How hard would we downvote this if it were the same article about voters moving on from Biden?
‘He Lost Me’: Why 10 Voters Who Backed Trump in 2016 and 2020 Have Moved On
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Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Really remarkable illustration of how foreign propaganda can influence the mindset of an average middle-American. They don’t even have the ability to see their own bubbles.
Something like “nobody knew about fake news before Trump” was just … wow.
This stuff can be undone, though. It just needs to be done carefully, you can’t bludgeon someone out when they’re fully immersed into a worldview. You’d literally be trying to break the whole basis of their personhood, the things that underpin their understanding of how the world works, why things are how they are.
Better to just open a door for them, introduce them to a service like Ground News or something, leave breadcrumbs they can follow if they want to eventually navigate out of the dark forest. But without challenging them in a way that simply alienates and angers them. It’s a tightrope walk.