This is important: low information voters, redux

[solarbird]

I don’t normally re-boost my own posts here, but this time, the fascist disinformation machine threw something out that so perfectly highlights the problem I wrote about just a couple of days ago that I can’t not put it out there again.

There’s a video being pushed – hard – by right-wing disinformation activists and by large right-wing media that supposedly shows President Biden “wandering off” into a field at G7. This video is a lie. It is intentional disinformation, edited to excise the people he was talking to from the visible frame.

He was not wandering off. He was congratulating paratroopers who had just completed a demonstration and were folding up their parachutes. Here’s the fuller context.

This editing was intentional and designed to deceive. It was designed to push the “Biden is senile” narrative, and as one other commentator said today – and I am paraphrasing here – nothing convinces me that Trump is falling apart more than this kind of disinformation. They always project their fears and their weaknesses onto others, and this is probably another example.

But at the same time – and this is critical:

Millions of low-information voters hoovered that disinformation shit right up, unquestioned.

That’s why they must absolutely, positively, be reached. Because without serious intervention, they will fall for this kind of shit literally every. single. time.

If you have low-info people in your circle, then for the sake of literally everyone, you have got to find a way to get through to them this time around. Show them the video. Show them the other lies. Show them what’s done, how, and why.

No matter what.

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

Comments

[canyonwalker]

One mistake I see many lower-information voters make is they try to stay "neutral" by "getting information from both sides" or "from a variety of sources". The problem with "both sides"-ing the news is that when it comes to the modern US news landscape, the two sides are not Left and Right, they are Fact and Distortion. Triangulating between truth and lies does not make a person better informed, it just means they accept lies.

[solarbird]

Yeah, I buy that. They've really been trained into it from journalism behaviour over the last couple of decades, too.

Now we've got to communicate that to them.