A Visual Elegy
Once upon a time there was a very large democratic country whose inhabitants were among the richest people on the planet. But the price of eggs was just too high. The people blamed the government, although it didn‘t own any chickens, laid any eggs, or had egg farms, or grocery stores.
Along came an orange-painted man-child who promised many things, mostly to lower the price of eggs, if he only would be elected and could be the dictator from day one.
This emperor without clothes, helped by Abraham Lincoln‘s former party, (which had turned to marshmallows, mostly white and mushy), set out to be king of America and won the election.
He put his fellow klepto-billionaires in key positions, and installed the wealthiest one of them all as his head DOGE-bag.
And they happily started to dismantle democracy and the structures that had been set up to help people, allowed them to vote, control greedy companies, protect the environment so they could breathe and have clean water, and ensure equal rights for all. You know, like in a democracy.
In 2024 there were about 240 million eligible voters in the US. Approximately 161.5 million were registered to vote.
77 million whole-heartedly embraced the idea to jump into the orange abyss by voting for a felon and convicted sex offender, while 75 million voted to stay where they were and just look at it. That means that 9.5 million registered voters couldn’t get their asses off the couch to vote.
It also leaves 79.5 million eligible Americans, which for one reason or another, couldn’t be bothered to register at all, and just as well, could live on another planet. Maybe they are hoping Space X will take them to Mars.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. – Plato