I keep to my word and didn't vote for Hillary. Trump is the worst presidential candidate of maybe all time and a amazingly despicable human being, and I fear for my country, but I also have no regrets in my choice. It was a choice made out of principles, and frankly the outcome isn't on people like me. We are not to blame. I don't do the wrong things for a tactical or strategic advantage, so there was no way I was voting for Clinton either. That screws you over some times in life, but people caving in and doing it is a great factor in making the world a bad place. Plus, I'm tired of being the part of the lesser of two evils.
Maybe this will be a message for the Democrats to get their act together. Their base while bigger isn't as fanatical as the Republicans, but maybe there is a reason for it. They went from a party of the people to a party whose virtual motto was, "Hey, we're not quite as bad for most of you as the other guys." Golly gee you mean to tell me that really doesn't fire people up or make them enthusiastic. People are apathetic or distrusting of a system that is against and doesn't care about them because it doesn't. Who could have figured that out? Banking on being slightly less corrupt isn't a worthwhile strategy. They don't have the fundamentalist nut jobs to support them, so being a party of the people is their only advantage. Who knows maybe the U.S. people are just getting what they deserve. In some way we do have it coming. The American people. It's strange loving people while being forced to admit that most of those people have let themselves become willfully ignorant and stupid. A great number are scumbags. I just hope we are smart enough to learn...but I doubt it. Our conviction and giving a damn about our countrymen erodes ever more as time goes on, and it was never great to begin with. We are either selfish or just don't give a damn or both.
When people are no less meaningfully poor years from now, have even less individual rights, are ruled over even more by the elite, and are still desperate I hope they look back and enjoy the snake oil they so readily bought into because they let themselves be manipulated by somebody that was probably even dumber they they were. I will take no satisfaction from it, as despite what some might think I really do want the best for everybody, maybe even more for them than even for myself. As I get older I've come to realize my life is more and more a lost cause with no time left to fix it, so me going down and losing in the game of life might not be that big of a deal anymore, even fore myself. I look at others though, the ones where there is still hope for them and I worry.
Plus, don't blame me I wanted that Burnie guy. I would have actually voted for him.
Maybe this will be a message for the Democrats to get their act together. Their base while bigger isn't as fanatical as the Republicans, but maybe there is a reason for it. They went from a party of the people to a party whose virtual motto was, "Hey, we're not quite as bad for most of you as the other guys." Golly gee you mean to tell me that really doesn't fire people up or make them enthusiastic. People are apathetic or distrusting of a system that is against and doesn't care about them because it doesn't. Who could have figured that out? Banking on being slightly less corrupt isn't a worthwhile strategy. They don't have the fundamentalist nut jobs to support them, so being a party of the people is their only advantage. Who knows maybe the U.S. people are just getting what they deserve. In some way we do have it coming. The American people. It's strange loving people while being forced to admit that most of those people have let themselves become willfully ignorant and stupid. A great number are scumbags. I just hope we are smart enough to learn...but I doubt it. Our conviction and giving a damn about our countrymen erodes ever more as time goes on, and it was never great to begin with. We are either selfish or just don't give a damn or both.
When people are no less meaningfully poor years from now, have even less individual rights, are ruled over even more by the elite, and are still desperate I hope they look back and enjoy the snake oil they so readily bought into because they let themselves be manipulated by somebody that was probably even dumber they they were. I will take no satisfaction from it, as despite what some might think I really do want the best for everybody, maybe even more for them than even for myself. As I get older I've come to realize my life is more and more a lost cause with no time left to fix it, so me going down and losing in the game of life might not be that big of a deal anymore, even fore myself. I look at others though, the ones where there is still hope for them and I worry.
Plus, don't blame me I wanted that Burnie guy. I would have actually voted for him.
