"If enough people really deeply believed that this salvation by presidency is as much of a sham as the hallucination that our country’s constitution serves us well (excepting, of course, the still stellar bill of rights), they might at last be motivated to do something about the absolutely parlous state of a nation where, over the last four decades, $50 trillion has been extracted from ninety percent of the population and funneled into the bank accounts of one percent of the population, making those few people unfathomably rich. And that ninety percent has permitted this with hardly a peep! Just like the relative silence over the abomination of two foreign, decades-long wars which served utterly no purpose other than to kill tons of Iraqis and Afghans, and quite a few U.S. soldiers too…and to help bankrupt all three countries. Time to wake up! Things are awful and will surely get worse, unless we forget this nonsense about a savior in the white house, or in a gang of partisan hacks on the supreme court huffing and puffing over a hopelessly outdated constitution, written by a bunch of slave-owning, indigenous-slaughtering, female-oppressing bigots. Things will get worse because there is close to zero difference in this country’s dreadful policies regardless of which party is in charge."

[counterpunch.org]