Comment by idiotsecant
2 days ago
You ... Work on aspects of your society that Russian bots can seize on?
Fracture point propaganda campaigns only work because we let those issues fester.
2 days ago
You ... Work on aspects of your society that Russian bots can seize on?
Fracture point propaganda campaigns only work because we let those issues fester.
That, unlike other proposed solutions, would certainly work. The problem is that these political fracture points are there because of opposing interests between different groups in society. This can be easily solved in more authoritarian government structures by simply choosing a winner and a loser, but in democracy not so much.
And while I don't have any doubt in my mind that there are foreign entities working to exploit these fracture points, I am very skeptical that they are the main cause of problems here. We have seen such fracture points arise and cause political strife up to the point of civil wars many times throughout history without such foreign instigation.
No, most of these are due to corruption and populism, also lack of interest in solving real problems. It's pretty simple to understand.
Foreign entities (a particular one really) is a tool used by corrupt politicians in each country. Eventually your political field becomes "who is the biggest traitor" and then you're finished, fascism is the only direction this is headed towards. This is your real destination, very closely modeled after that one foreign entity you have in mind. It already went through all these phases.