The problem is BOTH the demagogues AND their audience. The demagogues get more extreme, their audience reacts by becoming more extreme, the demagogues respond by becoming even more extreme, and so on, and so on. It's a vicious circle, a self-reinforcing feedback loop. But the blame has to be assigned mostly to the demagogues, they KNO…
The problem is BOTH the demagogues AND their audience. The demagogues get more extreme, their audience reacts by becoming more extreme, the demagogues respond by becoming even more extreme, and so on, and so on. It's a vicious circle, a self-reinforcing feedback loop. But the blame has to be assigned mostly to the demagogues, they KNOW what they're doing and they're doing it DELIBERATELY, to create the result they want, and they don't give a crap about the consequences. And we don't have enough voices of sanity on the right speaking out to counterbalance the voices of demagoguery.
The problem is BOTH the demagogues AND their audience. The demagogues get more extreme, their audience reacts by becoming more extreme, the demagogues respond by becoming even more extreme, and so on, and so on. It's a vicious circle, a self-reinforcing feedback loop. But the blame has to be assigned mostly to the demagogues, they KNOW what they're doing and they're doing it DELIBERATELY, to create the result they want, and they don't give a crap about the consequences. And we don't have enough voices of sanity on the right speaking out to counterbalance the voices of demagoguery.