Would Biden's win be the breaking point for some Farmers to wear they just disconnect from politics?
Maybe Dear Leader would get his wish for a minimal political forum.
The Hell of it is that I can never unlearn the things I've learned. The illusion was smashed so badly in 2016 that everything I thought I knew about politics turned out to be a lie, and nothing can ever undo that. I'd disassociate from it quite a bit; I'd shrug my shoulders, shut down most of the feeds I use to aggregate news and keep up with the general flow of political traffic, but I can never go back to being that blissful idiot who thinks that everything is a
little messy but the machine still works fine and a little duct tape just adds to the aesthetic.
Ideally, people say that learning from history is the best way to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. In practice, what actually happens is that you have to sit back and watch while a bunch of drooling idiots repeat the mistakes of the past, and refuse to listen to you no matter how many times you warn them about what happened the last time someone tried it. Learning about politics is very similar.
But, you can't reclaim the past, time only moves in one direction, and there's no sense sitting around and fretting about how looking under the hood screwed up my entire concept of the world around me. If it's definitively proven that he lost, all the recounts come out legitimate, the Supreme Court rules against him and the Electoral College doesn't swing his way:
Shit sucks, but I'm not going to sit around for four years screaming about it.
Oddly enough, the awkward stalemate that basically split the country clean down the middle has left everyone much more calm than I expected--apart from the weird, hyper-partisan people on either side--once the initial shock wore off. I
really don't know how to put my finger on it, but it feels like some kind of thread just..
Snapped? Maybe it's just the calm before the storm, but even the people in my life that I expected to fly off the handle are just kind of slumping around and waiting to see what happens, some of them are even reaching across the aisle to talk to people that they practically hated a week ago.
I thought that the 50/50 split was going to be the theoretical nightmare scenario, but somehow it's resulted in people just... Talking to each other again. It's like the election went from being this psychotic frenzy of partisanship to this unusual sort of worn-out calmness. I don't really know what to make of it at the moment, but I'm definitely enjoying it while it lasts.
