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Comment by mensetmanusman | Hacker News Reader

It was interesting to read the description of ‘fighting institutions’ that focus on arguments about certain topics that are mostly based on fallacies.

The sad situation in the U.S. is also a result of it being the target of so much psychological warfare from Russia. The internet is an excellent medium to cause confusion. Fix that, and you might heal democracy.

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If you really blame Russia for the current US situation, I have bad news for you. Blaming an external power is a political manipulation 101. Focusing public attention on them is almost always used to hide real structural domestic problems. Soviet Union also loved to shift blame onto the US and modern Russia does it as well. Did that help them to built a better society?

External powers can only do so much. Usually most that they can do is to give a little push to processes already existing in society (and the US is a world leading expert at giving such pushes). So my advice would be: look at domestic roots of a problem first, not at foreign powers which try to exploit them.

> So my advice would be: look at domestic roots of a problem first, not at foreign powers which try to exploit them.

External powers have done a lot to manipulate US elections… via Facebook, a US company.

This is good advice.

Do you seriously believe that the main reason that Trump got elected is a bunch of Facebook ads?

I've got an idea you might like. Protect Americans from being exposed to dissenting ideas by blocking non-approved foreign content from their internet. You could call it the Great Freedom Wall. /s

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