A global pandemic.
An economic crisis.
A president flooding your feed with rage tweets.
Misinformation flooding every platform.
Fact-checkers couldn’t keep up—and most people just tuned out.
For many young voters, that first step into democracy didn’t feel empowering. It felt disorienting.
And here’s the problem: when confusion becomes the norm, people start gravitating toward clarity—even if it’s false.
That’s why online pipelines like the manosphere are growing.
They don’t offer truth—
they offer certainty.
They don’t teach thinking—
they offer blame.
Young men in particular are being targeted by sleek influencers who dress extremism up as empowerment.
Who call empathy weakness.
Who frame control as strength. And they’re doing it with high engagement and algorithmic reach.
This is the battlefield now—not just ballots, but belief systems.
We can’t let the loudest voices win by default.
That’s why I did Episode 8 called Red-Pilled and Radicalized. It’s a straight talk breakdown of how this culture grabs hold—and how we pull people back from the edge.
This isn’t about one election. It’s about every one that comes next.
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