I grant completely that I'm in a no-win situation spiraling increasingly rapidly out of control. Gaming this out, regardless of the outcome of this election, the pressures that caused this situation are still in place. The longer the inevitable crisis takes to reach its peak, the higher that peak will be. More and more frustration from faithfully diseducated morons will pile on each other while people with at least half a fucking brain wonder WTF but continue to go to work each day because if I don't I will starve or find myself back on the streets. I recognize that I'm caught in this broken, losing scenario where all legally available options are designed to perpetuate the existence of an intolerable system. Without some sort of critical mass of supporters, I don't see any traction here or any way out of this mess. I see us being rescued some ten or twenty years from now from our mask-off fascist state by europe and india and japan and maybe, if we're lucky, china wont ask too high a price to help too.

Soap box... Yes, but. Most people's idea of a soapbox anymore is basically the juvenile's chinese spyware program. Media is dying due to, you guessed it, perverse incentives provided by a broken system. I am frankly reluctant to grab a megaphone and stand in town square talking about the end is nigh, though I would never have even considered writing that sentence a decade ago, let alone actually contemplating it, so...

I dunno. I wonder if I might actually be able to do more good in my gerrymandered district by voting third party.