• RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    > we could all just vote for people that aren’t corrupt

    Audiences who flock to liars and deceivers seems to be trending in bad direction. Business leaders, politicians. What Cambridge Analytica unleashed as mass psychology tactics in 2014 may be very difficult to undo.

    > corrupt… or at least, yet!

    Things like term limits seemed to help stop some of the problems of people corrupting once they got into positions of power. But now it seems crowds of more and more people are choosing pre-corrupted, cheering on corruption.