Social media is the cause, for both sides.
Across the western world politics is having rapid adjusts, and it’s all being manipulated. What is center right today still, is grouped with some of the most harmful ideologies in the world, and most what is grouped within that is just comfortable basic needs for everyone, while the center left doing the same is now put in a group of far left socialism,
No one wants to meet in the middle anymore. Everyone online especially is stuck treating it like a game their side HAS to win for the greater good because the other is going to destroy everything. No government can ever keep up with this rapid shift, It’s all going to boil to a point 1 side getting in power is going to take things to drastic measures, and do exactly the things you read about in history books. Civil uprising takes to many years, it takes like 30 years of oppression for that to happen. and in the span of less than 10 years look at how much the political space has shifted drastically. When this comes to an end and everything is reset, it isnt going to be pretty, and your grandkids will be learning about it in school
This was written in 2026?. For almost 20 years everyone 50+ has been hanging out on facebook, Everywhere I’ve worked in different places across the country, from coast to coast the older people never shut up about facebook topics and the charlie bit the finger kinda meme’s .They are much more grounded in social media than any other age using for the most part, they personally know the people they are scrolling feeds on and talking to.
Unlike the rest of us using sites like reddit, lemmy, and the likes. We spend our days interacting with strangers and the majority are just cleverly disguised AI at this point. Completely manipulating our reality, then we run to youtube and have 95% of our videos being ad’s disguised to be genuine content that impacts our sites, apps and hardware choices, news, and political opinions to the point there is only 2 far sides to the spectrum and no one can be even remotely close to the center anymore.
I think the old people are doing quite alright in this age of easily accessible addictive doomscrolling, especially when you think anyone 50+ today was only in thier 30’s and 40’s when smart phones came out