If, according to Sunstein and Vermeule, conspiracy theories can natu- rally be eliminated through liberal discourse and the marketplace of ideas, then for liberals to “have the better ideas and right beliefs” should theoretically suffice in persuading the unconvinced. However, as has now become clear, the liberal assumption that to “have the better ideas and right beliefs” is in fact barely sufficient as a persuasive strategy. Instead, we need to urgently and fully rise to the challenge that competing alt-right claims to reality are posing to societies. Indeed, on the eve of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Hari Kunzru contended that “this elec- tion is a contest not so much of ideologies as realities, dueling world-pictures that rely on different sources of information and are often not even vis- ible to adherents—perhaps a better word would be ‘inhabitants’—of the other.“ This buttresses my argument that what we need to focus on is winning this duel over competing realities with new and effective strategies.

— Vulnerable Minds - the Neuropolitics of Divided Societies von Liya Yu (Seite 28)