In my experience, people who don't read serious news almost all repeat neoreactionary talking points (including chaos in the cities, etc.). I was even talking t

In my experience, people who don't read serious news almost all repeat neoreactionary talking points (including chaos in the cities, etc.). I was even talking to someone from Ghana the other day who said people in Ghana also repeat those things about the US - e.g., how crazy NYC is. The correlation between neoreactionary disinformation campaigns (e.g., chaos in cities was the theme of the 2020 GOP convention, though overshadowed by Covid) and people's beliefs are too great to think it's coincidence. The neoreactionary influence campaigns dominate the country and much of the world, IME. While the mainstream incumbent powers are living in a fantasy world of their now-historical world, a world where the serious news media being central to public conversation. They don't realize that most of the real influence is happening over social media, through these disinformation campaigns. I suspect the upcoming election will be a devestating loss - but not an awakening. Incumbents (think of Blackberry in technology) will crew their ship to the bottom of the ocean.