It's not "low information voters" who are the problem, it's the "wrong information voters". Starting with Rush Limbaugh in 1989, the disinformation industry has learned that 35% and more of Americans are looking for "news" that fits their world view, true or not. Just like Joseph Goebbels in the 1930's, the American disinformation indust…
It's not "low information voters" who are the problem, it's the "wrong information voters". Starting with Rush Limbaugh in 1989, the disinformation industry has learned that 35% and more of Americans are looking for "news" that fits their world view, true or not. Just like Joseph Goebbels in the 1930's, the American disinformation industry has weaponized the First Amendment for huge profits. Democracy fans need to put on their big boy pants and work on cures for this cancer. Unrestricted free speech wasn't created by the founders as an eventual poison pill that democracy must swallow.
I see in some people that being told "this is the thing that no one else will tell you" or "not many people know this but we'll tell you because you're smart enough to understand" or "truth that the Deep State or MSM won't tell you." It greatly appeals to their need to be smarter than anyone else. It's an appeal to their vanity, not necessarily a way to ping confirmation bias.
It's not "low information voters" who are the problem, it's the "wrong information voters". Starting with Rush Limbaugh in 1989, the disinformation industry has learned that 35% and more of Americans are looking for "news" that fits their world view, true or not. Just like Joseph Goebbels in the 1930's, the American disinformation industry has weaponized the First Amendment for huge profits. Democracy fans need to put on their big boy pants and work on cures for this cancer. Unrestricted free speech wasn't created by the founders as an eventual poison pill that democracy must swallow.
I see in some people that being told "this is the thing that no one else will tell you" or "not many people know this but we'll tell you because you're smart enough to understand" or "truth that the Deep State or MSM won't tell you." It greatly appeals to their need to be smarter than anyone else. It's an appeal to their vanity, not necessarily a way to ping confirmation bias.
And tfg uses all those lines, successfully I might add.
You wrote: "It's not "low information voters" who are the problem, it's the 'wrong information voters'."
Yes. As the saying goes: It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.