I have always been a bit too optimistic for my own good. In recent years, however, I find that an increasingly difficult part to play. Despite their efforts having failed once in the last two attempts (though he gained well over a million fewer votes than his opponent in each of those), it is apparent that the prostituted media are determined to return a grotesquely unqualified elderly pervert (back in the ’70s and ’80s, a person like Donald Trump was referred to as a “dirty old man”) back into the White House. As the preponderance of the world’s wealth is in the hands of those who actively promote transactional “politicians” (I put that in quotes, as many shitbags will at least do us the courtesy of gaining a minimal competence at lawmaking – people like Paul Ryan, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, or Elise Stefanik – whereas a pathetic idiot like Trump couldn’t even be bothered to read a brochure on the job throughout a four year tenure) who will do the requisite bidding to increase their fraction of the total increase, I finding it a nearly insuperable struggle to believe that there is even the most forlorn hope for democracy.

When people look to the aggressively ignorant (such as Joe Rogan) to find foundational knowledge and look to the imbecilic (such as Donald Trump) for leadership and wisdom, we cannot expect anything better a future than that embodied in the regimes of Stalin or Hitler.