> we're really beyond saving if not even people on /pol/ realize that the elite are always playing both sides and every single leading politician is a puppet for them, yes that includes trump. "realizing" this in such a vague manner is completely useless anyway. zero actionable knowledge comes with that. reality is that there are multiple factions fighting at all different layers and where individuals with power in the system each have their own personal goals and motivations. yes, fake dialectics appear all the time but simply realizing this is pointless especially if the result is that you dismiss real issues as fake distractions.   the big change now is in the media/press. legacy media is still powerful, they have a lot of infrastructure and large audiences, but their performance in the 2024 election was abysmal. even picrel downplays the difference. you can see the steady downward trend, but you don't see the upward trend of alternate information sources after independent voices got purged and boxed out of big tech and media during the trump era. and the various alternate sources are often much more engaged audiences than big networks and cable news.
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