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Originally Posted by Adder
I do not recall a single instance of anyone on this board or its predecessors making that argument.
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I've been accused of finding fault with both parties as a cheap form of self-conferred elitism. "Politics is the art of the possible" is a notion used heavily here. It's true. But you know what else is true? "Ideas work like cancer." No shit you can't fight City Hall. No shit you'll have to pick a lever for one party because we've a "Pick this bag of shit, or that one" political system. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't vigilantly insult and degrade our politicians. It doesn't mean we should give the system the respect it deserves (what you'd accord the gum on the bottom of your boot). It doesn't mean we should hew to the ludicrous notion one is better than the other when it's clearly untrue (what one appears to be doing right for the moment will almost assuredly reap negative unintended consequences down the road).
Politicians are nihilists. Politics is a trash dump. Picking a side and saying you "believe" in the policies of any sector of it is ludicrous. Branding, marketing, advocacy... it's all nonsense. If you've ever heard serious fundraisers discuss the system after a few drinks, you realize it's nothing more than one group of self interested people fighting another for money, like corporations. "Democrats," "Republicans"... tribal horseshit for the sorts of minds who'd buy into it.
The best thing you can do for our political system is to cause more and more people to lose faith in all of it. That's the only way effective change will come.
