Wrong ideas about democracy also lead to despair about the millions of followers of people like Trump, and…

Wrong ideas about democracy also lead to despair about the millions of followers of people like Trump, and Alex Jones. Because we believe democracy is some magical aggregation of all of our millions of views, we see Trump/Jones as apocalyptic mass stupidity and delusion. But,…/1 https://t.co/PDCQjJGSjC

…the good news is, it isn’t that at all. 5% or less of any group, at whatever scale, actually determines the direction the other 95+% of people will follow. You just have to target that 5%, to fix the problem. Not the 95%. Conservatives, themselves historically vastly…/2

…outnumbered by working people, know this very well. They know to target the leaders of movements that oppose them, they ignore things like mass protests. It’s what their tabloid media empires were actually set up to do. We could easily regulate to shut down most of the 5%…/3

…who create the impression of mass movements of freedom fighters. Basic media regulation, for example, standards in journalism that isn’t self-regulated. Strong regulation of social media platforms to do the same. It’s only a tiny number of agitators who create the mess. /end