I mean this in a serious way. Like, I'm so sick of the goddamn spectacle of these ghouls. They smile and lie to us with blood splattered on their faces, chanting their vacuous slogans, forming cults of personality. And every 4 years, we can't escape their names and poison words being drilled into our fucking heads from every angle. I'm tired, and sick of seeing their faces, I'm always sick of the stress of politics, but it just feels like additional screws being tightened for no discernable gain or benefit.
Yeah, imagine how the history books are going to remember this period
After 8 years, four under a wrinkly old monster who was republican, and four under a wrinkly old monster who was a Democrat, the people of the former United States decided that the whole idea of having a president was fairly silly. They would soon remove the position and after a brief period of unpleasantness, figure out some important things.
in my opinion, within the context of bourgeois democracy, a parliamentary proportional representation system is the best. in that it can force the bigger parties into coalitions with smaller ones. it'll actually cause your PSL/Green vote to actually count. But obviously neither of the major parties wants it.
The American 'democracy' is one of the least democratic ones.
Ideally with some sort of mechanism to ensure the party makeup in parliament matches the overall percentages of the vote, otherwise you end up with the UK where half the time the Tories get like 70% of the seats with like 30% of the vote
president or prime minister or king doesn't matter; participating in politics is a requirement as a functional adult in this world that most of us hate like paying taxes or selective service.
it's their job to get you to do what they want and it's your job to make sure it's right for you and figure out how to resist if it isn't; this country is in a mess because people aren't doing that second part.
i hate it as much as you do; but i recognize that i have to.
no i don't; i identified with some of the thoughts you shared and shared my own along with my coping strategy in the hopes that it would help and it fell so flat that it was deleted by a moderator.