the alt-right podcast swing in the younger generation is really concerning to me. gen z used to pride themself on their political activism and progressive beliefs but I went to the No Kings protest in my purple county and there were so so few young people to the point where someone saw us and said “finally some young people!” Most people there were decades older than us. My generation has disappointed me these past few years.
All of it concerns me. Everyone is fucked as long as they are living for this culture of 1st world western life. Everyone’s picking plays out of the same play book because they never learned how play real universal chaos. …so nothing changes. They just play the moves that will always keep things the same, mainly because they are taught to and that that is the only way to live. …because they made it that way.
I think most of us is well aware of that. In the USA you either watch the one propaganda channel, or the other one. But realistically only your grandma does that. The younger people consume some alt-right internet content and think drinking bleach is a good thing, you need a trad-wife and NOAA or whoever is turning some frogs gay. At least that’s the picture I get. Okay, I let my sarcasm get the better of me. But we really know media in the US isn’t good. Neither is social media and all the political bubbles.
As someone in the US you’re not that far off even with the sarcasm.
A lot of us are still blind to it, but around the 2010 period we had a massive consolidation of news media by major corporations. The entirety of our “legacy media” are corporations that only care about profit and creating a “news product” for their intended audience. I can’t think of any well known publication that is “independent” from corporate propaganda influence let alone political. The right actually does recognize this to some extent and get really irritated about focus on social issues related to identity as that’s the only “safe” conversation for corporations to have that feed their intended “news product audience.” So they see that news as manufactured and it reenforces their desire to seek “other media” that confirm their biases.
What I do know is the right wingers are having a feast. Their media embraces the worst of their far right troglodytes as they always embrace the Republicans mission of feeding the wealthy. The so called “left wing” media will join in on the bashing of anyone to the left of Joe Biden as they also aim to protect the status quo of “feed the wealthy.”
There’s no real culture war, there is only class war. :/
Thanks for the detailed perspective. And I’m pretty sure you can’t say class war, or you’re immediately enemy number 1. At least for a good amount of people. 😅
Another one of the signs of fascism checked off!
And Canada. They’re seriously ramping up there.