I write to explore questions that are possessed of depths that I want to explore and, at the present, politics / the state of the republic / etc etc is so objectively shit on a surface level that there's nothing for me to explore.

It reeks of it, it pours and seeps out of every vein: fascist authoritarian cankle tumors and toady lickspittles running ripshod over admittedly broken systems and institutions (worst solution to very real problems humanly possible) while feckless, woefully inadequate-to-the-task opposition leaders (a term I use charitably with the current Democratic leadership – and yes, good job on shutting down the government: you should've done it in March; doing it now is the legislative version of a perfect attendance certificate) pretend they're replaying their greatest high school football victory (the 2006 midterms) when the other side's playing some fucked up horror show and the Dems who are more up to and of the moment are sidelined in the name of decorum, seniority, and/or fear of straying too far from the impotent.

None of this means that I don't have opinions or that I won't use my voice or my wallet where I can and where it's of the most benefit to those most in need (any Democrat running in '26 possessed of genuine, heartfelt solutions on how to make the lives of everyone better: my writing skills are yours for free); it means that using what little brainpower I have left writing about it is a waste of whatever time I have left. Case in point.