just because it needs saying again: there is no material benefits policy offer Democrats can promise or even implement that will change this.

We could implement M4A/GND/UBI (and we should!) but this would remain unchanged. It's orthogonal to all of that. https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1305586206671949825

To fix this--and some of it is just unfixable--you have to go after the social media algorithms. You have to go after the right-wing infotainment complex and its funders.

But most important, you have to disempower the apartheid structures that give this coalition unearned power.

and, of course, we need to change how legacy and traditional media covers this stuff.

This local newscast, using these quotes and repeating these messages uncritically, is appallingly irresponsible.

At a base material policy level, I suppose that offering more critical thinking skills via raising education levels across the country would help inoculate against it somewhat.

But that's a long-term generational project. Right now, by far the biggest culprit is social media.