Smaller influencers and the mainstream media see the resulting wave of identical posts across social media, assume it’s an organic movement, and jump on the bandwagon, creating an even larger echo chamber for rightwing talking points that benefit billionaires or monopolistic corporations.
It isn’t. As she put it: “There is no free thinking here. They are waiting to get marching orders and a direct deposit.”
And the broader point stands: the entire ecosystem of right-wing media is so saturated with covert money that a foreign adversary could plug straight into it without anyone even noticing, and did!
What we are living through is a deliberately constructed fog of lies and grievance with one purpose only: to keep us screaming at each other about bathrooms and brown-skinned invaders while the people writing the checks rob us blind.
This is called plutocracy. The year 1973 is mentioned in the article as marking the beginning of this plutocratic takeover. That was the year in the US when rising real-estate property values began an acceleration. In the 1950s, if you had a job after high school, you could afford to buy a house.
