OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

[mongooz]

taught that things were supposed to work a certain way in favor of the people, and that the institutions of government were bigger than pure party politics. As such, it is really, really hard for me to look at this train wreck.

exactly.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

exactly.

Yes, but as @Gary Blanchard says, all of us being involved in the process and continuing (or starting) to become educated and vote is what improving this mess will take. Just not likely to happen on facebook.

 

[mongooz]

Yes, but as @Gary Blanchard says, all of us being involved in the process and continuing (or starting) to become educated and vote is what improving this mess will take.

i'm glad there are still some folks who believe the system hasn't been completely corrupted and bought off.

 

[GomezAddams]

This election year, I'm rather pining for the days of strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a system of government.

 

[mongooz]

This election year, I'm rather pining for the days of strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a system of government.

a one party system

 

[Steverino]

Candidates will be elected, and voters (and non-voters) will fuss, and others will be elated. The next election, the opposite happens. The pendulum swings back and forth. It's working. Never will we all be satisfied, it's never been that way. In our lives, it's harder than ever to ignore, but it can be done. I know many who are oblivious. Maybe they're on to something when it comes to just being in the dark and happy about it.

 

[mongooz]

I know many who are oblivious. Maybe they're on to something when it comes to just being in the dark and happy about it.

i think that's how we got in this position in the first place.

 

[Mark Wein]

http://usuncut.com/politics/idiocracy-writer-says-his-satire-of-america-has-become-reality/

 

[mongooz]

http://usuncut.com/politics/idiocracy-writer-says-his-satire-of-america-has-become-reality/

it would be a laugh riot.....if it weren't true. it IS depressingly tragic.

 

[jaxn slim]

people around the world looked at america as the place where torture did not happen. where mass spying on it's citizens did not happen. where the police did not gun down unarmed citizens in broad daylight with many onlookers and get away with it.

we do all those things now. just like USSR, China, NK, 1930's Germany, etc.
and it all came out of politicians grabbing at more power and control. we have become 1984.
we have become exactly what we accused the "axis of evil" of doing.

I'm pretty sure all of that has been happening for a very long time. There are two likely possibilities IMO. Either we were just better in the past at deluding ourselves (maybe with less information readily available), or we remember history more positively than it really was.

 

[wagdog]

'Murica!

Had to be said.

 

[Peen Simmons]

I'm pretty sure all of that has been happening for a very long time. There are two likely possibilities IMO. Either we were just better in the past at deluding ourselves (maybe with less information readily available), or we remember history more positively than it really was.

Anyone interested in this particular flavor of the illusion of American exceptionalism should read up on the American involvement in the Philippines. It's where water boarding got its start as a US tactic.

 

[smurfco]

I think I lost my Coco on the way to the bathroom this morning

 

[Chad]

Was it a grail shaped beacon, by any chance?

Maybe instead of everyone voting, we should just let a watery tart throw a sword at someone to make them president.

 

[mongooz]

Maybe instead of everyone voting, we should just let a watery tart throw a sword at someone to make them president.

i think that was already alluded to above.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Maybe instead of everyone voting, we should just let a watery tart throw a sword at someone to make them president.

At this point in history, it's as good a method as any.

 

[rhino]

Anyone interested in this particular flavor of the illusion of American exceptionalism should read up on the American involvement in the Philippines. It's where water boarding got its start as a US tactic.

Bro, that didn't happen "here." Still a shining beacon of light.







Dan Carlin has a pretty good episode in his podcast that talks about that. As someone who was always interested in history, I never knew how bad it was until college.

 

[smurfco]

Her eyes shine like piss-pools warmed in the moonlight

 

[Flamencology]

The 'both sides suck' mentality bothers me, to some degree.

Yes, it's true, but that doesn't mean that both options are both equally shitty. I'd rather be stabbed in the arm than shot in the chest.

 

[Flamencology]

And the 'shining beacon' was an aspiration, not a reality. Ask a black person, a gay man, a trans woman, etc.

By any international standard or index of civil rights and human development, the US hasn't led the world in my lifetime. For a president to acknowledge this is a good thing, not a bad thing.