google hires 10,000 more censors

I can’t escape believing that we are now officially done.

And I just don’t know what to do with that.

I mean…the power has been 90% consolidated, or whatever number you want, and there isn’t enough left to get a footing for a push back. The democratic experiment is over, and we are now at the mercy of sociopaths who think we STILL have too big a piece of the pie.

They completely own the means of information dissemination now, and have convinced half of America that up is down, and black is white. I mean…evangelical Christians believe Trump is a man of God. Etc. Etc. Etc. Now…the only “moral” center left in the country is the belief that the battle between good and evil is between Republicans and libtards. That’s the central morality. Bribery? Doesn’t matter. Breaking up families? Doesn’t matter. Pedophilia? Doesn’t matter. Sexual harassment? Matters if a Democrat does it. Otherwise…doesn’t matter.

The only moral principle that half the country is concerned with is the moral divide between Republicans and godless liberals. Nothing else is a principle. Party Uber Alles.

And the corporatocracy and deep state have control of all the finances, energy supplies, military/police state/judicial system, and everything that goes out of the airwaves and internet to a media-addicted population. And they seem to be completely unconcerned about killing the planet because they are going to be able to control the food and water and whatever, so they just don’t care.

And voting every couple of years doesn’t patch the hole in my soul.

I think one of the rights greatest achievements is convincing people that ignorance is better than education. That somehow people who have learned things can’t be trusted as much as people who haven’t learned things. Educated people are either out of touch with the real world, or brainwashed by the liberal establishment.

Imagine believing that it is better to not know things than to know things.

Yeah, the thing is, Bashing On, Regardless is starting to seem more and more hollow to me. I mean…I believe it somehow, but I don’t know what it means.

Does it mean posting my despair on a fucking political forum associated with a football forum, a post that will get read by maybe a dozen people? Is that bashing on?

Is it reposting a meme on Facebook that will be seen by a handful of friends who haven’t “Unfollowed” me because I post boring political shit?

Is it teaching a unit on Race to 30 kids a year?

Maybe I should phone up my gerrymandered congressman who is openly contemptuous of libruls. Talk to one of his interns.

Maybe I should stop bashing on, regardless, and stop reading the news, and try to watch the sunset rather than the looming iceberg.

I seriously am thinking about leaving for another country. It isn’t feasible for another decade, or so, because I still actively support a family, but I don’t want to live in a fascist country which has totally dismantled every government program except the military, and has these hateful racist divisions. Seriously, fuck this.

PA Ram wrote:

Zooey wrote:

I seriously am thinking about leaving for another country. It isn’t feasible for another decade, or so, because I still actively support a family, but I don’t want to live in a fascist country which has totally dismantled every government program except the military, and has these hateful racist divisions. Seriously, fuck this.

Nice idea. I think I’m too old for that–and my kids are here. Plus you gotta have money in a lot of cases to even get taken into another country. I’m here for the long haul. That’s just my reality. And this is in many cases a world problem too. Power wants more. Here and everywhere else. I’m not really sure how you fight it. How do you change it?

I have spent a lot of time living in other countries, so I have less apprehension about it. I have NO apprehension about it.

And when I say, “move to another country,” I don’t necessarily mean that I’m going to see about moving permanently to New Zealand, changing citizenship, and buying a house. I would explore that. See what it means. But I know I can live REALLY well in Thailand, for example, for less than $1,000 a month. And when they quit extending my visa, I’m happy to try India, or Morocco, or Peru. Frankly, there is a massive economic incentive to do that. My shitty pension, devoid of health coverage, will land me in Catfood City the way things are going in this country.

Thailand has great health care. All their doctors are trained in England or the US or Canada, and when I went into the ER there, and got xrays, I paid $17.

And…when I’m in another country…I don’t feel responsible for their culture, or their government. It gives me detachment.

I dunno. I’ve got another ten or fifteen years, probably, so it isn’t a thing, yet.