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Originally Posted by GGG
I think the main failure here isn't the undercurrent of nativism or xenophobia. I think a lot of it is poor critical thinking skills. One of the reasons people voted to leave was they believed the economic lies of the leave campaign that they could still participate in the free market as save 300 million pounds per year.
Trumps entire campaign has been blatantly untrue.
How do we educate the public to stop treating politics and news as sports teams to be cheered for. How we get the media to focus on dry fact checking and limit editorialization. People who are voting are not uniformed they are misinformed.
This needs to change somehow
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Media conglomerates bear the brunt of this responsibility. As much as this is about immigration and the working class, this is also a result of Rupert Murdoch's UK media dominance.
You simply cannot have an informed democracy without an informed electorate and the anti-capitalists that have presided over media deregulation in Western society since the 70s are directly to blame for our post-factual political climate.