What's the bloody difference between public or social media telling listeners to think
Left vs. Breitbart News imploring those same listeners to think Right?
Same darn thing.
When Reagan became President, oh, way back in '81, folks who bemoaned Reaganomics,
the slow death of the New Deal, got freaked out by Ayn Rand along with that Werner Erhard
chap etc. Those people were simply told, with brazen nonchalance, "Yo, kids! That was then,
this is now, so GET USED TO IT!!" Without the Reagan counter- or anti-revolution, a Trump victory
eight years ago wouldn't have been remotely possible.
Funny though, that similar rhetoric was once heard, as William Shirer and other commentators
of the time wrote, when Hitler came to power back in '33. A minority of older people also bemoaned
the death of democracy and humanism, Spengler taking over Goethe and Schiller, the persecution
of their Jewish friends and neighbors, a new scary streak of cruelty and brutality taking over the country,
a fever over the land. They were told as well, "This is the new order....get used to it OR ELSE!!"
Gives one pause, I think.