As I dash out these political posts, I find I’ve forgotten some points I’d originally meant to include.  Another one on “how to not fear conservatives”:  Many of us are wondering “How can they believe these asinine paranoid ludicrous things?”  It’s important to note, they’re living in a bubble that is very hard to penetrate.  And if you were experiencing the same carefully curated “reality” as US conservatives, you’d be hard-pressed to see the dangers those beliefs pose to people, to the country, to the world.

This comes from tv, newspapers, billboards, magazines, popular musicians, and screaming loud a thousand decibels out of the internet.  I think, in the name of focused advertising and improving “engagement,” almost every social media platform does its best to make sure we only see things that we will find agreeable, based on shit like, where we live and who’s on our friends list, etc etc.  Of course they wanna reach across the aisle to show us nazi content sometimes, but probably got bots to calculate what’s the maximum amount of that we’ll tolerate before we log out permanently.

All this is to say, there may be more or less normal, friendly, non-horrifying people, who are just thick as two planks and taking the world around them as they can see it.  Those are not people who are coming to kill you with machetes and pitchforks.  A lot of them would be in the camp my husband calls “Dorito voters” – if they got stung economically between elections, they vote for the other party and hope that’ll fix it.

World-ruining fools, but somebody is fooling them, and nobody deserves to get fooled.  If a meaningful revolution ever comes along, it will require scrupulous regulations on political advertising to keep this dogshit from happening again.

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