“In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal class that refuses to acknowledge the suffering it orchestrated under neoliberalism or embrace New Deal type programs that will ameliorate this suffering. Despair over the futile, endless wars, as well as the genocide in Gaza, where generals and politicians are never held accountable. Despair over a democratic system that has been seized by corporate and oligarchic power.”

— Chris Hedges

silbervvind:

As it turns out, trying to get more votes by taking the middle ground between fascists and antifascists results in alienating the antifascists and the fascists still not voting for you because they prefer the other guy. Proof of the middle ground fallacy is in the pudding.

Been saying variations on this for the last 12 years. The Democrats are committed to pleasing nobody and it shows.

chirpovs:

if I had a nickel for every time I voted for the potential first female president over trump and trump won I’d had two nickels and it’s really fucking fucked up that it happened twice

(via ofthatcolossalwreck)