> I want to believe this but I can't honestly imagine someone actively thinking about this and dedicating part of their work to misinforming the poor intentiona

> I want to believe this but I can't honestly imagine someone actively thinking about this and dedicating part of their work to misinforming the poor intentionally. Populism is exactly this - misinforming poorly educated people with bad scary words, "others", "easy" fixes. > Inflation is bad! Crime is bad! We'll just deport 20 million "others" and everything will be allright! Or: > Let's send all the money we're spending on the EU on the NHS, 350 million pounds per week more for the National Health Service! In some countries, like the US, there are active efforts to sabotage education, or at least cripple it - by reducing funding to a point where educators have to spend their own money for supplies, get burned out, have poverty-level wages, etc. Those can't be accidental.