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I don’t think it’s just different information environments when there’s laws being passed to ban books and one side is constantly encouraging extrajudicial violence through stochastic terrorism. It’s just a regular ass rise of fascism.
One good thing about fascists is that they’re usually insecure for a reason and pop their heads up just to get beat down. It’s like Whac-a-Mole. But history shows they can get out of hand if no one is slapping them.
This is why Antifa is important. It’s not that every person in Antifa agrees on what comes next. You don’t have to agree with anyone else involved. Mostly, you won’t because Antifa people are like, “I’m a quasi-left anarcho-libertarian and a vegan who thinks chicken nuggets are allowed.” But if the greatest generation taught us anything, it’s that we all come together to open-hand slap fascists.
His point is that these people are hearing, all day every day, that liberals are trying to force their children to think and behave in a way that is anathema to them. They then go speak to their friends, and hear about their buddy's kid who went to college and came back a liberal.
Because of the information they are fed, they don't see that their friend's kid became a liberal because they became more educated - they think the college literally brainwashed them.
When everything you hear is this kind of falsehood that "makes sense" if you don't scrutinize it, many people are susceptible to believing in a reality that is just not true.
Yep. And I’m saying those people are aware of the alternative viewpoints and are choosing fascism.
I genuinely do not believe that, in many cases. I know a lot of these people - sunup to sundown they get precisely one message, and it is increasingly inaccurate, alarmist, and insane.
Human beings are gullible as fuck and this is how you manipulate people. I assure you millions of North Koreans really do believe that the North Korean army is fighting off US invasions left and right - it's the same underlying functionality as why a lot of MAGA believe the crazy shit they believe