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Zen is when you get to hit people with sticks whenever they ask you questions.  Cram suggested this years ago, and I endorse it.

Not woo in the sense that I'm not sure I totally believe this, but I was thinking about how trump has basically bankrupted the Secret Service and it made me think (as I now often have to, these days) about Transmetropolitan. specifically the part where Spider Jerusalem is able to corner "The Beast" in the bathroom because he also bankrupted his Secret Service. At the time, I thought this was wildly unrealistic, because what president would be dumb enough to skimp on his own personal protection, especially when he's so hated? (Hold for laughs)But then, that got me thinking, if Trump is The Beast, and in Transmetropolitan, The Beast is replaced by the Smiler, then who the fuck is the Smiler, IRL? Then my friend piped in, "Well, Mike Pence smiles a lot", and my heart sank......


GODDAMMIT GRANT MORRISON, WHAT HAVE YOU WROUGHT WITH YOUR CARELESS HANDS! 

Warren Ellis.

Just over a year ago, progressives and Democratic voters had a chance to really change things - to reform not just the Democratic party, but the country as well. Establishment Politics was the theme of Election 2016, and the Established Left shot themselves in the foot trying to stamp out the revolution.

They blew an election that they should have had in the bag.

Meanwhile, American progressives, in their march towards acceptance and equality, found themselves unsatisfied with all of the accomplishments they had made over the last eight years and actually began to alienate those to the right by entitling themselves to a brand of political correctness so far ahead of its time that even the moderates found themselves unable to defend it. Identity politics mixed with a right-wing paranoia of losing cultural control and created the Alt-Right, a band of misfits and misanthropes who not only delighted in triggering the left into abandoning their civility, but were masters of navigating the means to do so.

Winning that election empowered them to come out in full force and declare their pride in revisionist monuments to dead men who fought on the wrong side of history; a history that the cities they reside in have finally begun to evolve beyond. But it wasn't enough to show up in a sea of blinding whiteness. They came out in full cosplay as the one thing the left hates most.

And the progressives, so easily distracted, didn't take this opportunity to reexamine their ideology or the political party that had cannibalized itself in vain. They didn't try to figure out where they went wrong or why they lost. Instead, the radicals shouted "Hey, everyone! Look at the Nazis!"

And they looked.

The parties are built on not being the other guy, not about what they are for, but it's been this way for awhile, it's just exploded to this level of loud, screeching gridlock.  And so we're now in the period where both parties are going to, not elect the person with the best platform and ideals, but the one who's best at being a carnival barker.

The solution? There is no solution. 

Buckle up and enjoy going nowhere.

Welcome to all of humanity's political history.

And yet the wheels somehow stay on the cart.

Gaslighting ain't what it used to be.   

And the progressives, so easily distracted, didn't take this opportunity to reexamine their ideology or the political party that had cannibalized itself in vain. They didn't try to figure out where they went wrong or why they lost. Instead, the radicals shouted "Hey, everyone! Look at the Nazis!"

And they looked.

Also, Nazis are the fault of the democrats.   

No, but the media attention they've gotten lately is.

That's a mighty fine dog-whistle you have there.

Just over a year ago, progressives and Democratic voters had a chance to really change things - to reform not just the Democratic party, but the country as well. Establishment Politics was the theme of Election 2016, and the Established Left shot themselves in the foot trying to stamp out the revolution.

BLAH BLAH BLAH HERE'S HOW BERNIE CAN STILL WIN

BLAH BLAH BLAH HERE'S HOW BERNIE CAN STILL WIN THIS FORUM IS MY OUTHOUSE AND I DIDN'T EVEN PRETEND TO READ THE ACTUAL CONTENT OF THE POST

You seem upset.

Did we hurt your feelings?

Scotsmen don't have feelings.  They lack the necessary glands, instead having extra glands for "drinking", "rage", and "happy-slapping".

Seeing a pattern, here.

Gaslighting ain't what it used to be.   

Seeing a pattern, here.

Never mind that this system that doesn't work has led the country to be on the top of the global shit heap for 220 years¹.  I mean, what has The Establishment™ ever accomplished?  I mean, aside from massive infrastructure, public libraries, a few trips to the moon, reusable spacecraft, and other assorted useless shit that nobody cares about?




¹ May not apply to everyone.  Mgt reserves the right to brutalize minorities that get upset about this.  Just like every society ever.

Also, for what it's worth, Social Justice - whatever it started out as - is just another bullshit artificial hierarchy, not unlike Wicca.

I hate to necro the drama,

Then don't.

And the progressives, so easily distracted, didn't take this opportunity to reexamine their ideology or the political party that had cannibalized itself in vain. They didn't try to figure out where they went wrong or why they lost. Instead, the radicals shouted "Hey, everyone! Look at the Nazis!"

And they looked.

Also, Nazis are the fault of the democrats.   

Just over a year ago, progressives and Democratic voters had a chance to really change things - to reform not just the Democratic party, but the country as well. Establishment Politics was the theme of Election 2016, and the Established Left shot themselves in the foot trying to stamp out the revolution.

BLAH BLAH BLAH HERE'S HOW BERNIE CAN STILL WIN

Okay, that's the sort of thing we need around here.

TGRR,
Blind to irony.