[api]

I recall having this kind of thought when the whole Russian election meddling thing started to get talked about. This is a phase of globalization. Politics is now global.

If you're a large country and especially a superpower, everyone in the world has a stake in the outcome of your elections and political process. This means we should expect more and more foreign "meddling" in elections as well as direct meddling in the political process through foreign lobbying/bribery and covert methods.

Maybe what we're seeing is the beginning of the accretion process of a true global government. Eventually the people will realize that since politics is global political awareness must be as well. Campaigns could globalize. Then we're a few steps away from global political parties and then global government.

[maxerickson]

It's long been the case that large countries meddled. The change is that it isn't as asymmetric as it used to be. If your citizens are on Facebook, it doesn't take a lot of resources to mess with them.

[mistermann]

Indeed there is most likely some foreign influence in Western beliefs, but in the process perhaps we shouldn't overlook the broader reality of things which is that domestic organizations of various flavors allegedly have a long track record of actively persuading us to believe certain things. And then on top of that there's the complex nature of the human mind's perception of reality, how it forms beliefs based on a torrent of conflicting information, etc, and then the tricky problem that these phenomena are near-impossible to detect by the person who owns the mind.

[mattlutze]

National politics has been global for as long as we've had international trade. The way in which we experience that has changed though, and perhaps more of us now are able to see the extra-national players in any particular field.

[metiscus]

Look at the talk given by Yuri Bezmenov, this type of thing has been ongoing for a very long time.

[malandrew]

Any in particular that you would recommend as a place to start?

[CoffeeDregs]

Agreed with sibling. References would be great (I'd love to view them).

[metiscus]

https://youtu.be/KLdDmeyMJls

That's my main reference.