I (tacitly) left Facebook for Mastodon because...Well, it's Facebook. But also, since I'm not about to waste my time trying to convince MAGA trolls, it was just an echo chamber, good for support when you need it but bad for facing - or in any way affecting -our current dysfunctional reality.

Now, on Mastodon, I again find I'm mostly interacting with people who think as I do. For instance, @jonesmurphy, nothing you're saying is news to me. I think the sane assessment is that MAGA is an incurable (and maybe terminal) disorder, and it strikes me that the people who need to be swayed, moved, WOKEN THE F--K UP, are the well-meaning, hand-wringing, financially-ok people who hover between complacency and fear of dislodging the last wheel on the applecart.

They can't stay involved or watch what passes for news, and are just desperately hoping this all "blows over." There are SO many in my liberal suburban village - and we really need to find some way to motivate them before their refusal to take a stand lands us in the 4th Reich. How do we do that?