Democracy solves it. If people don’t vote in these people, they don’t get the platform.
Now, how do we get people to not vote in bigots and idiots? By not being bigots and idiots themselves. I.e. education and free thinking.
How do we protect education from budget cuts and protect free thinking from corporate and foreign interests that seek to undermine it, especially while the bigots still have a tenuous hold on the population? Now, that is the real question.
Democracy solves it. If people don’t vote in these people, they don’t get the platform.
Now, how do we get people to not vote in bigots and idiots? By not being bigots and idiots themselves. I.e. education and free thinking.
How do we protect education from budget cuts and protect free thinking from corporate and foreign interests that seek to undermine it, especially while the bigots still have a tenuous hold on the population? Now, that is the real question.
That’s not really true, unfortunately. People don’t need to be in an elected position to be given a platform by media.
That’s true, but at least those people don’t have direct political power.
But the end result is the platform influences voters leading to election of those or similar individuals.