"If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it."
-Mark Twain

"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them."
-Turkish proverb

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
-Thomas Sowell

"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as racists."
-Thomas Sowell

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless."
-Thomas Jefferson

"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
-John Adams

"Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back"
-Lord Keynes

"The poor always being ♥♥♥♥♥♥ over by the rich. Always have, always will."
-King

The Internet has killed independent thought. Whenever someone expresses the "wrong" opinion, they are simply deleted. No debates, no critical thinking, no compromise, no brains. The intellectual decline continues at an alarming rate. Remember, all great thinkers throughout history went against the grain of society. What kind of thinkers are we nurturing?

One last thing: obviously I am very political. If that bothers you, bye. It won't change the fact that I will continue fighting the cancer that is ultra-partisan politics for my entire life, whether it's a winnable fight or not. I'm also a men's rights activist, and if that bothers you then you're probably part of the problem.

We've made it to the information age! Here's what we've done with it so far:

doubled down on flag-waving tribalism
doubled down on external identifiers
doubled down on social scripts
doubled down on ideological indoctrination
doubled down on silos
doubled down on revenge-based justice
doubled down on empathy gaps
brought back witch hunts

Great job humans!