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We had<\/strong>
\nWon thing in common<\/strong>
\nWe were consumers<\/strong>
\nOf the evil of two lessers<\/strong>
\nAs if<\/strong>
\nOnly just<\/strong>
\nAt last<\/strong>
\nDefeat the enemy<\/strong>
\nWithin<\/strong>
\nHour strangled democracy<\/strong>
\nWon wring<\/strong>
\nToo rule them all<\/strong>
\nSending US too<\/strong>
\nOur eternal reward<\/strong>
\nThat second coming<\/strong>
\nOver<\/strong>
\nAnd over<\/strong><\/p>\n

Countless millions only wish for it all to be over on the impending dawn of won of the greatest daze in American democracy. \u00a0The passive-aggressive cycle of non-election years and election years strikes me as absurdly dysfunctional. \u00a0\"CAPITOL<\/a>This absurdity is heightened in presidential election years (or is that non-presidential?). \u00a0In a numbing normality, worker alienation, blind consumerism, and inane entertainment maintain a trifecta of blessed passivity and hegemonic conformity punctuated by learned helplessness. \u00a0That’s the non-presidential years. \u00a0In presidential election years, our absurdity is traded up to the mirrorly surreal. \u00a0More like reality (sic) television than democracy, viewers — formerly known as citizens — are granted the high tech, virtual reality illusion that their voting for the winners, and decidedly losers, of American Monarch, is a sacred choice worthy of our waning humanity. \u00a0What we want, we want so desperately to be over. \u00a0\"Elect<\/a>Little do we realize that the unending cycle of fomented yearnings met with chronically new and improved unmet needs is perfectly consonant with our lifetime of socialization and domestication as consumers. \u00a0Work, buy, consume, die. \u00a0That we are literally consuming the planet should come as no surprise. \u00a0That in exchange for this we accept a few good jobs and a lot of crappy jobs (though 2 or 3 apiece), should be met with outright rebellion. \u00a0When winning ultimately feels like losing, and it only feels better when it stops, it may be a good time to stop drinking the Kool-Aid\u2122. \u00a0It’s time to raze the bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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