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I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

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People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"

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People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

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Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

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Things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth. Politicians might mention renewable energy, and the public will think, "That sounds good, but I don't believe they're going to do everything they can to build those towers. "

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This is what's so hard about our current politics: things poll well, but people don't believe that politicians are telling the truth.

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One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

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