I don't live in the US and I've only been there for a brief period of time. But I do interact with US on many levels. As far as I know Steemit founders are US citizens and although Steemit itself is a decentralized platform, running on top of a blockchain, it's (still owned by) a US registered company.
Disclaimer stated, I will briefly jot down my opinions on these elections.
The whole "choosing between two bad options" conundrum reminds me blatantly of a similar situation we had in Romania a decade ago. We had to choose between a communist and a nationalist. We chose the communist. But who actually won was irrelevant. What was relevant was that we stopped, as a nation. And when you stop as a nation, you never actually stop, you go backwards. You feel like you're not moving, but in reality you're in a swamp sucking you in. Corruption flourished, economy went down and it wasn't until 5 years later that we were able to chose something better.
What brought us to that conundrum? What made us face a decision between two utterly incompetent and corrupt politicians?
Well, the same things that brought US to today's situation. Complacency. Whining. Constant projections of guilt and negativity onto "the others". Lack of accountability. Cowardice.
Nations are not "fixed" at the elections level. That level is just a symptom of what's going on. It's not the cure.
Nations are "fixed" at the individual level. They are the sum of what everybody does, and even more than that. It's not that Trump is an idiot (I honestly don't know if he's an idiot or not, I don't know him in person). It's not that Hillary is a liar (again, I don't know her in person). It's that each and everybody, collectively, is allowing idiocy and lies to creep in.
What's on top of a collectivity is never different from what the collectivity is made of, down to its most basic components.
If I were an American right now, I will stop looking at the polls. I will stop looking at the media. I will stop looking at everybody else for a few days.
The only person that I will look at, as deeply as I could, would be me, in the mirror. Incessantly, for hours, until my eyes will hurt.
How much Trump and Hillary is in that image?
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