Social media is probably a major catalyst for hatred. Hatred is driving people to vote against their own interests.
Right-wing hate speech dominates social media because it's the normative position of our society. All of that existed long before social media. The only reason people think otherwise is probably because they were too young to observe it.
Segregation only officially ended ~60 years ago. Even after that we have had, and even continue to have, economic segregation.
Slavery might've been officially abolished ~160 years ago but it exists to this day in the form of convict leasing.
Queer people were criminalized and persecuted up until the late 20th century.
Women only really gained bodily autonomy in the 1960s and 1970s (and lost some of it in 2022).
Social media simply reflects how popular all of these ideas still are.
A lot of real-world economic segregation is directly linked the housing market, and then the leftists actively support it. When policy choices are adopted such that the market threatens to reduce the amount of segregation that a city or neighborhood is subjected to, leftists call that development "gentrification" and scream in protest against it.
Yes.
> ... and then the leftists actively support i
No, they don't.
Liberals (which really means neoliberals) support it. Here's a helpful diagram:
<--------- Left ------ Center ------- Right ------------->
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
} Cares about People | Cares about Property |
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
| Leftists/Progressives | (Neo)liberals |
+-------------------------+------------------------------+
| Socialism | Capitalism |
+-------------------------+--------------+---------------+
| Materialism | Idealism |
+-------------------------+--------------+---------------+
| | Democrats | Republicans |
+-------------------------+--------------+---------------+
Leftists also generally believe in "personal property" not "private property". That is, you can own your own home but you can't hoard housing.
How successful NIMBYism is in the US just shows you how normative right-wing attitudes are. done
Poor people mostly rent because they can't afford or can't get a mortgage. When an area gentrifies those people are forced out because the rents rise, and wealthy people move in. If you just look at the income distribution in the area it looks like "the population" became wealthier, but if you look at the individuals you find that the old residents have been forced out, and generally wind up poorer because of this (social networks disrupted, work further away etc).
All Russia needs to do is bribe corporations.
It is that easy.