Like I need off this forum. I want off this party, this forum, this whole interest in politics, at least until good sense reasserts itself.
Also this. There's just no decency and no order to things. It doesn't make sense. The whole thing reminds me that our institutions are not infallible things that help us "rise above" our own... materiality. In fact, they maybe amplify it. Because in the end, we're just f-cking animals. Equality, justice, rationality, fairness... they don't exist.
I really don't know where I go from here and where, like, the world goes from here. I feel empty.
Perhaps, now, you understand how folks who have lived in small towns, played by "the rules", and tried to live their lives as they believe God would have them felt when their jobs were uprooted by NAFTA.
Perhaps this election shows that there IS rationality, justice, equality, and fairness, only this time, it's someone else's turn for a dose.
We'll see what Trump does. I voted for him, and I'm happy he won, although I wouldn't be in sackcloth and ashes if he lost. But the folks who voted for Trump have legitimate grievances, and their grievances have been marginalized by those in power, and THEY have been marginalized, called "deplorable", and been, individually and collectively, insulted at every turn by folks who have contempt for the virtues that these folks do possess. Perhaps you'll see these people as no less human than the folks that seem to garner everyone's sympathy on these pages, and no less virtuous, for that matter.
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