It helps a lot that we still have fairly unbiased mainstream news media sources, and solid institutions that are holding the foreign and oligarchy attempts at subverting them.
But they are being eroded, over time, step by step. Bot/propaganda accounts in social media that normalize extremist views, corporate takeovers and acquisition of media, financing of political far-right parties, etc.
Honestly the only possibility I see is if Trump/Musk fuck us over so badly that everyone realizes what’s going on and unite against it, kinda like Canada did when threatened by tariffs.
It helps a lot that we still have fairly unbiased mainstream news media sources, and solid institutions that are holding the foreign and oligarchy attempts at subverting them.
But they are being eroded, over time, step by step. Bot/propaganda accounts in social media that normalize extremist views, corporate takeovers and acquisition of media, financing of political far-right parties, etc.
Honestly the only possibility I see is if Trump/Musk fuck us over so badly that everyone realizes what’s going on and unite against it, kinda like Canada did when threatened by tariffs.
Time will tell…