Isn’t this simply a matter of who has the time to care? I mean, who really has much time to sift through all the info out there (or the will and know how to do so).
What will happen is exactly what is effective in the current political game. Personally I don’t see the point in getting distracted by the sham of ‘this or that political party’ as the power lies in forcing the current administration to do what you want it to do.
I still find these kinds of figures the main reason for purposeful mosinformation:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/01/electio ... llion.htmlBasically, if you’ve an uncapped amount to spend on campaigning then why waste time being selective with impactful information when you can just carpet bomb the public through social media and rely on disruption rather than actual information based on planned out policies/manifestos.
The event of the internet has shown the world what US politics is all about (and the US economy). It is all about quantity over quality. This will eventually weigh against itself once the impact of mass global communications comes fully online and once it has been in full swing for long enough for people to realise what is going on.
For the here and now I don’t see things getting better quickly before they get worse. Like I said, this is just getting started. My wish is that while different political parties are busy battling it out (in what is a dying sphere of public interest) a different way of doing politics will slowly and surely shove them to one side. I’m guessing this will be through some kind of multimedia interaction that will most certainly involve AI of some kind in a more impactful and accepted manner.
For the rest of the planet, and the US, I hope Biden gets in. Beyond that I hope he gets out quickly too and people find themselves in a situation where BOTH candidates on both sides are new and fresh - honestly though, I think if Trump loses he’ll just be back again next time AND will likely win then unless someone stronger opposes him. I say this because I don’t believe Biden can do a good job that will be publicly perceived as a ‘good job’ due to the current situation the world is in.
The silver-lining here is if Trump wins then you’ll only have to put up with him for four more years! By the time those four years are over I’m sure Covid will be gone and he’ll be talking about his ‘success’.
The black cloud is the state of the opposition. Playing naive and talk of ‘misinformation’ as some new and underhanded tactic in politics (especially in the US) is frankly laughable.
Honestly I’ more concerned about humanity getting a moon base and travelling to Mars. This is minnows stuff. The movers and changers aren’t really politicians but they are political in that they inspire and innovate. All the politicians are meant to do is enable humanity to expand and innovate.
The information age is just getting going folks! Hold onto your seats :D