Amidst wailing and gnashing of teeth, reason and truth died yesterday.
There are three things to blame.
1) The consistent decline and devaluation of an honest 4th Estate. The media has become so embroiled in the "scoop" mentality that it is willing to allow bias and lies in as fact. Journalism is dead and our new president could not be happier. You no longer report, you editorialize everything into sound bites that will get the most ad revenue. You are broken.
2) Your faith. You sat back and let prayer decide the future of this country. You are a testament to the wrong-mindedness of belief. Your fundamentalists elected someone who should never have been in the running for president. If that is what your fundamentals are, you need to rethink the whole system. Your reliance on prayer has cost us the world's respect and our country has no dignity left because of you. Next time, start a conversation with your neighbor and ask them what you can do to help their situation improve.
3) A short collective memory and unwillingness to speak up. We have proven, as a nation, that it does not matter how many times you lie in public, if you have the ability to believe your own lies and push them forward, you will win every time. This is true in elections, and this is true in life. You know that friend who insists acupuncture works for them therefore it must be science? That's the friend you never correct. You never ask them to read that scientific paper because you don't want to rock the boat. Well guess what? This is your fault, too.
That's all I have at 4:30 am. I can't breathe, and I certainly can't sleep. This is permanently on the internet now, like every other opinion out there. And like those opinions, it doesn't matter because it's too late.
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