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[–] 13 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

Most Americans oversimplify every issue to being afraid of commies hiding in the bushes like they did in the 1950s. The major differences now are a much shorter attention span and much more superficial analytical process - spending as little time as possible taking in information before making an immediate value judgement and mentally swiping left or right.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    This predates apps with left or right swiping features and goes back all the way back to the founding days of Fox News. The whole point was to gamify/sportify politics with pure propaganda to the point where you could never get enough political will to actually remove a president again. Which comes with building the demon of the Others narrative and everything else we know today.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Yup. Turns out everyone is on a team now, and it extends even to religion. Politics now determines your religion more than your religion determines your politics.

    Edit: Oh, boy. downvoting facts again. Yes, of course YOU are not on a team. You are an INDEPENDENT THINKER that ONLY SEEKS THE TRUTH. I'm talking about those OTHER people.

    The religious profiles of U.S. adults – how religious they are and what religion they identify with – are closely aligned with their partisan political identities, according to the new Religious Landscape Study (RLS).

    https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religion-partisanship-and-ideology/out

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