Does anyone else feel like politics right now has just gone bad?

>>135801533
it was always bad. i've been following them for a long time and the scary thing OP (if you're someone relatively new to all of this) is that there's probably 1000 times more transparency and information availability than ever before because of wikileaks, the general proliferation of the internet and the rise of alt-media is a meaningful force on the political scene

>>135801533
Trump is doing exactly what he set out to do. If you've ever had to clear clogged plumbing, you know what you are in for before you can make it better.

That's what's happening right now. It's a nasty fucking job because the deep state is entrenched in all areas of government.

>>135801533
>>135801858
in fact, i would even suggest to you that the reason it seems things are going insane is because this new access to info led to the rise of populism, which has exposed the true motivations of much of the left (dirt in HRC emails was just ignored by pretty much all democrats and democrat voters).

it was all that stuff that led to trump, which led to ANTIFA, which have exposed themselves as nothing more than sociopaths who are really only interested in destroying society and breaking your stuff

you want to know real frustration? go back to politics in 2005, 2006 or worse, the 90s, when all everyone went by was whatever the nightly news or their college professors told them. try living in that environment and knowing it was all bullshit, without being to find an outlet to people of similar like minds to you

>>135801858
>>135802179
>>135801533
it used to be OP that you were immediately labelled a "tinfoil hat fanatic" for ever suggesting that anything the government said was untrue. people who suggested that there was ever a "conspiracy" by world powers to centralize and globalize power (globalism) were literally relegated to the outskirts of society and became unemployable. if you were really well read, and tried to bring information about declassified programs such as COINTELPRO, operation mockingbird, MKULTRA, tuskeegee experiment or anything like that? you were literally likely to be forcibly recommended to a mental institution. it was that bad in the past man. and after 9/11 if you ever suggested that the government was involved, or that there weren't really WMDs in iraq you were a real piece of shit (saying it was "war for oil" was ok though, because there was a meme called "peak oil" which was essentially the "climate change" of it's time, and was supposed to bring us death and doom and destruction unless we did something about it. so "war for oil" all played into that "socially acceptable" liberal conspiracy. kind of like the russia thing now)

thank internet and alt-media for breaking that stranglehold.