I used to think like you but the rise of the extreme right wing (and extreme left wing) in Europe and the US has convinced me I was wrong. You're right a kid w

I used to think like you but the rise of the extreme right wing (and extreme left wing) in Europe and the US has convinced me I was wrong. You're right a kid with a hundred dollars of hardware and an internet connection might be able to out-meme the CIA but the problem is that the messages that get amplified seem to always be the most extreme. Moderate messages don't generate as much interest and this leads to an increase polarization of political discourse, an increase of extremism and voters who are all too willing to vote for demagogical opportunists who take advantage of that. The younger generations of my friend groups are like yours but they don't necessarily represent society. I don't have any friends who would vote for someone like Trump if they were in the US. I do have family who vote for the French extreme right wing and those people in my family who do represent the majority of the population are not smart enough to get reliable information.