Saturday, March 7, 2020

voting is for rubes

What matters in life changes from moment to moment. What feels critical one day can seem trivial the next. Politics can be so easy to ignore. So many feel as if thier lives are completely unaffected by the power games between elites who will screw us over no matter how it plays out.

I understand people who ignore it all entirely, and I understand those who can't. I'm not sure which is the objectively better idea. Whenever I get into trying to figure out what really matters, the answer always turns out to be nothing. It's all a swirling soup of hormones and nonsense. None of it really matters, but that's what our brains are made of.

For five years, I've been saying it wasn't over. We've lost many battles, but #StillSanders the movement would carry on. We would win eventua- oh. Fuck. Just like that, it's over.

It's going to take a while to get to the point where it feels trivial again.

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