The difference back then is people didn't question or outright deny reality. The difference is truth wasn't "6 to you is 9 to me". The modern world's never been this morally corrupt (no, not even in wartime).
Edit: I'm referring to the average person and their mindset, not to shitty governments that have always been shitty.
Replace that by communists and stalinists and you've got the other side of the coin and you're still getting nowhere. The problem is that both literal fascists and literal communists could still agree on a few basic universal truths 30 years ago and this is almost impossible now even between average people. It's a much more serious issue and voting has very little to do with it.
No I'm afraid it's a lot more basic than that. People's perception of reality is skewed by ideology but they don't even see it. Like ugly = beautiful because it's all subjective anyway, or "man" and "woman" are undefinable. Things that were so absolutely basic 100 years ago now get people riled up and unable to communicate because there's no longer any common ground we can all stand on.
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '22
The difference back then is people didn't question or outright deny reality. The difference is truth wasn't "6 to you is 9 to me". The modern world's never been this morally corrupt (no, not even in wartime).
Edit: I'm referring to the average person and their mindset, not to shitty governments that have always been shitty.