tanja_alina_berg 's review for:

The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America by David Pakman

4.0

dark hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

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An excellent book for understanding what has gone wrong in the United States of America. How an unrepresentative democracy where politicians choose their voters rather than the other way around leads to low voter turnout and disengagement on the left. How fear mongering on the right was leveraged by social media. How schools don’t teach critical thinking and how undermining the higher education in general is a conscious strategy. A flock not taught to question is easier to lead and control. This will be slated for reread, at least the first part of the book. The second deals with getting the Democrats to rally against the Republican insanity, which is less interesting for someone in Europe. Although considering the absolute havoc caused by the current president, it’s still readable enough. Just to get some hope.