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“Being wrong isn’t about believing factually inaccurate pieces of information, its not even about believing lies people tell us. It’s about our psychological and social needs. Our need to understand our world (comprehension), have agency within it (control), and feel socially connected to people on our team (community). And when endless dimensions of identity all fit together in a little partisan package, this multidimensional political MAGA identity influences all three needs.
We look to comprehend our world in ways that advantage our team. We seek to control our world in ways that benefit our team. And we think and behave in ways that better connect us to our team. When false belief satisfy these needs, we will embrace them, even demand them.”
― Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation

“The internet’s emancipation of the individual enables under represented communities to speak, organize, and act, enabling movements — reformations, even revolutions in the name of racial, gender, economic, legal, and environmental equity and justice. The existing, white power structure — in the person of the far right — counterattacks, burning the fields so as not to share their harvest with those who follow. They undermine the institutions of journalism, science, education, free and fair elections, democracy itself, and civility.

Thus when conservatives attack institutions, liberals find themselves in the position of having to defend those institutions. The conservatives are now the insurrectionists, the liberals are now conservative. The world has turned upside down and inside out. The old labels are ever more meaningless.”
― Jeff Jarvis, The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet