I don't normally watch TV, so it's easy to forget, but it's frankly horrifying just how heavily propagandized the average American is.
I don't normally watch TV, so it's easy to forget, but it's frankly horrifying just how heavily propagandized the average American is.
:centrist: and most likely right wing.
I cut contact with him after he argued at length in support of vaccine apartheid because "poor countries don't contribute as much to medical research"
And nothing of value was lost.
No he's most likely telling the truth. The vast majority of Americans have completely incoherent political views that can change wildly depending upon the particular issue at hand. It's why culture warring is particularly effective here. You can have hardcore reactionaries who basically espouse communist-esque views on economic issues but vote Republican because they think Cultural Marxism is destroying American when the fucking Teletubbies said "trans rights"
Why are they like this?
By design. The two major political factions that the media and parties allow to exist are entirely differentiated by culture war bullshit and anything outside that paradigm doesn't exist as far as society at large is concerned. Without any sort of coherent central ideology people just aimlessly bounce from position to position depending on what they're exposed to, leading to completely incoherent views like someone agreeing they and their coworkers should own the company they work for and receive the fruits of their labor but vote for open fascists because McDonalds had a pride flag on their soda and the only source of information they're exposed to has beaten them over the head with tHe GaY aGeNdA for the past twenty years.