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There are a few ways that democracy is eating its own tail. What if the majority elects a totalitarian? Is it still democracy, or is it a dictatorship? What if people don't uphold democratic values because it serves their own survival agenda to not do so? Is it still the case that they're the bad ones and democracy is the good one? Who is the arbiter of this? Isn't democracy supposed to be by the people, for the people? Democracy is all about having the majority beat the minority. What happens when the democracy starts to pass legislations that care about minorities to give them better representation? Does that eat its own tail? The education-system advances people who are the best at complying and following the rules, so when they occupy positions of power, they lack the strength of character to really take risks and really lead the people to a better future. A lot of Stage Green progressive agendas about improving race-relations and gender-relations are not about survival anymore. They are about resolving conflicts between major collectives. Could this agenda to resolve these major conflicts and bring about peace be thwarted by the very structure of democracy itself, which is a survivalistic system? Of course, it was revolutionary to come up with the idea that the people can peacefully elect their leader to run for them when it was coined. What about the situation today though, when we're more focused on resolving suppressed conflicts and making the world more peaceful than maintaining a surface of order? Can a system that's based on maintaining order through brute-force control really pull this off?

Trump's brain will not connect these dots because he is not in his rational mind. This shows that his stage is prior to Orange or even Blue, it's Red.

There are no positive reasons essentially. It's all negative, fear-based reasons. Of course, progressives and leftists will easily see that there aren't any positive reasons, but even right-wingers and conservatives don't really have positive reasons to vote for Trump. They just hate the Democratic party. They hate Hillary Clinton, they hate Joe Biden, they hate Kamala Harris. They make a lot of moral cases against the Democratic party. They don't like suppression of Trumpism, some of them don't like the suppression of conspiracy theories by tech companies. They feel like tech companies are censoring them out because the tech companies have a vested interest in promoting the Left. Here's how their rationale goes - tech companies are pro-immigration because it cheapens labor, thereby taking away jobs from citizens and giving them to immigrants. Therefore, tech companies have a selfish, biased agenda to bring progressivism in, which is a tool of capitalism. They make a moral case against this and vote against this.

Is anyone getting tired or bored of this election yet? It's been 3 full days and it isn't ending. A part of me is like 'Just declare the winner and call it a day already! How long do you want to drag this on?'

This is not a problem of the game per se, or getting conditioned by violent media. This is a problem of your son gravitating towards violent media if he does. Generally, when a male (child or adult) gets really identified with a violent character in a video-game, it means that he doesn't feel empowered in his life to create what he wants. This can come up in revenge-fantasies, desire to be violent, being a bully at school, etc. This could be a response to getting bullied at school. It's very normal for boys. If you'd like to do something about it, you can have his father coach him to be more empowered in his life. (I'm assuming you're his mother) If the problem is bullying, he can teach his son to fight, or get someone who knows to fight to teach him to fight so that he can fight bullies at school. This will help him feel more empowered in his life in general and he won't gravitate towards violent media that offer fantasies where you're empowered and violent.

@Hsinav I haven't played video-games in my childhood because I wasn't allowed to, or very strongly discouraged from doing so. It is an unfulfilled desire of mine. I have a feeling that I will have a midlife crisis one day because of this! I understand their reasons for stopping me and I don't particularly regret not having played video-games. It's not a serious thing for me and I'm not in a hurry to go for it, I have bigger priorities. Even though I wasn't allowed, I still could have found a way to play them but I didn't, cuz I had bigger priorities. If it doesn't overtly hurt your son to do it, like if it doesn't seriously hurt his grades or something, I'd suggest you let him play video-games. If his dad or some male authority figure teaches him some discipline and work-ethic and holds him accountable for studying, having some fun here and there should be fine!

One day, we will wake up to the ultimate reality that Erdogan is a bad guy. Your grit and determination when it comes to enlightening us about this will pay off one day, despite the evil media censoring you out again and again and again. You don't give up, you get back up and you go at it. We are with you on this one!! We support you!!! We are proud of you!!

That moment when you realize that you're in a close election and everyone is out to get you. Nothing can save Trump from this situation now.

