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Aug 2Liked by Adam Singer

I imagine I might be one of your oldest living readers (!!) and thus will take a lived experience, hard earned stance here.

It took about fifty years of apathetic citizenship to get us here. And that apathy worked to ingrain even more apathy in our citizenry. And Voids - will be filled.

The disenfranchisement you felt in San Francisco re housing costs? Happened because no one voted to make certain you got yours instead of Big 3: Pharma, Oil or Government --or the VERY Big For profit, Insurance Industry who has managed to evade the List and most won't put them on that Big 3, but I'd put them at the very top.

So I am going to kick your in the behind and remind you that you're either part of the solution or part of the problem. Your level of apathy (by those before you) caused this and continuing to ignore it, wallow in the disenfranchisement, will change nothing.

Those who have the power to drive your world, run it how they want to, whether it be Media, or those on the List? They WANT you apathetic; need you to be apathetic.

It is your right to give them what they want, voting is not compulsory in the US, and thus you can disengage as you wish. But you must accept that by doing so, you will get little of what you want, too.

And you don't get to complain about the Void being filled in a way you don't like....

Have a good Friday.

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of course you should vote!

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Now imagine being a Canadian and being bombarded with this "most important election ever where democracy will die" while have no horse in the race. It's exhausting and somehow impossible to avoid.

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yeah you see how insane everyone is

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Aug 1Liked by Adam Singer

The only winning move is not to play the game.

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that is correct

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Aug 1Liked by Adam Singer

Genuinely curious, if the former President had successfully convinced Pence to do the right thing, would overturning an election not have been the definition of democracy being over? You are right about only 3 more months of chaos. Then we return to the permanent chaos the tech industry continues to carelessly inflict on our country. At least a Presidential campaign only lasts a year. The damage tech is doing (see: recent Gallup and Edelman trust scores) is generational.

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All revolutions (this includes tech/internet) ensure periods of rockiness before finding stable ground. May you live in interesting times

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we need rock solid elections though, there shouldn't be any doubt of the outcome

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Polish considerations aside, this is our circus and these are our monkeys…whether we like them or not. 🎪🙈🙉🙊

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You're writing this from a state where abortion is now illegal. Elections might not affect you, but that doesn't mean they don't have enormous impact on the lives of others.

And it's not every election that's the most important, it's that Trump represents a unique threat to our democracy and has run in the past 3 elections. If he wasn't on the ballot, you'd hear different things. But, he is and he relies on this kind of apathy to win.

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Aug 1·edited Aug 1Author

I wrote you should def share longer form on why certain issues matter, but the short term attention circus/news cycle stuff stuff is bad and no one is really winning anything by being part of that. Of note I am pro women's rights and the gov not telling people what to do with their bodies, but this post wasn't about any particular issue.

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These are campaigns and campaigns lead to elections. If you believe there are issues that matter, this is when those issues get decided. It might not nicely fit into life, but that's the burden of democracy: making hard decisions.

This isn't new, campaigning has dominated our elections for the entirety of my life. As it should! In the words of Trump's former chief of staff "We need to choose our leaders more carefully". Campaigns are how we do that

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Oh yeah fully agree we need better candidates

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And the Democrats are changing Title 9 to include boys as girls and the Democrats in California now let the schools keep serious issues about their children from parents so yes elections do have enormous impact on the lives of others.

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