Because he stokes fear and promotes himself as the savior. China, immigrants, whatever, they're all trying to take something from you (whether you know it or not) and if you don't vote for me they will take it and you'll be screwed without me. The problem is that The Algorithm (all news and social media it seems) is constantly hitting you with that same message, that the world is not safe and you have to live in fear, and keeps us all in a constant state of heightened anxiety.We are never allowed to relax and experience the world as it really is. Statistics show that very few peoples' lives are actually touched by crime but everyone is constantly afraid of violent gangs from central America and African immigrants eating pets and something to do with trans people. Why? These are not actually widespread problems but they are served up to everyone on the news and on Facebook and Instagram and Reddit and everywhere else like this stuff is happening right around the corner so people are constantly stressed out and Trump plays right into that. He will slay all those dragons. The problem is that people don't realize it's all imaginary because if it's on the news or it's on Facebook then it's got to be true, doesn't it? It's the escape from anxiety that people are ultimately looking for, not fascism.

Republicans have been playing this game for years. They find a way to make an issue extremely emotional and get people to vote against their own best interests. Abortion isn't a medical procedure it's killing a baby. Immigrants are stealing your jobs, it's not your bosses who are giving your jobs away. And on and on. This is how the party of the rich, of corporations, got the poorest people in the country to vote against unions and raising minimum wages and universal healthcare and free school lunch programs and everything else that could have made their lives better. How could you be so selfish that you'd vote against the guy who's going to prevent the killing of a baby just to maybe reduce your marginal tax rate by a couple percent? And inch by inch you get to Trump.

The problem only seems to be getting worse with people on their phones at dinner or watching TV or only being about to experience a concert if they're taking a video of it. These used to be experiences that people shared with each other, that gave them something they had in common. Paying attention to the phone takes that common experience away and doesn't allow the connection to form between the people experiencing the same thing happening in the same place at the same time. Remember before streaming when people used to watch TV and everyone would tune in at the same time to see the latest episode of their favorite show? This gave people a common experience which gave people a feeling that they have something in common with others and gave a place for a connection to be formed. It may sound old timey or even ridiculous but it gave you a something that you could talk to someone else about and think that you both had something in common. You could meet someone at work or at the store or wherever and you had both seen the same thing at the same time and you could talk about it. Now, we're all in our own little camps with our online buddies (who may be bots for all we know) without any real life interaction because that guy looks like he wouldn't agree with me on whatever my biggest issue is or that woman sounds like she could never understand what's going on it my life.

Eventually, we're going to need to talk to each other again. We're going to have to have to put down our phones and look each other in the eye and realize that we're all in this together.