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My legs are tired, and so it was tougher than usual<\/a>. They should be tired, 20 miles (33km) Sunday, then 5, 5, 5 (8, 8, 8km) Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That’s asking a lot from my body. I usually do 35 miles Sunday-Saturday, so a couple days early is a little extra effort, and coming off a bad cold adds a little more. Speaking of which, all is clear, what is left is still up there, but slowly I am getting rid of all the excess.
\nWhat was really nice on my run today was lots of puppies to say hi to. I don’t know why, but there were 3 or 4 Labrador pups being walked. I notice these things, because while I wave and smile to people, I always say hi to dogs. I like saying hi to dogs, it’s just a thing. They tend to be more polite and responsive than people, ha!
\nSpeaking of polite, so the final US Presidential shitshow occurred last night. From what I’ve read, Senor Drumpf did not help his cause at all, at one point referring to Sec. Clinton as “That nasty woman” which has led people to start posting things saying, “It’s Hillary, Madame President if you’re nasty!” A play on the Janet Jackson song. Got me laughing this morning. The other take-away it seems, is that he still won’t say if he will concede gracefully, as he should, if he loses. It shouldn’t even be a question, but as he keeps going on about “rigged” elections like a fucking cry-baby, it’s a concern. Look people, he’s a fucking cry-baby, if you support him, you support a bag of shit who can try and dish it out, but he can’t take it at all. It’s never HIS fault, he always blames someone else. Is that who you want running any country? No, but you keep lying to yourself, whatever gets you to sleep at night.
\nIn about 4 weeks he will start claiming he never wanted to be president, and within a few months he will claim he never even ran. Him and his awful offspring will start a cable news network, it will fail miserably. It will have the alt-right superstars, like Alex Jones, by the way, who did an interview for Alex Jones’s crazy-ass website? Dr. Jill Stein. Thanks, can’t trust the Green Party now either. Part of the problem is, people give whackos like Alex Jones power by treating him as legitimate. People like Alex Jones are the very worst of our society. They know nothing, they don’t want to know anything, they just want to believe what they want to believe. They will stretch anything they can into whatever will hurt the people they want to try and hurt. That’s what they do. They have no concern for facts, they have no concern for reality, only what fits into the story they’ve written in their heads. Too many people fall into that. And I understand why now, or I think I do.
\nWhen humans started out, we looked for explanations as to why things happened. Why were there floods? earthquakes? volcanoes? hurricanes? why was there death? starvation? Whatever, and the answer was, “The gods!” The gods, changed to God, and humors, and the stars and all manner of other things. As we gain more knowledge, we still look to, “Why do I have discomfort? Why is the world not perfect?” And by and large we still look outside of ourselves.
\nIn the modern world, we have all bought into a system. We’re told that the system works, the system is good, the system is just, and we believe them. But then we start learning the system doesn’t work, the system isn’t good, the system isn’t just. So we start asking, “Why?” Some people come up with the answer, “It’s a conspiracy, the illuminati, the bilderbergs, the new world order,” whatever. They look at politicians, they fit them into that, or they fit them into their doomsday, apocalyptic scenario. The problem is that to “fight” this people pull away and say “I’m a sovereign citizen, I can do this on my own.” Firstly, you can’t do this on your own, humanity is a social species and we require help from others. Secondly, it’s fundamentally the wrong way to go about it.
\nThe system has to change, and we have to work together to forcefully change it. We need enough people to stand up and say “No, we’re not going to let this operate in this manner anymore.” That is never going to happen when in the United States, the most powerful nation on Earth, the nation where the change is needed, possibly the most, gets a total of 55%, on a good year, of eligible voters voting. 2012 saw 53%, I imagine this year it may end up being lower, but I’m not a pollster so I don’t know, but I know many people are not excited about voting. 28% of people voted in the primaries, that’s massively low too. As I’ve said, in “off-year” elections it can be less than 20% of people voting in some districts, and even lower in the primaries, if there even are primaries.
\nSo it’s not some shadowy conspiracy, it’s you, it’s your lack of participation, it’s your lack of overall interest. But people are not interested in hearing about that, they’re not interested in thinking about that. They say the politicians don’t represent how they feel, well the politicians have tons of marketing and studies that show they don’t have to worry about how you feel, because you’re NOT GOING TO VOTE, and you’re definitely not going to vote in the primary. What interest do they have then, in listening to what you have to say and addressing the issues you want them to address? They need to worry about courting the people who are going to vote. End of. That is their job. If you voted, if everyone voted, things would change, because they would have to pay attention to everyone. Go vote every year for the best candidate you can find, and vote in primaries for the best candidate you can find, and if you can’t find any, then run yourself, or encourage someone you know to run, and give them the support they need. You want a rallying cry for this? “Save the Humans” there it is. You don’t think that’s proper, let me tell you, if we don’t address things like climate change and extinction of animals, ignorance of science, the fact that all human beings deserve respect, food, water, clothing, shelter, if we don’t start doing these things now it will be too late to save us very soon, if it isn’t already too late. Who’s to blame? We all are. Me, you, the person next to you, the Presidents, the Kings, the Prime Ministers, the Businessmen, the Billionaires, each and every one of us has fucked this whole thing up. Stop blaming someone else.
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