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I don't disagree but many people have the sense that there are no candidates willing to do anything to remedy any of our real problem. The perception is that th

by api 9y ago

I don't disagree but many people have the sense that there are no candidates willing to do anything to remedy any of our real problem. The perception is that the whole system is rigged for the benefit of the financial and political classes and no change is possible, so the only option impotent rage. I do think there's some truth in this. The structure of elections in the USA guarantees a two party system. Votes for third parties are just another kind of impotent rage since the two party system makes third party victory nearly impossible. Both major parties are so big and so entrenched that they're resistant to change, bureaucratically inbred, and beholden to massive sources of campaign cash.

krapp 9y ago
And yet, if the system were perfectly rigged, Hillary Clinton would have won, and Trump would never have been allowed to make it to the primaries by the oligarchs... or was he just another puppet of the establishment? Either Trump's election was completely futile, or an opportunity wasted on nihilism. It's difficult to have sympathy for people who feel disenfranchised from the political process, and who protest that process by choosing sabotage it to no specific end. Particularly when other groups who have been historically more directly harmed by the government have managed to succeed in creating progressive change, albeit slowly and at personal risk, and from the ground up. If Trump supporters care that little, then they should just stay home next time. After all, nothing they do can possibly matter, can it?