You are not as unpopular as you think you are....

that biden guy only got votes through fraud.... 
did you notice how all the people around washington or whatever as soon as joe won they all started some choreographed cringe dance like they pre-acted and rehearsed that? normal people dont act that way, joe biden has no support and all his people celebrating in the street were all paid actors who rehearsed their routine.

by that point it should have been apparent to anyone something fishy was going on and it was unsettling seeing that as it was a clear indicator of all the fakeness and paid actors that come with dictatorships

Please guys don't let the thread get "political", because then it violates the T's and C's and will get me in trouble! 

I genuinely put this up to make the less socially adept people here realise that it could be worse.... All the money and power in the world wouldn't compensate me for being THAT unpopular!

If I had any political agenda at all,in teh back of my head,  it would be to make people understand a little more the nature of modern politics itself, and not to trigger the usual tiny minded "A" versus "B" debates.  

Can we consider that the system it'self is failing us, which is essentially a machine, and not embodied by any particular person or "team" or party? 

That gives us Autists (if we are so inclined) something meaningful to get our teeth into. A task I've been engaged in since late 2001 which is understanding how the machine runs, and figuring out how we are going to re-engineer it to serve the people rather than vice-verca... 

Success within the American political system is almost wholly reliant on securing VAST funding / backers.

Whilst that remains the case, the American system can never be much more than a play thing for the richest entities who trade in that country.  They select the candidates......they only need to select one half-plausible candidate from each team and then they can sit back and let the "masses" have the illusion of 100% control in the eventual choice of their leader.  Dasardly clever = the rich choose the choices offered = absolute control!

The UK system is significantly better in that regard, but unfortunately, only Muppets and puppets seem to float to the top and the agenda is always constrained within the standard rails of "reasonableness" as dictated by media norms and expectations.  I fear that those rails will be blown apart in the next 6-12 months and it will be interesting to see what unfolds.  No one is allowed to speak their minds anymore - it is simply a popularity contest, governed by the media and judged by the masses.  Algorithms impose much of the governance these days.  It is horrifying to me that independent thought and personal opinion is being bleached from society.

It ain't great.  Its been getting a LOT worse in the last 20 years or so.  Probably time for a bumpy reset now considering where the world finds itself.

Brace, Brace, Brace !!!

But, they incremented themselves into traditional institutions. 

Obama destroyed Liberal Democracy; from within. Voting is no longer about Right or Left, but about Lifestyle Choices. No one thinks outside the box, because certain groups fear being challenged. 

I disagree that the current zeitgeist is Fabianist in nature because Fabrianism holds gradualism and incrementalism very close to its heart.  What I see at the moment is leaps and bounds of fundemental and radical change in an exceedingly compressed period of time and the suppression of dissent through homogenised group-think of implanted 'progressive empowerment.'

It is worrisome to me.

I disagree that the current zeitgeist is Fabianist in nature because Fabrianism holds gradualism and incrementalism very close to its heart.  What I see at the moment is leaps and bounds of fundemental and radical change in an exceedingly compressed period of time and the suppression of dissent through homogenised group-think of implanted 'progressive empowerment.'

It is worrisome to me.

But, they incremented themselves into traditional institutions. 

Obama destroyed Liberal Democracy; from within. Voting is no longer about Right or Left, but about Lifestyle Choices. No one thinks outside the box, because certain groups fear being challenged.