Do you protest? Armchair or street and does any of it matter?

[Rev. Rye]

Disillusionment yes, nihilism no -- at least from my perspective.  Just because we lose doesn't mean we were wrong.  Facts are still facts.

My particular brand of disillusionment and nihilism doesn't come from despairing about the facts of our world, it comes specifically from the fact that many millions of people here in America simply do not care about the facts. Do.Not.Care. It's demoralizing to be outvoted by the uninformed.

Not only facts, but conventional morality. That’s probably got to be another major part of the problem. It’s not just a disregarding of facts that makes phrases like “the sin of empathy” commonplace or that believing that there are major societal issues that need to be addressed is just “woke ideology” that needs to be opposed at all costs. And it alone doesn’t put a fucking wrestling villain in the Oval Office twice.