The "PC liberal" goal was to be "post-politics" - a world where we can just live w/o fighting others for the right to
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Now it's all politics. Eight years or more of nothing but the fight. As though the fight to get here wasn't bad enough
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"Resistance" isn't exciting, or energizing, or self-actualizing. If you feel that it is I don't really want to be around you either
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All I feel is tired and sick. I'm turning 33 in a week and I feel like I'm twice that age
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This is what makes me bitter about "At least there'll be great art" - it's wrong from head to toe
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Tragedy strangles a great deal of art in the crib and the rest it makes about itself, like a whirlpool sucking everything into itself
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Have you heard the quote that survival is paradoxical because it's at once terrifying and boring? How repetitive and grueling it is?
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The art that comes out of crisis is like that. Again and again everyone reacting to the same. Damn. Thing.
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A black hole, this blank and empty void that drags every better and brighter into orbit around it
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Donald Trump is boring. He's stupid. He's as predictable as water flowing downhill and we have to spend our lives paying attention to him
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And that's what he wanted, his whole class of rich smug white assholes feeling left behind and screaming "YOU CAN'T IGNORE ME"
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I'm just so pissed at everyone, whatever side they're on, trying to extract silver linings from this garbage
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The one political quote I've taken most to heart in life is Keynes' "In the long run we're all dead"
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