, a staunch neoliberal in the modern “don’t say it out loud” movement.
Every piece of information people needed to make a better choice was out there and freely available. There was no excuse for not knowing who he was or that his economic ideas had failed to deliver on their promises thousands of times the world over.
But people continue to enthusiastically support him. They would kill and die for a man who is openly revolted by having to interact with them.
Yes, they’re louder.
But they’re stupider too.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Doesn’t that just show young people are informed to the point that American conservatives have to resort to general silliness and outrage to get their shitty base of mainly older generations to vote?
I think you’re confusing the loud minority for the majority
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Andrew Tate is a role model for millions of boys and young men.
Okay, maybe they don’t have the context needed to understand that he’s just a rapist who is desperately trying to pretend his father’s abuse was love in disguise.
But the man claimed he was the world’s first trillionaire. That’s the kind of lie a literal toddler would tell, yet grown men believed it.
Are they the majority? No, probably not.
But I can’t remember another group of people so deliberately, unapologetically stupid as modern reactionaries, nor a time where they’ve wielded so much power.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
No, hard stop. Not even fucking close. Your examples are confirmation bias.
Do you not remember the Christian groups of the… 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s? They always have, you just weren’t informed via the internet about it.