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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Populism playbook. For populism to be an effective strategy, you need to capitalize on the ways the population feels ignored or unfairly treated (which is why Kenney bitched so much about equalization he helped create and why conservatives shake a finger at CERB or emergency measures they supported) and/or create new sources for those feelings (NDP was a media darling, unvaccinated where the most discriminated people ever, etc.).
Basically, the goal is to manipulate people who are easy to manipulate by giving them someone to be angry at for all the wrong in their life and a saviour, while ensuring any criticism of the saviour is just “the enemy being the enemy.” Doesn’t matter if it’s true, if the person pointing it out is part of the problem, or anything like that, because their targets want to believe. They’re giving purposeless people a made up purpose and making people who are just kind of stupid and bad at life the heroes in their own story.
They aren’t going after guys like CaptainCrunch, Ryan Coke, Zarley, or whatever other conservative posters who can think for themselves, they’re going after the Yohos and 14Romans of the province who are easy to rile up and manipulate. Get them angry or scared enough and they basically function like bots, repeating everything you feed into them and spreading it to a wider audience.
It’s why Yoho’s commentary is nonsensical or just constant editorials and why 14Romans was going on about COVID being a government conspiracy to control the population and how the hospitals were going to be full of people dying from the vaccine. Populists just put the slop out to their channels, the followers eat it up without even pausing to chew, and pretty soon it’s beyond their bubbles and flooding random social circles, social media, message boards, etc with whatever nonsense.
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The thing that always gets me is the over-the-top victim mentality. It always comes across as so fake, and such a twisted perspective. It's like a bully crying about being bullied when their victim stands up to them. Sorry, I don't feel bad for you.
Discrimanted against? Oppressed by the media? The bubble these people live in is incredible