We have a particular segment of the population, many of them Boomers, that overdosed on the internet and refuse to accept that the internet lies to them, manipulates them, and acts as a conduit for propaganda tailor made for their lack of critical thinking and short sighted ideals. Cable TV (esp news outlets) was the primer for this and continues to act in tandem.

These are largely the same people who told us ‘video games make the kids violent!’ along with many other tropes that have been fed to them so they have zero incentive to see themselves as part and parcel to the problems we face today.

Now, we have an entire generation of new voters that have spent half their lives steeped in this Trumpian bullshit. They too are so lost in the version of reality that is being sold to them online that they don’t even see actual day to day reality for what it is.

Idk how we fix this, aside from something really major happening that unites us against our oppressors, or a multigenerational project akin to educational rehab.