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Honestly, it felt like reading Alice in wonderland on crack. By the time I got to the end it was all so fucking crazy I couldn't remember most of what was in it

Nobody reads anything longer than a paragraph, nobody watches anything longer than a youtube short linked on facebook.

We are here because we allowed comfort and convenience to rot all our collective brains. We are all accountable, we all had a role to play, even if tiny. We could have rallied together, we could have pushed community action and worked harder to preserve progressive ideology. We could have stopped giving so much freedom to the people trying to take away all our freedom. We could have stopped buying shiny new phones and cars and demanded products that last and union protections for our workers.

But no, we thought it was funny when 4channers started screaming about how evil feminists were and laughed it off instead of having their nests burnt down and we instead started our decades-long obsession scrolling for dopamine instead of involving ourselves with the people who run our communities.

If we had claimed the flag, if we had been the ones screaming about our rights to own guns and how we wanted to make america great, if we had been the ones getting arrested for plowing our cars into groups of nazis, we would be the ones with the muscle right now setting social policy. But just saying that is probably setting off some of ya'll and that's what the problem is.

I promise you, the other side isn't balking at rhetoric like that and are actively encouraging it, and have won every round because of it.

The problem is so much worse than voting. The last two election cycles showed the highest turnout of voters and young voters in recorded American history.

The problem was not that nobody voted, the problem was the voters had no idea what was going on or who to vote for because all our collective brains have scrolled right out our ears and people have atomized perspectives and don't interact with each other anymore, allowing our nation to curdle, to fester into a million little sub-groups where you face no challenges, no backlash, no accountability and your every delusion will have a fanbase.

We did all this while POURING money into the industrial complexes that only seek to sell you marginally better products that fall apart of become obsolete within a few years, powering the corporations that own our politicians.

The average median voter has no idea what's real or not, has no interest in policy, has no idea how policy even works or what our branches of government are, and has been scrolling for so long that they don't know how to be alone with their own thoughts. That's why Trump and his ilk are shredding the country apart right now. We didn't fight the idiots hard enough because we weren't social and involved enough to make them feel shame. We could have used shame as our mightiest weapon because they are radically insecure and scared of being shamed, but apparently our side was equally scared, so the dumb billionaires with too much wealth to even feel shame won out in the end.

Holy fuck, people just don't get how severe and horrible this administration is.

People used to say that Steve Jobs had a reality distortion field, but I think Trump is a thousand times worse.

It's so bad and the standards are so different between him and just about anybody else, sometimes the 0.01% chance that he's the world's best actor rather than an idiot and/or Russian asset scares me even more.

Give it a few decades and you might actually have that.

Yes, I believe this is something that will never happen

AmeriKa, replace the "c" with a capital "K"

Ive been trying for a chinamerica kind of thing. It hits a little harder to magats. And its really easy to draw the comparisons now.