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The sad truth is a large number of people are happy to do a 'Your Party', all over again to the Greens, if it gets retweets and likes. The incentives for thoughtful political strategy are just simply not there any more, which is why long form content, books and events have NEVER been more important. It's extraordinary how you repeatedly see the same thing, with people sincerely believing their X feed is reality: Stop Brexit - because everyone secretly wants it stopped; the radical right thinking Restore will displace Farage; people involved in your party, who crashed it, dismissing the Greens - a party which actually won 4 MPs and almost 1000 councillors - as useless. From the outside all of this looks ridiculous. These spaces are built for conflict, which itself drives engagement (the point is to sell ads after all) which in turn creates seriously distorted thinking. If you think the little numbers at the bottom of these takes represent anything of significance - good luck!