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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

No! America is a hellhole, and it's going down the crapper real fuckin' quick, and the world has no respect for it, and everybody in it is just weak! Why do you hate America?

hahaha -- as deleuze and guattari put it so well, the paranoid is the fascist

but beware of the danger of not seeing the opponent's perspective-- this is what happened with the brexit-- politicians failing to understand legitimate popular concerns.

both corporate parties have obscured their failure to cope with the challenges that technology and globalization have brought the middle and working classes. the promised land of endless service jobs did not arrive.

where other first-wold countries (e.g. germany) have prospered through a combination of industrial transformation and the concerted cultivation of a highly capable workforce, here in 'merica workers were abandoned to "free market" forces while the young were given infinite debt for random and useless inflated college degrees-- hello indentured servitude.

so while benito drumpf is a fucking casino conman with no real solutions, he's clever enough to speak to disenfranchised workers and appeal to their emotions. same as bernied did from the left. but he won his nomination.

the jobs created arent that great or else get eaten by debt, unemployment doesnt account for withdrawal from the workforce, the deficit may have shrunk but debt has skyrocketed, obamacare is the greatest policy achievement of the century but far from perfect and always under threat and costs keep rising, and we're forever entangled with the middle east in a permanent hatefuck--- now it's isis this and isis that and more surveillance and never-ending war and chinese money burnt on military hardware.

of course voting for clinton/kaine is a matter of duty at this point, and anyone saying otherwise is delusional. but damn, i feel that hillary is gonna pull a gore and we'll end up with some nostradamus-level shitstorm of the millenium.

i console myself only with the thought that human mass extinction will be a great thing for the planet.