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Do you mean the competition for who can be the biggest bozo? I agree. Look at the post prior to mine. The problem, as I see it, is the ease with which social media is being subverted to exploit confirmation bias with lies and half-truths. While the Left may be more vocal on TV, on social media, the right has gone full Animal Farm double-speak and the left has no idea how bad it's gotten. Like I said in another thread, Brexit and the election of Trump are only the beginning. France will soon follow suit, and they will get a big boost in Canada the moment Trudeau makes a single serious blunder. My point is that not everyone who supports the right is an extremist, but neither is everyone on the Left. Until we find a way to come together, the extremist voices on both sides will hold sway.
So far, the ability to avoid scapegoating and spreading false propaganda seems more of an attribute of the center left, but if centrists of both sides can't somehow overcome the loudest voices with reason, nothing much is going to change anytime soon.
There are some poisonous elements to the new right, but let's face it, if the intellectual elite of the left had been able to keep their own "hounds" on a leash while addressing people's legitimate concerns (instead of developing a culture of sweeping uncomfortable, under-lying issues under the carpet), the far-right wouldn't have much ground to stand on. Their ideas are now welcomed because they seem like viable alternatives to what has been going on, and that's a rather sorry state of affairs.
What it teaches us, is that ignoring the pink elephant in the room is generally freakin' stupid, because it allows the possibility that the biggest idiot can walk into the room and point it out, and be hailed as a genius for it.