Hardly surprising. You’ve been fed the illusion that America is the greatest country in the world from the day you were born, a claim that was probably never true, but certainly doesn’t hold true today when it comes to the cold hard facts (literacy, education, health care, crime, life expectancy, income equality…

I would take that with a grain of salt. I mean look back on the 60s and see how many of those “flower children” ended up just turning into yuppies in the 80s and voting for Reagan.

Other things he said he wanted to do:

So, I will actually enjoy a republican president

Trust me, I heard it enough times

I didn’t tell you who to vote for.

This election and the the prospect of watching this nation turn into a caricature of some dystopian vision of military colonialism is nightmarish beyond words. As a war refugee, I was a front and center witness to the death of a democracy. I’m a Asian-American middle-aged man. I’ve got 2 kids, one in college and the…

I think this is unprecedented. Mary Todd Lincoln (and the kids) stayed in the White House during the Civil War, when the capital itself was often under siege and it was a struggle to keep enough of the Maryland roads and the Potomac ports secure so that the residents didn’t starve to death. And Civil War aside DC…

The opposite of a live is dead, not unborn. Birth is not required to be a living thing.

It seems fitting for our times that the top comment so far (at least as it is displayed for me) is abjectly wrong on the facts.

Why shouldn’t more people outweigh fewer people? Why should rural votes count for more than urban votes?

I live in Washington State. My vote is worth shit. Try again.

I mean, we either believe in electing the president through one vote per person or we don’t. NY and CA didn’t launch an evil plot to have more people than other states, that’s just how it is. As far as the little guy not having a voice: States still have rights, as evidenced by some states being allowed to teach…

“This is not normal” is chosen very specifically to reject normalization of Trump’s behavior and actions. Your correction is bad because it normalizes his behavior.

Hey Locomotive Jones: You can keep responding to me, but I dismiss the second I see your name without even reading your inane comments. FYI, fucker.

You know how in Star Wars, Darth Vader commits genocide and enables galaxy-wide oppression and suffering but, at the end, decides that maybe he’s not cool with some creepy old dude electrocuting his son (who he himself has tried to kill several times)? Yeah, Darth Vader is still an evil fuck and not heroic in the…

I’m just happy to finally have my eyes opened. No longer giving people the benefit of the doubt will save me a lot of trouble and annoyance. They made their choice whether they showed up to the ballots or stayed home as far as I’m concerned. They are either totally responsible or at least complicit in everything that…

This is all, horrifyingly, true.

Because the dozens of staffers behind every politician are the people who actually read and write the laws. If you replaced all of Congress with your PTA meeting the country would continue to exist. As today, the staffers would line up the key points that you and I could disagree with as the true elected officials,…

No puppet, no puppet. You’re the puppet.