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1/ How Facebook screwed us all motherjones.com/politics/2019/… via @MotherJones The following is from the article: A Nightmare in America. Begin MJ:
2/ Just picture a reasonably proximate scenario: It’s the winter of 2020, and Donald Trump—having lost reelection by a margin closer than expected—is in full attack mode, whipping up stories of runaway voter fraud. Local protest groups coalesce around Facebook posts assailing
3/ liberals, murderous “illegals,” feminists. (This is basically what happened in France last year with the “anger groups” that birthed the yellow vest protests.) Pizzagate-style conspiracy theories race through these groups, inflaming their more extreme members. Add a population
4/ that is, unlike those of France and Nigeria, armed to the teeth, and the picture gets pretty dark. In other words, though it has already facilitated the election of a demagogue committed to stoking racial prejudice, enriched his family, and sold out America’s national
5/ interest, social media may not yet have shown us the worst it can do to a divided society. And if we don’t get a handle on the power of the platforms, we could see worse play out sooner than we think. END MJ. Trump rejected the legitimacy of the 2016 election--until he won.
6/ Trump already rejects the 2020 election as illegitimate. Trump has rejected the legitimacy of the Special Counsel's Office. Trump has rejected the legitimacy of the mainstream media. The Christian Right & GOP reject the legitimacy of the Democratic Party. Wake up, America.
