I don’t think it’s just different information environments when there’s laws being passed to ban books
His point is that these people are hearing, all day every day, that liberals are trying to force their children to think and behave in a way that is anathema to them. They then go speak to their friends, and hear about their buddy’s kid who went to college and came back a liberal.
Because of the information they are fed, they don’t see that their friend’s kid became a liberal because they became more educated - they think the college literally brainwashed them.
When everything you hear is this kind of falsehood that “makes sense” if you don’t scrutinize it, many people are susceptible to believing in a reality that is just not true.
I genuinely do not believe that, in many cases. I know a lot of these people - sunup to sundown they get precisely one message, and it is increasingly inaccurate, alarmist, and insane.
Human beings are gullible as fuck and this is how you manipulate people. I assure you millions of North Koreans really do believe that the North Korean army is fighting off US invasions left and right - it’s the same underlying functionality as why a lot of MAGA believe the crazy shit they believe
His point is that these people are hearing, all day every day, that liberals are trying to force their children to think and behave in a way that is anathema to them. They then go speak to their friends, and hear about their buddy’s kid who went to college and came back a liberal.
Because of the information they are fed, they don’t see that their friend’s kid became a liberal because they became more educated - they think the college literally brainwashed them.
When everything you hear is this kind of falsehood that “makes sense” if you don’t scrutinize it, many people are susceptible to believing in a reality that is just not true.
Yep. And I’m saying those people are aware of the alternative viewpoints and are choosing fascism.
I genuinely do not believe that, in many cases. I know a lot of these people - sunup to sundown they get precisely one message, and it is increasingly inaccurate, alarmist, and insane.
Human beings are gullible as fuck and this is how you manipulate people. I assure you millions of North Koreans really do believe that the North Korean army is fighting off US invasions left and right - it’s the same underlying functionality as why a lot of MAGA believe the crazy shit they believe