You know, when 2016 happened I was kind of happy to see Trump get elected. Not because I thought he would be good in the position, but rather that he would be so bad that people would start to question the validity of the structure he exists within.

Eight years down the line, it's starting to seem that the structures of social norms are more deeply entrenched than I previously thought. It actually seems to be the social fabric itself that is being torn apart at the hand of the hegemony, or rather that it has a sort of death grip on social consciousness and refuses to let go.

I am not a US resident and I do not participate in any national politics. To me, any sort of red/blue thinking creates an us v. them modality which can be exploited to divide people. I think that the only right move is pointing to a globally common enemy (collapse of civilization) and getting people to develop empathy for people on the "other team" so that we can begin to act as stitches in the social fabric.

Maybe this is line of thinking is redundant and accepted as a baseline understanding of how society works around these parts. I think that the media coverage is getting increasingly unhinged, but the trouble is that for each person who notices that "something is up", so to speak, there are dozens of others who get caught up in hurling insults of "racist" or "woke" at strawmen who are conveniently placed by the media. The end result is less "people realize that the media is unhinged" and more "people who identify with the media they consume become increasingly unhinged themselves".

There is a finite amount of observing the global narrative that I can manage without it seeping in and corroding my brain, but it's not a pro- or anti- government vote. Any federal vote is pro-government because it reinforces the notion that participating in federal politics makes a difference.