Politics and Writing

It’s high time I address people who routinely visit (mainly my Facebook page). I don’t like Trump, and I don’t like what direction this country is going. As a writer, it’s known that some authors don’t mix politics with their writing. And that’s fine, we all have our beliefs, whether you follow politics or not. Pretty much, Trump’s economic moves have largely affected everybody, even the world. With the tariffs that only affect the issuing country, one would think that he would figure it out that the tariff threat is worse on his own country, rather than the foreign powers that he uses it against, which causes an unnecessary trade war where the common person is affected, not the politicians who don’t spend the money, or don’t have the money that they do to cushion themselves against the higher costs associated with a trade war, and it causes problems in the networked world economy that we live in.

But the problem is that some authors seem to dislike political posts (I’ve unfriended and unfollowed those who love Trump myself), either because it’s a natural view they oppose or for some other reason. I recently received a friend request, but I probably unfriended them because of their political posts. My own Mom doesn’t like it and, at least once a week, tells me to “Dump Trump,” not to mention him, and share cute pictures of cats, of which I am owned by a mini-panther named Miss Midnight. So overall, some have stayed through it and stayed “Friends” on social media. Believe it or not, I don’t go to Threads because it’s too much left-wing stuff. I’m a general Independent, so I can go either way, but I'm starting to lean more left than right, though. But the question is: Do I have to not post political stuff on my accounts? Who decides whether or not to post them? There is no rule saying I don’t or do have to post political statements (I am trans and sometimes share trans related or LGBTQIA+ related posts or memes). Overall, though, I see it as my account and do what I want.

But some vilify and witch hunt on social media, and I don’t worry about it too much. I check to see if I lost somebody during the day and pretty much guess (right or wrong) they got tired of my stuff and moved on. Which is fine, since you can only take so much of people’s crap anyway, so yeah, go ahead and leave, some will stay. But I don’t think I should be judged for my politics or for being an author. I really don’t. God forbid I care about my country and want to be informed (as well as want to inform others) that might lead to some meaningful change in this fight for sanity, mostly. I have gotten more political over the past few years, and it more or less reflects in my writing. For some books in the C Troop, 1/5 Kommandos series, I incorporate Trump, at least in some form or fashion, as the enemy dictator, president, or whatever. He’s so corrupt that I’ll be using him probably for a long time in my books. He’s just that bad to the nation that his attempts to “Make it Great Again” seem to fail brilliantly while we suffer on a daily basis. So maybe when he dies, I can look at others, but for now? He’s the main antagonist, if not a side antagonist, if you will.

So this brings us to the end of this blog, and I would like to know if you yourself use today’s or past politics in your writing? That seems a genuine question since you can use a lot of the lack of sanity that’s going on in American (or your country’s) politics. Overall, though, my feeling is that it’s okay to let people know your political beliefs and whether you’re a safe person, because it’s needed to know if you want to share ideas and have conversations as well. I don’t need snooty people belittling me because our president fails miserably at things, and we suffer for his incompetence. But I’ll post that in a meme, on my account.