How much of the current state of politics is due to the rise of social media and the 'interference' by propagandists/protagonists? Especially by foreign state secret services. Both sides must admit that the political campaigns have been affected of late, not just the European Referendum, but the last US election, many European elections etc with the rise of the far right.
We all know that the far right parties in the UK posted 'innocent' memes of abused animals to garner their attraction to a wider attraction then turning up their hateful rhetoric through FMG to Halal food and then further, conditioning the wider audience to more hateful ideas that they would not normally think. My nephew said to me that because I didn't 'like' a particular far right party, I must therefore want all women to suffer FMG or all my food to be Halal. He was brainwashed!
Politicians of today have been affected by this by their language.(I'm leaving Trump out of this argument as her's not a true politician, just a megalomaniac) Boris Johnson speaking about 'letterboxes' to describe Muslim women is abhorrent. He would not have said this 10 years ago, but they have stooped so low to garner support from where ever they can get it from. This I find disturbing and in all honesty