• Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    Yeah. But they’re not. Usually.

    Interestingly that’s more a function of media more than politics. Political movement “in a vacuum” doesn’t require popularity. But since we have put political power in the hands of everyone vs a king or whatever, the media is the ocean in which politics “swims”.