If everyone votes egotistical, you will get an egoist in power and everyone loses except the egoist in power.

That's what I keep saying: Trump isn't the problem, he's a symptom.

And the disease is that a majority of voting Americans are either morally bankrupt and gullible enough to overlook all that Trump did and said and elect him, or actively fascist.

And that's why, when people tell me I need to "make space" for those people and give them an exit ramp, so that when Trump finally turns on them too, and they realize what they done did, the nation can heal and come back together, I say: fuck this shit.

I don't want to make space for immoral morons and fascists. These people deserve what they're about to get, and what they've inflicted on the rest of us who didn't sell out, and they'll never come back from the moral quagmire that made them think it's a-okay to elect a fascist POTUS.

Never ask a man his salary

Never ask a woman her age

Never ask what George Orwell was doing in Myanmar in the 1920s

Kind of? Many of them, if not most, are also victims of the same system that indoctrinated them. Like an awful, evil feedback loop of victimization.

Not to say that makes it okay ofc, but all people are fallible and all can be cast as fools under the right circumstances, which is just a very important thing to remember at times like these.

In 2016 both Hillary and Trump had a lower than 50% approval rating and yet they were the frontrunners: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/

Congress has a less than 50% approval rating and it's made up of elected politicians: https://www.statista.com/statistics/207579/public-approval-rating-of-the-us-congress/

We don't have a democracy, we have a system where you can only choose which representative for billionaires you dislike the least. They're all corrupt, any that aren't are quickly drowned out by well-funded opposition.

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).

Try saying this yourself, without a famous pen name to append after it, and people call you absurd, extreme, unrealistic, violent.

... I call those people cowards.

All according to plan so farmland can be bought up by large corporations and billionaires. They want to control and commodify every aspect of survival.

On the one hand yeah sure, but on the other hand in the USA youre an accomplice if you didnt vote or if you wasted your vote on a 3rd party.

Vote for baddy, your fault. Vote for less baddy, youre propping up the system. Vote for good guy, you wasted your chance to vote against baddy. Dont vote, you wasted your chance yo vote against baddy.

Everyone gets the boot on the neck, everyone gets the blame, there are no winners

In some cases.

In other

Is this a shitpost?

This includes people who give everyone shit for not voting for the “lesser” corruption. Accomplices all.

How is this a shitpost?

The people represent the government, i am ashamed of my people.

Or mabye im not, here in Italy the meloni got elected by only 40% of the people, only beacouse of a law made by the DC

I got the book 1984 for $1 on Kobo a couple months ago

Still haven't read it. (Surely next year)

Yeah, it's your personal responsibility to vote for the "good" candidate, with voting for the "bad" candidate being an individual's moral and mental failure as opposed to it being caused by shifting material conditions, crises or simply just failure of liberal political side to garner enough support or them targeting only the affluent middle-class intelligentsia.

Why don't everyone just vote for the good guys, are they stupid?