Recent commencement speakers including Google's Eric Schmidt have been booed for praising AI and encouraging students to use it as they embark on their careers.
All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can’t maintain a quality of life at all.
Agree with you on this, itsomg been a question of "how bad does it have to get before people stop swallowing bullshit. We still aren’t there yet, so it hasn’t fallen apart.
This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point. It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There’s more too it than “we convince them to vote against their own best interest”.
The majority of people, voters anyway, have supported the bullshit and lies which is exactly how we got here.
The majority of voters don’t like the current regime and are fighting it in through the avenues they are aware of.
But here’s the main problem.
The propaganda isn’t how we got here. The fact is, the conservative party in this country has been desperately chipping away at public power for decades. They enacted policy and legislation over a period of years (over 100 years if we’re gonna be honest about this), in order to defang the public. The main problem with that is that propaganda only works when you can control the discourse and that’s the reason the big push is happening now. This is their last ditch attempt to get things they want done and cash out. They do not plan to be here for the aftermath.
The average MAGA voter is indoctrinated with the propaganda but that’s not really why Trump won. He made promises that appealed to their basest/hateful natures and those are the majority of the promises he kept. He won because of complacency on the part of people who opposed him (including voters and voter eligible people who opposed him), and the hatred of the people who supported him. Some of that hatred comes from the propaganda. But some of it just comes from the fact that the problem is a systemic part of our country as an institution and that’s the major thing you leave out. Along with the complacency and the hatred, he also won because desperate people trying to cash in and cash out backed him. There’s a greed component you also left out.
The crazy thing is that greed component also exists in the voters.
Pretending that it’s simply a matter of using propaganda to get people to vote against their own self interest is only part of the picture.
They were voting for things they view as part of their self interest.
Agree with you on this, itsomg been a question of "how bad does it have to get before people stop swallowing bullshit. We still aren’t there yet, so it hasn’t fallen apart.
The majority of people, voters anyway, have supported the bullshit and lies which is exactly how we got here.
This is an oversimplified version of events.
The majority of voters don’t like the current regime and are fighting it in through the avenues they are aware of.
But here’s the main problem.
The propaganda isn’t how we got here. The fact is, the conservative party in this country has been desperately chipping away at public power for decades. They enacted policy and legislation over a period of years (over 100 years if we’re gonna be honest about this), in order to defang the public. The main problem with that is that propaganda only works when you can control the discourse and that’s the reason the big push is happening now. This is their last ditch attempt to get things they want done and cash out. They do not plan to be here for the aftermath.
The average MAGA voter is indoctrinated with the propaganda but that’s not really why Trump won. He made promises that appealed to their basest/hateful natures and those are the majority of the promises he kept. He won because of complacency on the part of people who opposed him (including voters and voter eligible people who opposed him), and the hatred of the people who supported him. Some of that hatred comes from the propaganda. But some of it just comes from the fact that the problem is a systemic part of our country as an institution and that’s the major thing you leave out. Along with the complacency and the hatred, he also won because desperate people trying to cash in and cash out backed him. There’s a greed component you also left out.
The crazy thing is that greed component also exists in the voters.
Pretending that it’s simply a matter of using propaganda to get people to vote against their own self interest is only part of the picture.
They were voting for things they view as part of their self interest.