It’s going that way everywhere.
Fascists have never had such a gift bestowed to them as the INTERNET.
Free market capitalism holds that the only way to measure the worth of something is whether it sells.
Lies sell, truth doesn’t.
More and more people are developing “worldviews” which are divorced from facts, context, and reality. More and more people are turning into headbangers.
Thus we are in the position we are in.