• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    It’s even simpler than that, it’s people being told what to think.

    I think “people” speaking very generally used to not read a ton of news, heard stuff from the grapevine, and so on. “Elites” and news junkies had somewhat more monolithic sources.

    And that’s not true anymore. Nearly every “average” person’s life is now dominated by a personalized feed, a podcast, TV, radio, chatroom, whatever, and it’s having an outsized influence compared to their observations of reality now.

    It’s my belief that there’s basically nothing Biden could have done to alter this (other than regulating algorithms, and it’s far too late) and ultimately it’s the DNC’s fault for “taking the high road” and not playing the propaganda game.