Sorry for the downvotes, you're exactly right. The far right in western countries (being directly funded in some cases by The Kremlin) realizes that propaganda

Sorry for the downvotes, you're exactly right. The far right in western countries (being directly funded in some cases by The Kremlin) realizes that propaganda has long been and remains an effective technique to swing elections. The rest of society is struggling to admit this reality and face it. In the examples of both Trump and Brexit, the majority of people who voted for the eventual result reveal to pollsters that they did so based on erroneous beliefs that happen to have been supported by these propaganda campaigns. Had the public understood the truth about Brexit's economic implications or Hillary Clinton's debunked conspiracies, those elections would certainly have flipped. One side is actively pushing the public away from the truth, and the resulting ignorance is swaying elections. There is nothing partisan about the above observations by eli_gottleib. They are true observations. The forceful assertion that the truth is now partisan is exactly part of the same problem that society now faces. A distorted symmetry of blame means that one side of a debate can act in bad faith and lie constantly and people will line up to call anyone who'd question them "partisan."