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In reply to the discussion: I'm from the south. [View all]rrneck
(17,671 posts)And those who find their way to it may see problems with it that are overlooked by those who never had to seek it out to begin with.
Plus, there is an ideology industry designed to tell people what they want to hear as a product for sale. I suspect that when an ideology is distributed as a product it can lead to a kind of extremism that is divorced from reality and becomes a sort of wish fulfillment that is exaberated by the consumer need for "more".
Driving people to ideological extremism can be very profitable in outright sales and in making government dysfunctional, which opens up new markets in the privatization of public services.
My OP's usually sink like a stone. This one was short but it pointed in a lot of directions, which seems to have pushed more discussion down into the thread.