That is just the right wing populism playbook. They know that their most ardent voters are several chicken nuggets short of a happy meal, so they turn it into a us vs them contest, as if politics was a sport.
It works because these people lack critical thinking skills, they never ask the obvious question, “why would a billionaire do things that would harm billionaires?”
I know what you mean, and it makes sense, but there is something in me that wants to think, that a majority of people aren’t this naïve and fall for this.
to be fair i genuinely think the vast vast vast majority of people aren’t inherently like this, it’s taken decades of effort to train the population to suppress their own cognition in this way.
That is just the right wing populism playbook. They know that their most ardent voters are several chicken nuggets short of a happy meal, so they turn it into a us vs them contest, as if politics was a sport.
It works because these people lack critical thinking skills, they never ask the obvious question, “why would a billionaire do things that would harm billionaires?”
I know what you mean, and it makes sense, but there is something in me that wants to think, that a majority of people aren’t this naïve and fall for this.
Maybe I’m naïve here in the end…
to be fair i genuinely think the vast vast vast majority of people aren’t inherently like this, it’s taken decades of effort to train the population to suppress their own cognition in this way.