You Can’t Do Anything For Them

A harsh reality and an open door at the same time.

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Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was such a thing as political discourse in the United States. While there have long been two dominant parties, they still offered up individuals who ranged within their sides.

Over the past few decades, they’ve become way more partisan and contentious. What’s more, people who should have zero place in the mix are elected officials (despite utter cluelessness regarding process, procedure, the Constitution, and the oh-so-important governing part). They’ve gotten behind all sorts of ludicrous policy ideas that help a teeny, tiny few — i.e. their donors and corporate overlords — and moved further and further from actual governing and getting anything truly useful done. Trickle-down economics is a great example of this bullshit.

There is a place that trickle-down worked that’s not economics. People who normally only get involved enough to vote now position themselves into a seemingly deeper role. They dig in deep and are immovable in their position (even when it’s utterly against reality). I’m looking at you, Cult of Trump.

Before this turns into a whole political thing, there is a far deeper lesson to be learned from this. Because while politics is a very obvious place to see people entrenched…