There is good in all. Even it may one day be seen in our friend the 45th President. As strange leaders go he's benign. Before you freak out. Benign by 20th/21st century standards. By long historical standards he's a Saint.
Glance through history, and you'll see.
I mean so far he hasn't exterminated, and or enslaved whole nation's, and peoples...though he has annoyed most of the world. Done that, and encouraged the worst parts of the republic. I say this to put our current strange state of the nation in perspective.
It has been profoundly worse.
It's infinitely worse as I post in most of the world. So chill. Chill. Calm down. Vote in the mid-terms then vote in 2020. That how it's done here. All the chaos frightful trends dark forecasts awfulness, and boring crap on TV is not the end of the world. In fact much of the world if they had our problems would think it was heaven on earth.
Compare Somali poverty to our Rust Belt or Urban underclass, and you'd see what I'm saying. Neither is how human beings should be made to live. However so far our level of 'want' still outstrips the alternatives. Here at least we have something to work with to heal it. I was going to say at least our poor have clean water. However that is becoming no longer true. Still we have real reason for hope. Hope in that the majority of the people here want this suffering fixed as fast as possible.
Our government does not.
Not so much because they're evil. Although I've seen a few individuals across the spectrum that fill the bill. It's mostly just traditional inertia stupidity greed, and uniformed choices. We have a confused divided dysfunctional government. We also have to power to change the whole mess into something slightly less fucked up.
That is the Hope.
So chill...I'm trying to.
Our government does not.
Not so much because they're evil. Although I've seen a few individuals across the spectrum that fill the bill. It's mostly just traditional inertia stupidity greed, and uniformed choices. We have a confused divided dysfunctional government. We also have to power to change the whole mess into something slightly less fucked up.
That is the Hope.
So chill...I'm trying to.
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Sorry to have to tell you Sidney, it is "the end". Sit back and chill baby, it's over.
"Mind near exhaustion still makes its final futile movement towards that 'way out or round or through the impasse'.
That is the utmost now that mind can do. And this, its last expiring thrust, is to demonstrate that the door closes upon us for evermore.
There is no way out, or round or through."
-H. G. Wells, "Mind at the End of Its Tether"
It's not over for everyone everywhere. But for the USA, yeah. If I had kids, I would take them overseas.
Z
Amerika is a land of scumbags. Stop the whitewash!
I mostly have headaches, and assorted sharp pains. This is the fog through which I follow the end of this Republic. This post was a bleary eyed attempt at positive thinking in this horror we're trapped in.
Leave me to my fantasies.
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