There are definitely bubbles that social media puts around everyone. But not all bubbles are the same, and each one has to be evaluated independently.
Not sure I am surprised by this. Every time I hear the phrase "Deep State" for example, I am reminded how mainstream that language has become in about a third of the IS population.
Obama warned the Republicans many years ago about their unwillingness to strongly reject the more outlandish claims during his presidency . . . like the birther movement, his religious faith, or the many spurious claims about his positions (like "he'll take away all our guns", etc.).
But now they have to bow to a guy* who claims things like, for example, millions voted illegally in 2016. Fox runs with it, social media is awash with it, and the point is debated and refuted by cooler heads. Trump starts a commission based on no evidence, finds no evidence, and quietly disbands the commission.
But nevertheless, a third of the country still believes his claim is true, because of that strange social media feedback loop. . . it's a single unforgivable example of how this admistraion fails to live to to any decent standards of actual reality, and how these lies are deliberately propagated and spread through social media.
Another example: At this moment, a claim of Joe Arpiro's current Senate campaign is that Obama was never a citizen. . . Think about how many people in the US believe that right now, and how easy a unified republican voice could easily dispel it for all but the crackpots.
It also explains how easily the next conspiracy theory starts, such as a literal attack on the FBI as an insitution, because now all of it's Trump-appointed Republicans in leadership positions are suddenly part of a liberal deep state.
You can't make up anything crazier. . . And the lost third of this country sees it every single day when they glance at their phone. . . How on earth do we fix this?
* actually, they don't have to bow to him. I fail to understand why they do. . . They got the tax cuts, so why support someone so toxic? *shrug*
