I'm about to become wildly unpopular ...

[Sympthsical]

218. Calls for censorship are not unpopular

Which I suspect was known when the ink was contemplated.

"Anti-democratic and allowed." Maybe we could form some kind of . . . committee. Where, when someone says something that others do not want to hear or contemplate, we can zero in on that person and ostracize or excommunicate them in some way. The person speaking is clearly being unDemocratic. Just a body to expunge people who have unacceptable thoughts. I dunno. I'll leave the actual organization to others.

This stuff reminds me of the "I Got This" meme from many moons ago. But genuinely looking at the course of the nation, does anyone think, in the end, that the politicians had that? 2016 was all, "Hillary's Got This" and anyone who said otherwise was a concern trolling Eyeore defeatist, and why are you harshing my mellow, man?

So, on balance and with objective history recently behind us . . . how has that all worked out?

I still say this, "Don't Worry!" stuff comes from the comfortable class. As a Millennial, I know of very few people my age or younger who are looking at what has gone on and what is currently going on and thinking, "This is fine. You know, I should just trust everyone involved and not fret. They've got this!"

You have to be comfortable to hold that belief. You have to be in a cushy chair and observing politics as a kind of sport or soap opera to not be greatly concerned - if not outright bothered and cynical - about what goes on with our government and justice system.

But this isn't soap opera and sport. People's lives depend on these things. Maybe not the lives of the comfortable class, but I know my entire life and those of my peers has been deeply affected by the deterioration of government and a political class that has allowed it to happen. If not enough accountability is brought, the deterioration continues.

Eventually, if you don't reach a point of, "This shit needs to fucking stop. Now." and refuse to keep quiet anymore, I question whether that person is really all that invested in the outcomes.

Maybe they got theirs, and all this theater on social media is just a way to pass time. Doesn't really matter. They're not affected by it in the end. No, maybe Michael Flynn has an evil twin. AMG, twist! And Breibart isn't really dead. He's coming back next season. I heard it from a friend who knows a producer.

Because that's what this all sounds like to me. Uninvested fandom rather than serious concern about our policies, government, and the direction we have been moving in for some time.