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Its very simple for the other side to push their agenda and cater to their crowd "See , we told you the other side was crazy" 911 truthers & marxists have alw
by IG_Semmelweiss 6y ago
Its very simple for the other side to push their agenda and cater to their crowd
"See , we told you the other side was crazy"
911 truthers & marxists have always existed, however its only when the "mainstream" of the other side chose to hand the fringe a megaphone, that they came to the fore.
This was not done for debate or charity. It was to score cheap political points in the age of clickbait. Extra Bonus: they got to extrapolate the extreme over 50% of the US population, and by consequence, to expand their potential eyeball audience
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoInteresting. That explains why all the crazies have the microphone lately. The mainstream of the other side is giving it to them, to use them as a freak show. And the reason it's blowing up now is because the media monopoly is over. Back when "the media" was ABC, CBS, NBC, AP, UPI, and then-centrist New York Times and Washington Post, nobody was giving the crazies the microphone, on either side. But when Fox and talk radio came on the right, and CNN on the left (and many of the former-center media moved left), then there were people with a slant, and therefore with a motivation to make the other side look silly. But these people (on both sides) need to reconsider what they're doing. They're making the other side look silly to the mainstream, but they're also helping the fringe of the other side recruit. That may not be a very wise policy...
- colejohnson66 6y agoI believe what helped Trump win was all the (left leaning) news sites covering him saying, “look how stupid he is”, but then some saw it and sided with him. By giving him a platform, they helped put him in power.