> An adversarial person can flood people with rethoric of issues, corruption, crime, against all established political powers and institutions, and position themselves as the solution to all those ilks.
> They can do that by flooding the public square of free opinions (the internet), with disinformation, fake data, lies of omissions, lack of contextualization, attacking all others personally, ridiculing them, etc.
> They can do that because they are free to do it.
> Then they can gain the political power from it, and slowly replace institutional power with loyalists working for them.
> Once they've managed to get enough loyalist in place through this method, they can remove the right to free speech and take over as a fascist or dictator, or other more authoritarian measures.
This is more or less what the woke left has done to a lot of cultural institutions, with universities requiring political loyalty oaths. They just don't rely on a strongman to enforce their will the way populist movements do since wokeness is a distinctly professional-managerical class movement. But they've systematically taken control of most places of cultural power in the US.
> They can do that by flooding the public square of free opinions (the internet), with disinformation, fake data, lies of omissions, lack of contextualization, attacking all others personally, ridiculing them, etc.
> They can do that because they are free to do it.
> Then they can gain the political power from it, and slowly replace institutional power with loyalists working for them.
> Once they've managed to get enough loyalist in place through this method, they can remove the right to free speech and take over as a fascist or dictator, or other more authoritarian measures.
This is more or less what the woke left has done to a lot of cultural institutions, with universities requiring political loyalty oaths. They just don't rely on a strongman to enforce their will the way populist movements do since wokeness is a distinctly professional-managerical class movement. But they've systematically taken control of most places of cultural power in the US.