When issues give way to "personality politics" it's bad news, and speaking of bad news, the media are all over personalities because they are good for clicks/readership etc. Facts are boring.
What we have seen lately is (speaking of the elephant in the room) the result of decades or hate speech and brainwashing of the cult variety.
It happened when "fairness" went out the door and money marched in with "Citizens United".
Seriously, you don't have to be a philosopher. If "entities" have a "free speech" right (as in money, boatloads of money) then why don't they have a vote. Not a one. Citizens have a right to vote. Period.
There is nothing to compare the current situation with because the world changed.
Section 230 of the CDA has already been shattered by a judge who ruled that TIkTok's algorithm was making editorial decisions and not "merely passing through" user generated content. Well, that's a work just begun, but MAYBE hate speech may see limits someday.
Hate, racism, misogyny, anti-semitism and so on are powerful forces that every wannabe Hitler uses. Fascist playbook. They read it, and the next step is control of the armed forces. I am not about to see a repeat, and I always believed in the Democratic Party as a populist party in the sense of standing up for the average person's interests rather than the wealthy. The fact that the party has NOT engaged in hate and racism (though the haters and racists say that it does, in their perverted logic) is to its credit, but must "Speak more like Bernie" in speaking more like it acts. [flame wars begin]
I am no psychologist, but do see the old Democratic "we're fighting for the average working person" message as a powerful one, and one that Joe Biden has acted upon powerfully. I heard it from the Harris-Walz team, but they had little time to get it across.
I have an ongoing study of activist sites and tools and will share my preliminary findings very shortly. It will be "incomplete" in many ways, but the journey starts now.
You can't counter brainwashing and perverted logic by speaking its language. Get a message across that is in a different language altogether.
One of equality, the dignity of all people and of fairness as opposed to a few getting all the benefits and being immune to the laws that we are supposed to uphold. F--- their culture wars. Like all fascists, they put up smokescreens and divide and conquer. The "oppressed white person" myth is sick and twisted.
To borrow a phrase from the 60's, GO BACK TO AFRICA ---- Fans of apartheid, that is.
The shadow of apartheid South Africa in America.
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