More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. Their criticisms sound very close to that of socialists

https://lemmy.world/post/2942318

More Perfect Union went to a trump rally. Their criticisms sound very close to that of socialists - Lemmy.world

I know I’ve seen some articles on this but I can’t seem to find them again. There were studies done where they asked self identified right wing people to agree or disagree with political statements.

People were very likely to disagree with a statement like “I support universal healthcare”, but very likely to agree with statements like “I support laws which would ensure no taxpayer would enter into medical debt for obtaining necessary medical care”. Essentially, if you just described socialist ideology, without using the common words for it, a large amount of right wing people completely agreed with it.

Americans are the most propagandized people on Earth.
More than the CCP? More than Russia? More than North Korea? Please.
Maybe not North Korea, but the other two? Easily.
How can you possibly say that when the CCP exerts such tight control over the parts of the Internet mainlanders are allowed to see?

That’s authoritarianism. You don’t see the CCP edging closer to a civil war based on propagated polarising. AFAIK, that’s never been achieved in human history. I’m sure it’s unlikely to happen, but between all the international targeting from Russia, China, etc. and then the US’s own media and governments, the US is soaked in propaganda more than anywhere else. Absolutely surrounded by it.

But this is the interesting part. The more someone is propagated, the less likely they are to realise it.

America doesn’t even need to do that. It just convinces people to not trust anything that doesn’t come from pre-approved sources and that works well enough.