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Occasionally, there are things that go on in the world and in the lives of people in my own little bubble, that I wonder if these are things that every generation goes through.\u00a0 Take for example, as my general generation of people are all climbing out of their 30s and some into their 40s, we\u2019re entering stages of our lives where peoples\u2019 parents begin to ascend into ages where life expectancy is nearing their ends, and there\u2019s occasionally the somber conversation that comes up where family members have passed away.\u00a0 Undoubtedly, this is something that every generation goes through, as Father Time is unbeatable and everyone eventually goes.<\/span><\/p>\n But the inspiration of this post is unfortunately politics. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t take people with the power of enhanced sight to see that it\u2019s a powder keg of a topic and the most volatile thing to possibly discuss in the world these days, and there are people who are smart enough to keep their mouths shut and keep their opinions to themselves in public, and then there\u2019s everyone else who just can\u2019t manage to shut the fuck up about politics.<\/span><\/p>\n I didn\u2019t imagine the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have bothered me much, since usually the passing of anyone in Washington is met with who cares indifference.\u00a0 But RBG meant a whole lot to a lot of people, and even casual news followers like me had heard plenty about her stances, accomplishments and general grit and determination throughout her career and her life.\u00a0 And seeing the reaction of many of my internet friends, both female and male, about their general disappointment at her passing, puts into perspective for people like me just how big of a loss this is to a country that desperately needs strong people like her in it.<\/span><\/p>\n As sad and as much of a loss it was with RBG\u2019s passing, what predictably happened next was no less nauseating and disappointing, no matter how inevitable it was; in spite of the fact that in previous instances of a justice passing away in an election year, their replacement was held off until after the elections, but shocking nobody, the baked potato and his cronies are going to do everything in their power to fastrack another hand-picked stooge to fill RBG\u2019s seat as fast as humanly possible.<\/span><\/p>\n This, has unfortunately overshadowed the news of RBG\u2019s passing, as this administration has the power to take absolutely anything in the country, and turn it political, obviously ruining everything it touches.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And it is just makes me really sad and further disgusted at the state of our country and not a day goes by where I don\u2019t mutter that America sucks right now.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even remember what was going through my head otherwise, but I was sitting in my car at a Bojangles\u2019 drive-thru line, and I just had some thought that made me just feel disgusted and grumbling about how America sucked, and how disappointed and disgusted I felt living in it, and raising a daughter in it.<\/span><\/p>\n Going back to the original topic of wondering if things were as bad back in prior generations compared to today, and I\u2019d often wondered if generations in the past ever had it as bad as we do now, in terms of people who were disgusted by the president sitting in office.\u00a0 And to some degree, sure, they absolutely did; look no further than Obama\u2019s two terms, and all the people miserable at the thought of some black guy in the highest office in the land.\u00a0 And then there were all the left-leaners before that, miserable with Dubya sitting in the office, endlessly waging war on the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n But the reason why I think that this is undoubtedly the worst era of politics ever is pretty simple \u2013 the internet.\u00a0 Sure, the internet had long been a part of the Obama administration, as well as the Dubya administration, but it\u2019s never been as prevalent, advanced and as far as it is now, as it is, now.\u00a0 Social media is an actual, defined thing, there\u2019s Twitter, there\u2019s TikTok, there\u2019s Facebook, there\u2019s all sort of various platforms where everyone has a voice and god damn uses them, and sitting in front of a computer is often tantamount to being in stadiums, packed to the gills with people, all blathering on about this and that and often times, politics.<\/span><\/p>\n And through the internet is tons of free and available information on how people involved in the world of politics can make things more insufferable and miserable for the rest of the country.\u00a0 Earlier today, there was someone at my door, which is always a colossal inconvenience since I have a very spazz of a dog that barks at god damn everything, which is very counterproductive when I\u2019ve got a baby on a nap schedule.\u00a0 Through the window, I could see it was some lady, but she wasn\u2019t wearing a mask and I wasn\u2019t going to bother opening the door to see what she wanted.\u00a0 Moments later, I saw her put something on my doorknob and walk off; when I opened the door to see what it was, I was disgusted to see that it was some shit about the baked potato making Georgia great, and I didn\u2019t read any further because my hands had already reflexively ripped it into confetti. \u00a0The thing is, she put it on my door, hopped in her car and drove off, as opposed to sequentially going house-to-house to (illegally) solicit.<\/span><\/p>\n I have to assume my address was on some list of hers, and it\u2019s a good thing I didn\u2019t open the door, because I probably would\u2019ve gotten hostile at her for coming onto my property with no mask, spreading baked potato bullshit, agitating my dog, and successfully waking up my kid.\u00a0 She was, by all definitions, a fucking Karen, and I would\u2019ve called her that to her face and told her to get off my fucking property.<\/span><\/p>\n And just because I don\u2019t want to waste making another post about politics, there\u2019s a house across the street from mine that has a big, backlit MAGA flag in their entry skylight window.\u00a0 Humorously, the homes on both sides of them, have put up Biden signs in their yards, which I have to imagine agitates the shit out of them, but I was out walking my kid in the stroller, when the homeowner of MAGA flag house, drove past me.\u00a0 And like a good neighbor, she waved at me, the Chinaman next door, and I waved back, because I didn\u2019t realize it was MAGA flag house lady.\u00a0 But then I saw this shit<\/a> on her rear passenger window, and I was like wtf<\/span><\/p>\n Seriously, a fucking window decal of the baked potato\u2019s profile?\u00a0 I simply have no words and I\u2019m already sick to my own stomach for talking about politics this much and I want to end this post already.<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is that this is undoubtedly the worst era of politics ever, and I don\u2019t think it can really be disputed.\u00a0 The existence of the modern internet has guaranteed that such could be the case, and I think it goes without saying that 2024 and 2028 will also be the worst eras of politics ever too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Occasionally, there are things that go on in the world and in the lives of people in my own little bubble, that I wonder if these are things that every generation goes through.\u00a0 Take for example, as my general generation of people are all climbing out of their 30s and some into their 40s, we\u2019re … Continue reading Is this the worst era of politics ever?\u00a0 Yes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,36,165],"class_list":["post-47323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-angst","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47325,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47323\/revisions\/47325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}