In a divided country how do we do a hard reset and get things done, empowering people and minimizing mis/disinformation?
I've lain awake lots of nights wondering about this myself.
It unfortunately boils down to "How do we deprogram at least a third of the population?"
There's an awful lot of people who are so fact-resistant that they're taking all of us down with them at this point. ☹️
Perhaps we can learn from what happened to Germany, take us back to 2026 and be transparent about what happened?
Maybe.
The German people post-WWII were *ashamed.* They went to great lengths to make sure everyone understood the history of what had been done in the name of "nationalism."
The people here and now are not ashamed in the least and they're working very hard to suppress real history. Along with everything else they're doing.
@Museek @JGNWYRK @Tarnagh They might well have just been honest and said democracy is over.
The now-infamous Lewis Powell Memo, often pointed to as the original bar napkin design for the neoliberal takeover of America (via the Supreme Court) for the ruling elite actually pointed to the "excess of democracy" putting the republic in dire jeopardy.
@PeaceMob @JGNWYRK @Tarnagh I remember my mom warning me about this when it happened. She said it would cause exactly the sorts of problems it has caused.