History Is Long, And It Bends Every Which Way

In the days leading to today’s election, as the tension in the US had already reached past breaking point, aside from the usual anxiety every presidential election inspires. The mood seems to have gotten even darker, even bleaker than one might have expected.

Although I usually prefer to explore a fuller extent of the zeitgeist online, here I want to focus on what I’ve seen in the liberal and leftist spectrum. The “votes don’t matter, they’re all the same” marxist left. And the liberal “we have to out-appease Neville chamberlain while also making sure wealthy elites are happy” Neo-liberals. Although…