Ladies and Gentlemen I'm afraid

[Maedhros]

54. I agree.

I have a friend who just turned 53. He has literally given up. He believes in a clockwork universe with no free will, in which everything is predestined. America's decline from Republic to Empire is inevitable, nothing can be done to stop it, all that we can do is hope to slow it down enough for him to collect his Social Security before he dies. No reason to aspire to anything better, just go along to get along until the stormtroopers kick in the door and cart him off to the reeducation camp.

This friend also describes himself as an ultra-liberal who despises Republicans. The problem is that all he has is spite.

There is a lot of this attitude these days: "We can't expect to have anything better, so we'll just settle for bad over worse."