I mean I wholeheartedly agree with everything you're saying except the fault not ultimately being on the average voter.

We don't live in the dark ages. All information is freely available to all voters. That information is power. Power that we're choosing not to wield or wielding irresponsibly.

Now, you can argue that in places like North Korea, that isn't true. They're under lock and key. Although I do believe they have some concept of an outside world and what's available in that outside world. And regardless of whether you're under a regime that's limiting information, you can still determine if your life sucks. Even without any outside stimulus to act as a basis of comparison.

This isn't a regime...yet. We have access to the data. We have the power to vote. It's our fault for not using the tools provided to us responsibly.

If you read into it at all, you didn't read far enough.

As shown above, the proof of Arrow's theorem relies crucially on the assumption of ranked voting.

The language of Arrow’s theorem can be misunderstood. It does not mean that democracy is doomed to failure and that only dictators are sound political institutions. Arrow’s theorem states that there is no procedure to decide among three or more candidates that satisfies the above properties. If the axioms are an ideal that cannot be met, then other, less stringent, criteria should be used to compare and evaluate election procedures. Or, as may be the case, the selection of an election procedure is a decision about which of the above axioms is less important to the application at hand.

Not their fault. Don’t hate the non-wealthy ones, pity them.

Why? Why should I pity adults who make awful decisions that degrade the quality of all our lives? I didn't receive some special education. I wasn't privileged. But I didn't end up stupid enough to do what they've done. They vote the way they do because they're intellectually lazy and choose to prize emotion over facts. That's not some rich person's fault. That's not the media's fault. That's THEIR fault. It's wrong to try to excuse that for them.

We aren't talking about children here. We're talking about grown ass adults.

I understand people are desperate, but desperation doesn't just make you a drone to be impressed upon by the wealthy and manipulative. Being lazy, or weak, or hateful does. You don't need some higher education to understand right from wrong.

Lol.

Trump and Elon sat down a few weeks before the election and had a video recorded discussion where they jerked each other off talking about how anti-union and anti-worker they were.

Then working class Americans went out and gleefully voted for them to be in control.

Americans are stupid.

Try out the new America!!! Same shit taste, but now with even more racism!!!!

Yeah, but us hairless chimps didn't have the internet before. Our primate brains weren't ready for weaponized misinformation in the palm of our hands.

It's probably going to get worse.

Also the dismantling of government agencies begins!

That's going to be the thing that really fucks us going forward. If our democracy survives at all, we'll spend a significant amount of time and energy rebuilding what was dismantled. That means less time and energy on general progression.

When Trump won the first time I knew it really meant we were going to see less progress in our lifetimes. Now we're going to see even less.

And it's our own fault. Because we're generally very stupid.

What did this person ever do to them?

Exist.

The Republican party has used hate and fear to make a significant portion of our society hate the IDEA of other people existing. None of these people know or interact with trans people, or they wouldn't hate them. I know trans people. Spoiler Alert: they're just people. That's it. But the Republican party is brainwashing Americans to believe they aren't.

Hate won in America a few weeks ago.

I hope someday he has to stand before his victims and a deity

He won't.

The bad guys are winning. Simple as that.

Any repercussions will have to be earthly. Hope we can make that happen. But at this point I'm gonna go with "probably not", since we just elected a felon and rapist who is now guaranteed to get away with his crimes.

Do something that matters

I challenge anyone reading this to point out a time Republicans did something that mattered (positively) at any point so far in the 21st century.

A society with a majority of voters who are petty, greedy, ruining everything.

It was black people.

Then it was gay people.

Now it's trans people.

And we voted for this.

America is trash.