You're a little older (I can tell). You got the Obama thing full frontal. You had Hope™s, or maybe you were doing some Leftbook shit like CPUSA, Green Party, grab bag of democrat tailists. You never looked into it because people seemed sure, or you already knew how to Be Pragmatic and Maintain Optics. Yeah, there was a bit of genocidal war in Yemen and stuff, and maybe also a little bit in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria or whatever (RIP to those brave soldiers), and sure, you had ICE, but it felt different. Sacha Baron Cohen was still funny. Very nice! Nobody rubbed it in your face like Trump, like me, nobody reminded you who you are. You never had to listen to Venezuelans complaining about some guy with a moustache you're less concerned with than stabilizing rent controlled apartments. In fact, isn't becoming a homeowner someday your first step to real political agency? You can free that guy later. Whatever stopped him won't get in your way. You remember how to be normal. To chill the heck out, to not crash the heck out. To be heckin fun, to game, and let the time go by while you wait for what your parents got (you can vote it back probably, if the silly abnormal people don't get in the way of the optics). You've got people to read for you. They're probably workers. Maybe a rebirth of the artisan class. What's the petit bourgeoisie?

It's not like anything has changed since those wars. It's not like there is a digital record of all the charred bodies you laughed off while chomping down burgers and telling yourself you're better than the guy rolling coal because you theoretically know what a conscience is. Videos upon videos of people self-documenting their chauvinism, which was previously only described, quoted, or outlined in books. Sure, there were podcasts. Obama loves podcasts so much he acts like he invented them with Mark Maron (you remember that nuisance? hope not). But nobody will actually listen to a podcast clip in the shortform video age unless it's a compilation of jokes about uncles making dick sandwiches.

A whole slideshow of people proving their worth by comparing themselves to an open pedophile in Tacoma. Your legacy. Obama's legacy. In 4k resolu [COGNITOHAZARD DETECTED. ADMINISTERING AMNESTICS. YOU ARE BEING EXPLOITED BY ISRAELIS. EVERYONE WILL BELIEVE YOU. NOBODY WILL REMEMBER. YOU WILL OWN A HOUSE SOMEDAY. MAYBE THEY'RE JUST KIDDING. WAS THAT THE WIND?]