RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@mloxton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mloxton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gwynnion</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>Also, people aren't rational. [<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a>]</p></blockquote><p>There's a propaganda machine out there that entertains and is exciting, but also convinces people that all other viewpoints are wrong or are attacking them or their beliefs. </p><p>When you know people in the bubble as I do, (Latino, immigrants) you know it isn't irrational. They've been played. Their education and traditions have been used against them, and don't discount peer pressure. It's a bubble. They're convinced they know better than you. It's enough people to tip elections, and it runs on corporate greed supplemented by billionaire fuel. </p><p><em>Concentrating on destroying people's trust in the propaganda they love</em> is what we as an any kind of <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/entertainment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>entertainment</span></a> or information provider must accomplish. Complaint about people's weaknesses or mistakes misses the point.</p><p>We must strive to educate and figure out ways to remove the blinders on the horses hitched to the cart of fascism, <em>and spook them.</em></p><p>This argument is also relevant for the tens of millions who don't vote, who as a group could determine an election any way they'd please. What failed for them is not so easily characterized. </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/journalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalist</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/screenwriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>screenwriter</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/videographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videographer</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a>, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/graphic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>graphic</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/novelist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novelist</span></a>; <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <br> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>