My kid's generation doesn't really have a shred of hope, does it?

[HughBeaumont]

204. PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT.

History was horrible because there were no advancements in technology to make it better.

Information and knowledge are why there are no more Hitlers. Political and societal isolation creates a North Korea.

Unfortunately, that same information and knowledge threatens to send the useless eater meatbags to the streets and our coffins with no lifeline to be had. No income means no products and services purchased which, in turn, means NO BUSINESS.

Do tell . . . are corporations going to get LESS greedy and profit-batty? They want labor to buy from them but not work FOR them. If they could offshore or automate any job except their own, they would. If corporations don't get out of this 80$-90s thinking of pleasing the major shareholders first (a choice, NOT a law), I really don't see any other way America survives. I really don't see how your precious capitalism survives. It's an anachronism. It's not going to save itself from the problems it created and continues to create.

Are all of these wealthy board members going to say NO to the cost savings of event-driven algorithms? Tell me, how does a small business compete with the likes of Amazon and Wal Mart? How does monetary backing for a small business happen when we continue to waste money on corporate welfare, pork and useless oil wars?

OH, and have you seen who we think is a good idea to run America? The Ryan Congress? The McConnell Senate? DONALD FUCKING TRUMP AS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE??? A "progressive future"? REALLY?? This isn't just a "bump", this has the potential to be a goddamned fucking cock-up so monumental that it will send human, civil, labor and voting rights back to the 20th century.

So don't sit there and tell me to be optimistic when my fellow "Americans" give me no reason to be. We keep sending fuck-up after bought-and-paid-for fuck up to Washington and continue to do so despite having the worst shit-bad record when it comes to issues domestic and foreign, all because voters want to believe stories and narratives from Australian Reaganites and wingnut carnival barkers on cable TV. There is going to be NO progressive future at the rate we're going now. This party, to the contrary, is leaning ever more to the right, not the left.