I mean, that's one of td's most accurate appraisals of this sub. However, I feel like there's a really fine line to walk, where trying to be the moral high ground won't do anything and stooping to that level of hyperbola and outrage is not the world I want to live in.

And yeah it is exhausting. We're exhausted (the entire american political conscience), and whoever drove the first spikes in however long ago has found great success as we wear further down and split further apart. Personally I would like both parties to fracture. Let the parties fit to the lines and not have this manufactured 50/50 split of our society. But it's easier to crack a mean joke or overheat your keyboard with outrage than actually feel the rage of injustice and passion for change that would motivate engaging someone who thinks the opposite. What I mean is real patriotism, where the love of one's community and nation can guide their moral compass. To much nationalism is expressed as patriotism, but it's actually based in fear.

Would you ever think to lock up a person who you hate? Maybe if you are antisocial, but really our thoughts are to treat dangerous people we fear that way. The republicans are afraid of migrants and let that xenophobic fear guide them as a moral beacon. They are afraid of people taking their guns. There is so much anger, and frustration put out because they are at the base afraid for their lives and that some boogeyman will beat down their door and take what they have.

The same goes for democrats, they're afraid of fascism, they're afraid of guns.

It's all the same lie. We are made to be so deathly afraid of so much, that we've got some sort of fucking complex that it turns to rage and deafness. I am so fucking tired of politics. When I watched this video I though that I would never want to be there and do that, but some part of my mind nagged and told me how I shouldn't even try to have an opinion on politics.

Sorry to ramble on but it is such a confusing time with so many voices trying to shout over another and be pulled by their emotions. So yeah, we don't need to call for someone to pen a resignation right after finding out who they are in the first place.