Our world suffers from a lack of perspective. Smaller issues are inflated in importance and leveraged against bigger ones to deflect and for the claiming of false equivalency. The discussion around these smaller issues becomes intense and all sense of proportion is lost.
I always go back to critical thinking which is in massively short supply in our world.
The right wing successfully employs the tactic of amplifying some issues as scare tactic. Hords of immigrants are said to be destroying the fabric of a society which then leads to moral panics. To some degree this likely helped many Britons vote for Brexit and some Americans to vote for the odious Trump.
These methods work which is why they are used and always will be.
The political right doesn't have much of a platform because their policies aren't popular but if nothing else they have cultural outrage.
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