@tzimmer_history@mastodon.social and yes it is immensely dangerous... AND, this danger is especially heightened with the help of so many forms of corporately owned media. One thing I've found really disturbing among liberal leaders (since maybe about 2000 or so) is the excruciating slowness to really grasp that propaganda in the US in the 21st century is done by COMBINING good reporting with utter lies and spin. Agenda setting has been occurring for decades in so called prestige news without most people realizing at all, but somewhere in the past few decades it got and remained sooooo much worse and malignant than it had been.