Originally Posted by OccultHawk

The potential to be good is meaningless. I’m talking 2.4 centuries of bad.

Americans who still believe in democracy are like a battered woman beaten to a pulp everyday for years. Eyes blackened. Bones fractured. Repeat. Genocide slavery war war war stolen oil stolen palm oil stolen rubber products - bikini atoll Vietnam drug war prisons for profit weapons proliferation arming Angola arming Iraq arming Afghanistan Obama arming Vietnam Central America Cold War nuclear testing in Nevada chemical weapons plant in Utah - biological weapons research - rain forests destroyed coral reefs destroyed mass extinctions- and finally the granddaddy of them all global warming- every last drop of oil - fracking strip mining mountain top removal “clean” coal LBJ Nixon Reagan Bush Bush and ladies and gentlemen Donald J Trump. But this battered woman still clings to the ideal she had in her head of who this man was when she married him the way we lovingly look at the dreams of our founding “fathers” - still without scorn because we can’t bear to face the horror that everything we believe and cling to is a goddamn lie.

All brought to you by the American Voter.

****
Your
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.