• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Most Americans oversimplify every issue to being afraid of commies hiding in the bushes like they did in the 1950s. The major differences now are a much shorter attention span and much more superficial analytical process - spending as little time as possible taking in information before making an immediate value judgement and mentally swiping left or right.

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      This predates apps with left or right swiping features and goes back all the way back to the founding days of Fox News. The whole point was to gamify/sportify politics with pure propaganda to the point where you could never get enough political will to actually remove a president again. Which comes with building the demon of the Others narrative and everything else we know today.