I hear you on a lot of this (though there've been lots of articles on what went wrong, some saying Harris went too Left, others she went too Right...anyway) There was a great article in the Atlantic today about how the rise of misinformation has become a "justification machine." Today, if you want to think something, you can find somethi…
I hear you on a lot of this (though there've been lots of articles on what went wrong, some saying Harris went too Left, others she went too Right...anyway) There was a great article in the Atlantic today about how the rise of misinformation has become a "justification machine." Today, if you want to think something, you can find something online to justify you. Which means that everyone who wanted to justify a vote for Trump *could*. Which made his patent unfitness moot.
I agree with you that people who made that choice own that choice. People can seek information instead of justification. But dealing with that is going to mean dealing with people genuinely not understanding what they chose.
I hear you on a lot of this (though there've been lots of articles on what went wrong, some saying Harris went too Left, others she went too Right...anyway) There was a great article in the Atlantic today about how the rise of misinformation has become a "justification machine." Today, if you want to think something, you can find something online to justify you. Which means that everyone who wanted to justify a vote for Trump *could*. Which made his patent unfitness moot.
I agree with you that people who made that choice own that choice. People can seek information instead of justification. But dealing with that is going to mean dealing with people genuinely not understanding what they chose.