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"I have a friend that is a "Bernie Bro." Basically, everyone sucks; right, left, etc."

That isn't completely wrong. Bernie Sanders was refreshing because he didn't feel such a big part of the machine. I also hate the way everything is being turned into two polar opposites all the time as if there are not other ways and viewpoints, it feels to me as this is one way that the masses are controlled.

One thing I noticed when I set up my current YouTube account was that YouTube was trying to work out which of two routes to send me down... One very pro-Democrat, CNN/MSNBC and so on, and the other very pro-Republican, Fox etc. I was not interested in either of these, and am not an American, so that is not my circus anyway. It constantly shows me far right (and more rarely far left) content... And within a UK context, it's always about Labour, Tories and Reform type content, occasionally the English Greens... Never about the SNP or even Lib Dems, let alone the Scottish Green Party. This is without getting into the non-party political rabbitholes YouTube will try and drag you into.

The best way I could deal with these RepDem ragebait videos was constantly to click "not interested" on such things. I have a friend who is educated and intelligent, but spends an inordinate amount of time on Trumpbait videos and what looks like NATO propaganda (which has been saying the Ukraine war is about to finish for the past four years at least). I am not a fan of Trump, but I'm not going to watch some hack like Jimmy Kimmel rant about him for twenty minutes. They are not serious political analysis and are based more around mudslinging and personality attacks than actual policy and ideology. It has affected my friend's mental health a lot and I've told him off for it. He is totally out of touch with our local and national political scene now.