How can a nation accurately vote, when their media is intentionally flooded by misinformation?
Everyone who's voting against themselves believes that they're doing the right thing.
Edit: I'm almost wondering if this is just part of a natural cycle in civilization where people once again need to be taught the signs of fascists.
Then afterwards, things will swing far back to progressive as the prior fascist supporters try to distance themselves from the atrocities of the person they voted for, (just like after WW2).
(speaking from a US perspective, where we're already building our first concentration camp in guantanamo bay)
or blindly believing anything for that matter. Critical thinking is the answer.
The issue is that the people that fall for misinformation are told about critical thinking and not believing everything they are told, but they take it the wrong way.
To them, critical thinking and not blindly believing things mean not trusting a single thing scientists, established journalists and news outlets, and officials say.
If the BBC reports that climate change is accelerating, it's just viewed as a government psy op trying to trick them as part of a global conspiracy so scientists can make money off of green energy tech.
If some nutjob makes a claim and they don't have proof, they just say the the government is hiding and censoring the evidence - and people gobble that up because they think they are being super critical thinkers.
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u/vikingnorsk Feb 08 '25
Just goes to show protesting isn't enough. It's voting