This would explain a lot about Trump too. He was in a misinformation bubble as well.
Which means even world leaders aren't immune to this tribal trap.
The same was true of people. People were either "the greatest" or "losers" depending on whether the last thing they said made Trump look good or not.
Trump was creating a lot of misinformation, but it wasn't because he was misinformed (at least not primarily). It was because he cared more for his image (and, I suspect, his own image of himself) rather than reality. Facts didn't matter, only image did.
The question though, are these protests really what he has called them? Are they really a military occupation?
>This would explain a lot about Trump too. He was in a misinformation bubble as well.
100% true. You will find even republican ideologues have called him out on many of his bullshit things. Hell his rhetoric was toxic. Tons of improvement could happen over Trump.
>Which means even world leaders aren't immune to this tribal trap.
It's built into our psychology, but not something out of control. Harper was in power for 9 years and never called in the military. He never demonized his political opponents. He never falsely labelled a peaceful protest as a military occupation. He never smeared political opponents as 'racists and white nationalists with unacceptable views'. He never declared a state of emergency to crush dissent.
Trudeau doesn't need the military. He gave himself to power to seize your bank account because you're a protester. No court orders. No due process.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said at Monday's news conference that banks would be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests without any need for a court order.
Definitely not. Every large scale protest has its provocateurs and outliers. Using the outliers to frame the 99% is dishonest to say the least.
To any neutral observer they are overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the working class.
This isn't a neutral observation. "overwhelmingly peaceful and represent normal working class people" exposes a politically-motivated bias.
To a neutral observer the BLM protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the administrative class.
To a neutral observer the trucker protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and represent the working class.
More accurately, the protests (both of the truckers and BLM) represent more narrowly defined set of political prinicples than the beliefs of more general classes, which tend not to be as homogeneous in their views as is often portrayed.