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And yet, if the system were perfectly rigged, Hillary Clinton would have won, and Trump would never have been allowed to make it to the primaries by the oligarchs... or was he just another puppet of the establishment? Either Trump's election was completely futile, or an opportunity wasted on nihilism.

It's difficult to have sympathy for people who feel disenfranchised from the political process, and who protest that process by choosing sabotage it to no specific end. Particularly when other groups who have been historically more directly harmed by the government have managed to succeed in creating progressive change, albeit slowly and at personal risk, and from the ground up. If Trump supporters care that little, then they should just stay home next time. After all, nothing they do can possibly matter, can it?




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