cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1825854/i-mean-she-s-right
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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What bothers me most about this state of affairs is that almost everyone who looks at it immediately lays the blame at the feet of "the voters", ignoring the fact that we've all been the victims of relentless and insidious propaganda for decades now.
Not only that, but we've also been the victims of constant, well-funded attacks against the core institutions that were meant to shield us against this sort of thing. Journalism is a joke now. Education is in shambles. Community engagement is the lowest it's ever been. Our attention has been kidnapped by social media designed take and take and take from us without giving anything back.
But don't think about that... Don't ask why the voters are angry and ignorant and fearful and hateful. Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.
1000% agree. We didn't just end up this way by accident. We are all victims of a system that has been slowly and deliberately eroded to ensure maximum apathy. It's not the voter's fault that education, journalism, and social safeguards are hollowed out husks of what they used to be.
The frustrating part is that I don't see a way out of it. There's no easy or obvious solution to the problem. You can expose the man behind the curtain as many times as you like, but partisan politicians will always be playing defense for their team and all the many scandals and earth-shattering revelations will be reduced to a political disagreement, where for every narrative there must be a counter narrative that explains why the other people are wrong, even if it must fly in the face of observable truth.