I'd start with an education system that teaches kids how to think for themselves and to know themselves. That would be step 1. The rest would be history!

My point is that if you look at it purely physically, the election is people writing something on a piece of paper and other people counting it. Same goes for courts, it's people talking things out in a courtroom. But a civil war is very different! It looks like people actually shooting each other in the face. The tragedy is that people may shoot each other in the face for precisely nothing in physical terms. Government/politics/constitution/policy is just an idea in the human mind. It's not an actual physical thing. There is no physical, material payoff to doing this. They'll just fight over ideas. You may say 'But those ideas affect people's physical lives!' Yes, they do. They affect people's physical lives because people let it happen. No idea has the power to ruin your life if you don't let it. The problem is that people have externalized their power to the government/politicians/their favorite party/their opposition party so much that now, when their favorite candidate that they're so attached to loses, they will actually go out and hurt some innocent because of it. They will go and hurt another ordinary human like themselves, while the elites sit on their asses and laugh at them!

From what I've seen about right-wingers right now, they are not at all happy with the situation. They really do think that ballots have been tampered with. From what I can see, this is not Trump brainwashing them with cult-ideology, Trumpers on the ground believe it and it's going up to bolster support for Trump. This is not about whether this is true or not. It may be laughably false and absurdly ridiculous. This is also not about what happens in the courts. You may beat him in the election and in the court. This is about unrest on the ground. The fact that people believe this could lend itself to a potential civil war. The fact that Q-Anon is a thing doesn't help the situation. We could be collectively getting pushed over the edge into this civil war because of the election. What's really sad to me is that it doesn't actually matter who wins the election to your everyday life. You may think it does, but it doesn't. If people kill each other over the result of this election, they will do it literally only to defend their political ideology, their favorite candidate, their favorite party. It will be completely ideological with no payoff to it, nothing to be gained, nothing at stake even. Just ideological fighting turning physical. It's like a fight between fans at a sports event, but this time with weapons. What happens in the ballots doesn't affect your everyday life. What happens in courts doesn't affect your everyday life. But a civil war is different. P.S. If this actually were Trump brainwashing them, then it wouldn't be so scary and we wouldn't have anything to worry about. People would stop believing it after Trump goes. But to me, it looks like people on the ground believed it first. They may not stop believing that once Trump is gone, which is what I'm worried about.

The world feels a lot more peaceful now, now that Trump is losing. I am starting to have a little faith in humanity now. I mean, I was fully emotionally prepared for a Trump win this time. I remember in 2016, I didn't sleep for an entire week when he won! This time I was prepared for some fireworks.

Amen to that.

Ooooohhh!!! It will really sting when he loses. That is if he considers hypocrisy a bad thing. Nah, he will go back to court and wage a war against the result. He is The Donald and The Donald never gives up! He will show true grit and determination by storming the Supreme Court and manipulating the ballots. He will not lose!!

That's their solution, not mine. I'd abandon this system altogether and create my own to compete with this one.

I don't want to create or push any conspiracy theory. I don't claim any conspiracy theory to be right or wrong. My point is that censoring conspiracy theories doesn't work. Censorship can work against any other ideology, but not conspiracy theories. If you censor some hate ideology, it will die out because you have more power than them. But, if you censor out an ideology/conspiracy theory that calls out your censorship, you are starting to censor out the truth. Now, the truth is on their side, which means that if you suppress it, it will get bigger and stronger! Your censorship will literally prove their point, therefore it will backfire on you. It will grow because of your censorship, the censorship will fuel it's growth as opposed to kill it. The only way for you to handle them is to listen to what they're saying and why. You're gonna have to listen to their problems. For that, you're going to stop identifying with censorship, suppression, control as a strategy. This is what the system relies on - control. This is exactly what they're calling out! I'm not saying that they're right, or that they have a better solution than the current one.

