2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)No. It's not "hate". It's DISAPPOINTMENT. [View all]
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It's DISAPPOINTING to be told that one's country's military influence is to be expanded and developed after over a decade of consequences from a disastrous, cruel and bullying intervention in the history of an innocent people.
It's DISAPPOINTING to be told that one is supposed to vote for someone based on what they are instead of what they intend to do.
It's DISAPPOINTING to hear people invent baseless perception problems of an honest candidate when they are alone in an entire system driven by phoniness and dishonesty.
It's DISAPPOINTING to see fellow lefties "play the game" that was originally invented by Republicans and patting themselves on the back for scoring points in a sickly, neurotic, anti-human process.
It's DISAPPOINTING to hear grown adults talk about whole demographics as if they are populated exclusively by mindless lumps of Play-Doh incapable of listening to anyone or anything that doesn't remind them of themselves.
It's DISAPPOINTING to make honest attempts to clear the way for better politics only to be confronted with a tsunami of babyish riffs on the theme of "you have whatever personality flaw I need to pretend you have to make my behaviour look reasonable to myself and your ideas dismissable as fantasy".
And above all (and I say this as s Scotsman in Edinburgh with no real right to say it to any of you good people...)
It's DISAPPOINTING, CRUELLY SO, to see the wonderful nation I have admired and respected for so long, the source of so much powerful thought and beautiful acheivement for decades (you may think you're a country of fascists and righties, hah! BULLSHIT - the Constitution, the Civil Rights Movement, Stonewall, the reconstruction of Europe post WWII, "One step for Man, a giant leap for Mankind", Iraq Vets Against the War (there is no similar movement of equivalent size and significance anywhere in Europe!), Chomsky... I could go on and on) abandon itself over and over again to exactly the same point-scoring, inward-looking, antidemocratic, prejudiced, class-and-character-based cynicism that its inhabitants crossed oceans to escape!!!
It's the same stupid, oppressive garbage that's plagued Europe for centuries. It's just better lit and on a bigger stage.
MORE screwy bank shenenigans. MORE wars. MORE faux politicians. MORE faux concern. MORE shadowy campaign finance. MORE posturing. MORE lies.
It's DISAPPOINTING.