I think you are right. Unfortunately knowing what's going on is not going to help us. The propaganda worked and people are truly turning hard right and pro-Russia. Something that would have sounded insane during the cold war. Often the same topics: "tax money wasted on corrupt Ukraine", "against woke agenda", "LGBTQ gender insanity", "immigrants are criminals". I tried to talk to people, but any information that contradicts what they now think is "fake". There are still parts of the puzzle I don't get. What turned Trump and Elon to Putin? What might Putin possibly have on Trump that could damage him? Trump can truly shoot someone in the street and people would be ok with it, like he said so himself. Elon has all the money in the world and can buy who he wants. Is it a cooperation that benefits them all? That destabilizing the West helps Putin is obvious, I suspect that what Elon and Trump get out of it is just making money and enjoying power. Where this all will end. I hope less bad than I fear. Prepare for the worst though.
Odys
I agree that this is true. I speak four languages, the first one is closest to me, the second that I learned at six (but heard all my life) is also still fairly close. English and German are roughly the same, both further away emotion wise.
You can see this movement spreading rapidly, like a cancer. People who don't really agree, just go with the flow, for money or out of fear.
Well, we can witness the 1930ths all over again. Great. Humans are dumb idiots, they don't learn.
Elon also supporting them too perhaps?
Seems the end of the Washington Post as a serious and reliable news outlet. It will not be the last in the current anti truth wave.
What's happening in the world lately makes me think humanity is doomed to fall back into some primitive state again. A depressing thought. I had great hopes in the nineties. Not that everything was fine, but there was much more cooperation between the large nations. We need each other to solve some major problems (many caused by ourselves). Instead, we do our best to add some really huge problems. I heard that one scientists thinks that the octopus will rule the world in the future, instead of us. I'm sure they will do better.
I'm not an American. Do you think they really will go as far as deporting people that are even born in the US? I feel it's more of a topic that Trump used to win votes? Now he's in, he doesn't even need the MAGA cult anymore.
I live near a smaller airport I sometimes listen to the conversations between the tower and the planes.
I think only the extremely simple life doesn't feel pain, but then you have arrived on a microscopic level, where some tiny creature is getting eaten while eating themselves.
Organised religion tends to go south
I suspect that this might be true for the older religions? They are just not all that suitable for the times we live in. What I do expect is that the older religions will be replaced by more modern ones, that will turn into organised religion.
There is definitely Russian propaganda, not that this is the only factor.