You will never know this because the tech companies censored it all. This is exactly why they vote for Trump and you'll never be able to change their mind. This is what I find so funny. First, you censor Trumpism. Then, people vote for Trump. Then, you scratch your heads thinking 'I wonder why people vote for Trump?' The answer to that question is in the very Trumpism you censored out! But you were too busy fighting it that you missed important details about people's everyday lives and now that's coming back to bite you in the ass. I'm not saying that Q-Anon is right. But if you really want to know why people vote for him, go down the Q-Anon rabbit-hole with an open mind. You haven't understood Q-Anon well enough, which is why you're censoring it. This plays right into the hands of Q-Anonners and it proves their point. I know it's scary to consider that they're right. But if you want to know why people vote for Trump, that's where the answer is.

Long live MURICA!!! In all seriousness though, be safe. Shit's going down there.

@eggopm3 How much time is left? I've been trying to find this but I couldn't.

Hey! So this is what I wake up to today. Another day, more craziness! We really are living through interesting times in 2020. This year has not disappointed when it comes to delivering pure, unadulterated craziness. Historic election. The amount of collective tension relative to this election is at a crescendo right now, because of how cut-throat it is.

Let your curiosity take you where it wants to take you. Your curiosity will never let you down! Your intuition will never let you down. Grow in whichever direction you want to grow. One day, it will help your life in ways you won't even realize!

God bless America indeed. _/\_

@Tim R The big problem is that people are unconscious, they don't understand the mind. There is this big debate in the psychological community of 'Is the mind in consciousness, or is consciousness in the mind?' We don't know what consciousness is! This is because we don't see meditation as an appropriate way of empirical investigation because what you see isn't quantifiable. Once we see that, we will understand 'mental disorders' a lot better.

I'd suggest we just drop this old system, not vote in it, not lend it our energy and focus on building a new system. Everyone hates this system, especially the fact that it's too bi-partisan. The elites are really selfish and corrupt to the core. Denying this is just ridiculous at this point. Yes, we don't have 'proof' against them, but if you ask yourself hand-to-heart - Are they in their Life Purpose? Do they actually care about people? There's nobody above them holding them accountable, which makes this question all the more important. The answer is - obviously not. This system, that depends on selfishness and zero-sum games, is on it's downward trajectory. It's not been created by conscious people with the intention of having a peaceful and harmonious society, it's evolved unconsciously due to the selfish actions of the most power-hungry and ruthless elites. If we want an opportunity to create a new system that is more conscious and evolved, that actually wants a peaceful, in-alignment and harmonious society, this one has to go first. (I'm not just ragging on the elites here. Even those at the bottom have contributed to the dysfunctionality. It's just that the shadows of the elites matter more, because they're elites and they have more power.) Humanity has never had an opportunity in history to consciously create their own society that values peace and harmony. That opportunity has yet to come and I think it is knocking on our door right now. If we let this system go and strategically prepare for the time when it won't be there anymore, we can really create a conscious system that actually cares about the people and is good for the people. Working on your Life Purpose and changing the world yourself is a much better idea than relying on someone else to do it for you. Only those with a Life Purpose, who care about the collective will survive this crash. I don't even think that who you vote for matters at this point!

Welcome to politics! Welcome to the madhouse clown-show that politics is. Political noob mistake #1 - You believe your ears. Don't believe your ears! Don't believe one word a politician says. Only focus on what they do. Talk is cheap and it's even cheaper in politics. Political noob mistake #2 - You think they're there to help you. You think they'll focus on the economy because that's what the economy may need. That's not true at all. Trump is the biggest opportunist ever, he will say whatever gets him power and popularity. Other politicians are also opportunists, but Trump's the biggest one of them all. Political noob mistake #3 - You trust politicians. You think they'll solve your problems, they're a 'benevolent force' there to protect and preserve the population. You think that because they said so and you believed them. Refer to noob mistake #2. They will say they'll do something, not because they can or want to deliver on it, but because the public is fool enough to believe them and vote for them in a reactionary manner. It's all about votes, it's all about power, it's all about titles like 'President', 'Vice-President', 'Senator', 'Congressman' or whatever other title they've got. That's the reality of politics. It is a food-fight mud-slinging contest for power. This is why people call it dirty, because it is. Now this doesn't mean you shouldn't get involved in it, this is just the present-day reality of politics. Lucky for you that I'm telling you this while you're still a noob!