Is it normal to think that there's no hope for america's future?
The more is said about the upcoming elections and the candidates, the less I think it's reasonable to have any hope that things won't get worse. On one hand, there's Obama, who could be the poster child for weak presidents who didn't have good ideas in the first place and couldn't get even those through. On the other hand, most of the people who could run against him believe that if we pray hard enough we'll fix things with magic. Sure, there's some Republican candidates that can at least give the impression they have some sense, like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson, but the filthy fucking Christians wouldn't nominate those semi-libertarians who believe the government shouldn't be based on religion. Hell, I'd like to see one of those completely out of left field candidates like McMillan or Sharkey get a foothold, I mean they couldn't possibly make things worse.
Sure, there's third parties, but they could never win. Maybe that's a good thing, because some of those parties, like the Prohibition Party or the Green Party, are crazy. Or you've got the idealistic Libertarians, but no one can take them seriously because they're the only ones oblivious to the fact that their philosophies would take things in the exact opposite direction most people want them to go. Don't the very words "personal rights" make you cringe? Be honest, we know that almost anyone who uses a phrase like that is full of it. And independents, are they really anything other than attention whores?
And it doesn't matter who the candidates are anyway, because we'll never find out what's really going on with the media in this country. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the people who say "dude, Faux News is SO biased"—hey dipshit, look up how "faux" is pronounced sometime—and then say that MSNBC is the only source of unbiased news. Idiot, all of them are biased, you just don't see it because their biases are the same as your own and you're too oblivious to know what your own leanings are. You never think "I agree with that, but it's an opinion and shouldn't be presented as the truth." No, when people tell you what you want to hear, then you "know" it's true. You aren't thinking for yourself, you're just being an asshole about doing the exact same thing you say the other person is doing. Here's a news flash for you, every news network has the exact same agenda, and it's never in your favor. But we all believe the ridiculous stuff they say, because all of them are saying the same general thing. For example, earlier this year people really thought Donald Trump was going to run as a Republican. Trump, a Democrat who donates to the Democratic Party and its causes, and with an intelligence in the genius range so he was obviously too smart to take what he was saying seriously. Do people think these things out? This was the most transparent way possible to boost ratings, yet only a few Americans could put 2 and 2 together.
Does anyone else just not want to live on this planet anymore?