[Maru]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..I'll look at your links a bit later in the day when I have more time Maru as I have to get off now...but wasn't it Reddit also that were asking for people to share the vid with Hilary's 'rapist enabler', slanted in editing video in the other thread..?..

There are a few groups at different sites, though Reddit is maybe the most popular. The Reddit article has statistics and its just amazing how much it's pickIng up.

I guess another question would be... without the internet would a Trump candidacy even be possible... the media held the narrative with lock and key. It took numbers to get ideas and more pressure than it was probably worth to spread... now it only takes a few clicks and a willing botnet.

For me, the tension in the US became obvious after 911 but since that coincided with the rise of the net, I guess it could also be that we are all exposed to increasingly oppressive rhetoric in larger doses. Some Americans become very sensitive when they feel their version of the nation's self-image is being attacked and under siege by what they consider to be a toxic force imposing on their idealist visions for the US. Once you put someone into a defensive posture, it's very difficult to get them to come down from their position... especially on the net of all places. We all generally live in a filter bubble thanks to click baity social media algorhythms, tailored search results via Google and now an army of propaganda pushers.

It is incredibly difficult to get through all that noise to try to find a voter who is receptive to such messaging without playing to their deepest emotional sensivities. It's probably much easier to just talk to voters in person to level with them on how their views are contributing to the sexism, etc than over the net where most content served to them is meant to coddle them and cater to their views, not differ from them and challenge them.