{"id":24458,"date":"2020-09-12T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T16:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24458"},"modified":"2020-09-17T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T20:59:18","slug":"conspiracy-vs-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/12\/conspiracy-vs-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy vs. Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1769,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/time.com\\\/5887437\\\/conspiracy-theories-2020-election&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251207191559\\\/https:\\\/\\\/time.com\\\/5887437\\\/conspiracy-theories-2020-election\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 09:15:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 11:16:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 04:06:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 04:06:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5887437\/conspiracy-theories-2020-election\/\">How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  This matters not just because of what these voters believe but also because of what they don\u2019t. The facts that should anchor a sense of shared reality are meaningless to them; the news developments that might ordinarily inform their vote fall on deaf ears. They will not be swayed by data on coronavirus deaths, they won\u2019t be persuaded by job losses or stock market gains, and they won\u2019t care if Trump called America\u2019s fallen soldiers \u201closers\u201d or \u201csuckers,\u201d as the Atlantic reported, because they won\u2019t believe it. They are impervious to messaging, advertising or data. They aren\u2019t just infected with conspiracy; they appear to be inoculated against reality.<\/p>\n<p>  Democracy relies on an informed and engaged public responding in rational ways to the real-life facts and challenges before us. But a growing number of Americans are untethered from that. \u201cThey\u2019re not on the same epistemological grounding, they\u2019re not living in the same worlds,\u201d says Whitney Phillips, a professor at Syracuse who studies online disinformation. \u201cYou cannot have a functioning democracy when people are not at the very least occupying the same solar system.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election This matters not just because of what these voters believe but also because of what they don\u2019t. The facts that should anchor a sense of shared reality are meaningless to them; the news developments that might ordinarily inform their vote fall on deaf ears. They will not &#8230; <a title=\"Conspiracy vs. Democracy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/09\/12\/conspiracy-vs-democracy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Conspiracy vs. Democracy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028,2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}