It feels all but certain that I won’t be able to enjoy a prosperous life or get to retire. All of the wealth is going straight to the top. All of the opportunities to move up in the world are being rug-pulled. All of the federal agencies that help keep us safe and healthy are gone. The social safety net is getting flushed down the toilet. We will live in disease and squalor, and the most vulnerable of us will die.
Because I dared to not be a sociopath, I and anyone else who voted for sanity will be deemed enemies of the state and hunted down - which won’t be hard, because it would be trivial to build the most robust surveillance state in human history if it doesn’t exist already.
I myself have disabilities (which I don’t think qualify for benefits) that make it hard, but not impossible, to find a job. The problem is that I just can’t bring myself to do it because I don’t get what the fucking point is anymore. I have to work so hard to get out of this rut just for some fascist fuck to kill me or toss me into a torture facility before I can even experience life on my own.
Have you been in a similar headspace and were able to escape it? If so, what snapped you out of it?
I will never consider voting for a 3rd party candidate until their parties get someone elected to a local school board, a city council, a state legislative body, or the US congress. This is the foundational necessity of how our body politic functions. Running random asshole foreign assets for the Presidency on occasion is not how you operate a political party in this country and not how you affect any change (except making things worse, so… uh, good job Russia).
3rd party candidates literally only ever run for the Presidency in the US. (source: I live here)
They also generally purport to be far left leaning candidates (although this year’s crop leaves much to question). But really, they just take people’s money, complain about the status quo, and do literally nothing to help move things toward their (supposedly desired end) the political left.
Instead they (at best) steal some votes from young morons that would’ve likely gone to more liberal tickets (Democrats) and (at worst) enable the centrist and right wing machine to further dismantle any validity of the notion of “people should be allowed to not be taken advantage of by billionaires.”
Please tell me where any effort by the green or socialist parties successfully got a down ballot candidate elected in the past 10, 15, 20 years. Please tell me.
They are charlatans.
Yes, rich people will continue to win down ballot elections, because everyone ignores off year and local elections, because running a campaign is an expensive affair beyond the basic need of being a fucking extroverted lunatic in the first place.