re: #10 electrotek

Does anyone else agree that memes have ruined political literacy in this country? I even have been forced to post political memes on my Facebook for engagement as nobody bothers reading news articles aside from the headlines in the past few years

Memes aren’t necessarily any worse than political cartoons — and those have been around since our republic began. As to people not reading news articles — in many cases it’s because we have encountered a paywall. There are too many publications out there and most of us don’t have the resources to subscribe to every paper/magazine that interests us— especially when it’s only an occasional article that we would like to read.