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I have no evidence, only gut feeling, but I believe the "threat to Western liberal democracy" as defined by "Trump, Brexit, and rise of populism and extremism"
by dandare 8y ago
I have no evidence, only gut feeling, but I believe the "threat to Western liberal democracy" as defined by "Trump, Brexit, and rise of populism and extremism" is not caused by the Credit Crunch but by the decade of Rusia's poisoning the public discourse with its fake news factories and troll farms.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoAmerica has plenty of homegrown fake news factories and troll farms. They've been haunting AM radio since before the web.
- toasterlovin 8y agoFWIW, it's incredibly patronizing to dismiss the political concerns of half the population by essentially saying that they're rubes who have been duped by the Russians.
- dandare 8y agoIs my comment really patronizing and dismissing?
- toasterlovin 8y agoIt is. And, FWIW, Russian bots/trolls/whatever seem to have been as equally active in pushing left wing issues as right wing issues.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoBut "the rise of populism and extremism" can equally well apply to the left. My personal opinion is that the economic crisis make things worse, and made a lot of people discontent with the current system, but that Russia has been very busily trying to make them more discontent, and trying to push them either to the right or left extreme. The concerns are real, the problems are real, but the trolling is making things considerably worse in terms of political stability.