Number or proportion? Because there were around 30 million immigrants in 2000, and around 45 million in 2020. If the raw number went up and proportion went down, or the counting method changed, as it did under GWB leading to Obama’s increased numbers, it’s much trickier to tell whether harm was increased.
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That’s a good link, thanks for the nuance.
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The author doesn’t have the character limit or the audience the attention span to consider propaganda. But, we do.
Scaled acceptance of factual and logical inconsistency isn’t a bug. It’s a feature.
The will of the people, given to them by the leaders they believe in, is short term psychological comfort. The people are already violently rejecting facts and reason, attacking those who voice them, ensuring their safety on whichever of the false dichotomy bandwagons. By marketing factual and logical inconsistency as the basis for the only physically non-violent choice, leaders and puppeteers reinforce and widen the scope of will they may provide the people.
I’m pulling from Bernays, The Engineering of Consent. Orwell’s 1984 is a sorta’ intro to the textbook.
And as population continues to grow, and the world gets shittier the numbers will continue to rise.