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I'm really getting over the enshitification of the internet. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Or people could stop thinking small.

Back in the day, the GOP was completely controlled by Big Business. A guy named Jerry Falwell saw how Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy had gotten him elected and jumped in. He organized his people at the grassroots level. If there was a local Republican club that got 20 people at the average meeting, Jerry's church group would show up with fifty. At the start, they were getting dog catchers and county clerks in, but eventually their power grew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority