>>101591477I'd play on the humour of how boring everything actually is, how everything is here today and gone tomorrow.
I don't exactly know how, but I mean you've got the child separation thing. Massive news for a week, then everyone forgets about it and the news cycle moves on. i don't really see why anyone pays attention at all unless they're directly impacted by the issue of the week. for my take, the most important decisions governing our lives today were taken decades ago.
>>101594903>>101595164It's not really about radicalisation, it's more about wedge issues.
It's easy to decide to fight to the death over bathroom signs. That's a simple issue everyone can understand and quickly come to a take on. Hell, you could just flip a coin to pick a side and then start arguing with people. Meanwhile, we've seen very little drifting on real economic issues or serious solutions to problems, because those are complicated, tedious and unspeakably boring. Even where parties have different economic policies, the framework they're working in is the same, so everything else around tax and spend follows from that. everyone just takes a technocratic approach and figures, even now, it's something that can be side-stepped, ignored, or just left to work itself out.
If you were to represent it on a political compass, with left-right as cultural politics and up-down as economics, both major groups would be 1 square away from each other vertically, but 10 apart culturally. so in one sense, they've been radicalised a lot - but in the other, they've converged dramatically. in some ways it's better than having both parties even closer together since it does at least offer people some form of choice, but really if we're to break out of this we need to put economics back into politics.
>>101595043angry people click more / watch more and political wedge issues are great for making people angry
