This is what happens when voters don’t pay attention. They operate in a continual state of “road rage” believing that some group of individuals (the other) is somehow “getting over”, while they, who always play by the rules, are getting screwed. And so, they fall prey to the hateful and malicious propaganda that, over time, always works …
This is what happens when voters don’t pay attention. They operate in a continual state of “road rage” believing that some group of individuals (the other) is somehow “getting over”, while they, who always play by the rules, are getting screwed. And so, they fall prey to the hateful and malicious propaganda that, over time, always works against them. (See Thomas Frank, “What’s the Matter with Kansas”.) Critical thinking is not a pervasive trait amongst the human species, and those who gravitate to running the shitshow know this to be true. And those folks are motivated by greed and corruption. Thus, it has ever been. It won’t last much longer: Anthropogenic climate disruption will soon begin to relevel the whole affair – a fitting coda for a failed species.
There was only one candidate who spoke and advocated for a better world, and that was Jill Stein. And she got about 1% of the vote. It makes my point about “voters don’t pay attention”. It also makes my point about our corrupt political and economic system. It’s broken because of human behavior, so it won’t be fixed by humans. I expect that within the next 5 to 10 years the human race will wake up to the inexorable march of climate disruption… but it will be too late.
This is what happens when voters don’t pay attention. They operate in a continual state of “road rage” believing that some group of individuals (the other) is somehow “getting over”, while they, who always play by the rules, are getting screwed. And so, they fall prey to the hateful and malicious propaganda that, over time, always works against them. (See Thomas Frank, “What’s the Matter with Kansas”.) Critical thinking is not a pervasive trait amongst the human species, and those who gravitate to running the shitshow know this to be true. And those folks are motivated by greed and corruption. Thus, it has ever been. It won’t last much longer: Anthropogenic climate disruption will soon begin to relevel the whole affair – a fitting coda for a failed species.
How should they have voted, Ed? Could they have voted their way out of this crisis of Capitalism, Ed?
There was only one candidate who spoke and advocated for a better world, and that was Jill Stein. And she got about 1% of the vote. It makes my point about “voters don’t pay attention”. It also makes my point about our corrupt political and economic system. It’s broken because of human behavior, so it won’t be fixed by humans. I expect that within the next 5 to 10 years the human race will wake up to the inexorable march of climate disruption… but it will be too late.