Objectively intelligent.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I'm not deluded enough to think the power game will end. I view my principled concern about justice reform as a dream I'll never live to see.

You confuse my very dark view about how things work with me trying to affect a nihilist stance. I was never a nihilist, and I never will be. But I have no faith or hope of any kind. I find myself increasingly suggestible in the face of the argument, "Let them burn it all down. That's the only way to fix it."

The nihilists are the neoliberals, the rentier capitalists, the people who enable what's happening by refusing to discuss the economic issues that matter. Politics is fun and games, but economic matters are of primary importance. Who spoke of them best? Yang. Warren and Bernie are a close second. And Trump, at least in 2016, when he pointed out how neoliberal policies of both D and R administrations were fucking the lower 80% of the country, was also facing the issues directly.

I don't care much about the damage Trump and the Courts inflict on one another. I'm sick of talking about Courts, and dickheaded narcissistic lawyers who infect DC, and political parties. I want to hear some candidate talk about why we are all responsible for 1/2 of all Americans not being able to come up with $400 on 24 hrs notice, why 90% of Americans have no savings, and what this will look like in 10 or 20 years.

But I'll never hear that. And no one will ever accept blame. Even here, when someone puts the blame squarely on neoliberal policies that have fed us well but fucked over a whole lot of other people, everybody pretends not to hear it. Or they blame political parties. If no one has any principles, and we live in a sociopathic system where everything is commoditized, what sensible conclusion can one reach but that its all a power game and Trump is just causing us to recognize it.

Hey Sebby, Drive-By Truckers are playing your fine town tomorrow night. I think the Rock Show might do you some good.

Your friend,

Ollie