The reason FDR got elected back then was because while the people were generally uneducated, newspapers had educated people who did the leg work for them and presented them with facts.
Billionaires buying all newspapers and turning them into propaganda rags ends that.
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This is less about voters being dumb and more about the opposition party being incompetent (by design)
The reason FDR got elected back then was because while the people were generally uneducated, newspapers had educated people who did the leg work for them and presented them with facts.
Billionaires buying all newspapers and turning them into propaganda rags ends that.
Was the press better then? Sure, but not the order of magnitude required for the gap in outcomes between then and now. Not even close.