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I no longer think there is a sincere effort to reduce extremism. When you view what platforms and governments are doing through the lens of their thinking they
by motohagiography 6y ago
I no longer think there is a sincere effort to reduce extremism.
When you view what platforms and governments are doing through the lens of their thinking they can create just enough managed extremism to use as a pretext for both crackdowns and further leverage, they are in fact succeeding magnificently.
The question isn't whether they will succeed at creating or suppressing extremism, but whether democratic governance will survive the hell they are about to unleash. When it all happens, remember to act surprised.
- randcraw 6y agoThere's advantage to promoting the imminent danger of an enemy in order to motivate voters to support your efforts to protect them from it. If the military doesn't have a big enemy, who needs a big military? Pretty much every candidate for high office I can remember has run on a platform of fighting SOMETHING (nazis, communists, terrorists, socialists, crime, etc). Extremism is good for business, if your business is self-promotion.