FICTION WRITERS FOR BETTER MISINFORMATION SEEKS TO USE MISINFORMATION TO GET VOTERS MORE ENGAGED IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS. WE WELCOME PROPOSALS FOR BOOKS, MOVIES, PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS, REALITY TV SHOWS.

 

The Problem: Each side perceives the other side’s candidate as, well, “The Other”—strange, unAmerican, and possibly unnatural. This leads to alienation between the parties and the sense that we can never bridge the differences to work together.

The Proposal: A documentary research project will uncover startling facts about both candidates and their family backgrounds, forcing hard-core partisans to realize that both men are really alien. For instance, did you know that Obama has risen so quickly to the top here in America because he can relate to white people? Growing up in Kenya, his family owned white slaves kidnapped from Ivy League college towns. Sometimes, he would hand feed them fruit. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney, in his youth, was a part of a Mormon “special ops squad” that infiltrated evangelical Bible study groups in the Deep South and tricked them into wearing unholy underwear and contemplating, in lurid detail, the benefits of polygamy in this life and beyond. As the documentary traces both men’s family lines back it finds such oddities as a great-great-great-grandfather of Obama’s who paid slave ships to take Africans into bondage and a great-aunt of Romney’s who once flirted with Karl Marx. Finally, after outlining painstaking research, the documentary shows that both Romney and Obama are descended from a single spore of an extraterrestrial “devilweed” that blew to Earth from Polaris between 500,000 and 750,000 years ago. Every claim in the documentary is supported with indisputable animated reenactments.