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Originally Posted by cratman
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/30/o...many-1918.html
Germany’s first democracy fell. Without a basic consensus built on a shared reality, society split into groups of ardent, uncompromising partisans. And in an atmosphere of mistrust and paranoia, the notion that dissenters were threats to the nation steadily took hold.
Alarmingly, that seems to be exactly what is happening in the United States today. According to the Pew Research Center, 89 percent of Trump supporters believe that a Joe Biden presidency would do “lasting harm to the U.S.,” while 90 percent of Biden supporters think the reverse. And while the question of which news media to trust has long split America, now even the largely unmoderated Twitter is regarded as partisan. Since the election, millions of Trump supporters have installed the alternative social media app Parler. Filter bubbles are turning into filter networks
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I agree with one major exception. When that segment of partisans use and believe an alternative reality, we have a false equivalency.
There is no doubt in my mind. Trump who was the first president to mesmerize his supporters with full blown conspiracy theories, will go down in history as the worst ranked president in history.
