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9. The level of shameless PR from F47's goon squad of Faux-News bozos is/will be legendary, studied for centuries

The ego and legacy of this past decade will be fascinating to future historians (humans mostly, if they're all AI they probably won't care after the first 100ms it takes to absorb the cautionary tale into a neural mesh). Sucks to live through it, but I gotta admit the good times were amazing.

The graceless bootlicking, D-grade acting, and pandering to our worst selves -- it really pulled a lot of us in. That's a major social failure, one that the world's democracies had better study thoroughly. It only takes a few decades of underfunding and overcrowding public education while steeping the population in a kettle of greed and rightwing propaganda to push a nation into a situation where enough people believe criminal bullshit artists to let them take over. This history must be understood, thoroughly, for democracy anywhere to survive.

The propagandists convinced a wealthy people that they were poor.

The propagandists convinced a privileged people that they were oppressed.

The propagandists convinced skilled and talented people that they were only viable if they worked for someone richer.

The propagandists convinced the grandchildren of immigrants that immigrants were to be distrusted by default.

I could go on but it's too damn depressing. Their triumph is monumental, as is humanity's loss.