Ed Coper in Podcasts
personAustralian political strategist and author.
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And we're not noticing that our ability to actually have policy reform or even policy discussion these days is kind of rendered moot because you can drown it out with noise very easily on social media.
Because they know for all the time that we spend outraged about the next thing that comes out of Trump's mouth, we're not actually paying attention to the real problems.
The playing field is weighted to drown out any kind of reform, any kind of policy, any kind of new idea, and just keep the status quo.
We are given a constant torrent of extremely outrageous things, real and imagined, that we can never catch our breath.
protest or media meltdown or these normal things.
Our democracies are set up for people to get information, decide what goes outside the normal bounds of what's acceptable, be collectively outraged about them, communicate that outrage to the political establishment, either through
And what we're supposed to do when some outrageous idea is proposed is we assemble all the forces of public opinion and talk about it and be outraged by it and the media will spend a week prognosticating on it and people will form their opinions and ultimately a political actor can't get away with it because of these levels of outrage.
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