People are not so much passive or obedient, as imitative. We all imitate or emulate those we admire. We don’t…

People are not so much passive or obedient, as imitative. We all imitate or emulate those we admire. We don’t have time to do everything for ourselves, so we have to choose others to follow. And the social media age doesn’t ’limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion’. 1/2 https://t.co/Y69zFLB38f

It goes the other way. It makes every single opinion acceptable. But corrals all of them on platforms where they’re incapable of being translated into any meaningful action. Populists then vacuum up followers, united behind enraged opinions. /end