Nobody you are ever allowed to vote for, from the Presidency to the office of some rep in your local city or county, whether they lose or actually win, is ever going to challenge real power with the small piece of little power they got for being Democratically Elected.

Because they are well-paid one way and another, to change nothing that matters, and they are afraid, of what would happen if they dared to seriously try.

Maybe it wasn’t always that way. I don’t know.

It’s that way now, though.

And yes there are very rare exceptions sometimes. If I had ever lived in Seattle I would have been happy to vote for Kshama Sawant.

They will preach to you all day about democracy and saving it, but they will never tell you the simple truth that there’s no such thing as a democracy in a one-party state.

Electoralism means no more and no less than the football standings. You can care if you choose to, about who won on Sunday or on the first Tuesday in November, but either way it all just amounts to a sometimes pleasant and always meaningless diversion from your real existence. The country is going to keep sliding the way it’s sliding, which is downwards except for the billionaires and millionaires, whether the blue sock puppet or the red one takes home the trophy.

I hope the moon is shining bright upon you in this darkness.