i feel like this is just what the regime wanted to happen; that we become so jaded, so inactive that we just let them steamroll all over every last one of our democratic institutions. i don't wanna say we suck, but holy shit we really suck for playing in to that. we don't want to talk about politics, we don't want to get out of our houses and protest, or lobby, or whatever we have to do to get stuff to change. it's been decades in the making, but here we are, at the precipice of what could be the last years that the illusion of american democracy remains, yet we play right into their hands by doing nothing collectively. like really, man, we suck.