The country is run by 14 year old girls.

[asindreams]

The state of politics is embarrassing in a way that would make even Nero's asshole pucker.  I guarantee that were that particular emperor around today, even his fiddle finger would've hit a sour note as he wrote an evolving soundtrack for our slow and sure descent into history's long list of failed experiments

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[myeyebreaking]

To should never have been capitalized.

[youdunnome2]

Do Something.

[asindreams]

Things are arranged in such a way as to prevent any individual or group of people without infinite capital to effect change

[youdunnome2]

Beautifully worded, but that cynicism is the reason why you'll spend the rest of your time blogging and accepting foregone conclusions. Change is possible, Seth, maybe not the massive, upheaval, acid-laced change of the sixties (whose infighting and polarization are the reasons why our political system is in the state it's in today), but real change, person to person change, is.

Go make it so we don't have to vote for an old white person for president. Go and make it so one person (five, ten?) doesn't forget that your city is sliding into the marshes. It's possible, Seth. I can do it, you can too. Cynicism and irrelevance aren't excuses for inaction, but tools used by those in power to keep people like you, people who have information, from sharing it with the world. So, by all means, go forth, Seth, and be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Cameron

"be the change you wish to see in the world"

[asindreams]

That's a sweet fallacy, and I wish anyone could ever give me a legitimate definition of what that means. And also, I'd love to know who originally said it. So I can piss in their lemonade. I think that phrase, sickly sweet as it is, is a noble thought. But like "Give Peace a Chance," it's not powerful. It's not a specific mode of action. It gives me no more bearing on my strange little journey