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I think you vastly underestimate the power AI persuasion: AI is 60% more persuasive than humans when it has personal information about the human.. It is also much easier to reach people online than face to face since considerable segments of the society. Fascists, autocracies, and the right-wingers in general are very much aware of this which is why they are flooding social media.
The effects of their strategy are clearly visible and IMO they are undeniable. Once somebody has joined their ranks and been poisoned not only with their rhetoric but also their way of thinking, it's very difficult to get them back out. They are basically taught who to trust, that science is bad, and how to react when brought in contact with facts or reality. Reaching somebody like that in real life is very difficult.
If we simply ignore what's going on and insist the way to solve it is to deal with it slowly, steadily and locally, then we have already lost - or we have made our lives significantly harder that way.
Not only that, we can't agree on what idea to push. The right-wingers have one quite clear and unified message: fuck outsiders, they are dangerous, we don't want them as they destroy the fabric of our pure and right society, and they make your life shit. That's the biggest message they have. Anti-trans, anti-queer, anti-immigrant, anti-... rhetoric just fits perfectly into that. Meanwhile, we are here screaming about inequality, climate change, animal welfare, social injustice, the wealth gap, women this, men that, capitalism is shit and here are 1 million ways to solve it with no single solution camp agreeing with another.