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>Up until recently it was quite rare in the west for an election outcome to instil an end-of-days kind of fear in 50%+ of a country's population. That fear was
by gozur88 10y ago
>Up until recently it was quite rare in the west for an election outcome to instil an end-of-days kind of fear in 50%+ of a country's population.
That fear was based on falsehoods and instilled deliberately. It has more to do with a splintering media that allows people to marinate in their own biases than a change in US political institutions.
- peterashford 10y agoWith respect, that is BS. Non-American media has looked at the US election with less wailing and nashing of teeth than the US media, yet those journalists also have not been shy of talking about a new Fascism growing in the US. The media has not created Trump's statements nor his transition team appointments.
- gozur88 10y agoYes, and they're being idiotic. Fascism? Come on. What are these people going to say when actual fascists arrive?
- tnmrnis 10y agoI only can tell about german media. Their reporting was just as partisan (all for Hillary) as the "mainstream" U.S. media. It was less about giving the facts then about creating a sentiment.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoNon-US media may have to deal with actual Fascists. ( Is LePen an actual Fascist? Or is he just "sitting athwart history, yelling stop")? Since Brexit and the rise of LePen, I'm loath to call this a purely U.S., electoral-college-inspired "problem".