God is dead. History is dead. Democracy is dead.

I don't want to intrude where not needed, but both political parties are governed by neoconservative and neoliberal bureaucrats which are both apart of the same corporate payroll and pocketbook. They're like a team. Anyone is welcome to create a new seat of power based on an ideology, but it inevitably fails to deliver on its promises — why? Because our system of governance is by corporate and banking interests, and not only that, from aristocratic oligarchic ideology, which is what created capitalism in the first place, which always is a monopolistic force seeking hegemony control of production. This is usually done thru the ideology of progress alone. Technology keeps creating inequities that infringe on sovereign liberties enshrined in our constitution.

Ever since we moved from an agrarian and traditional American society to an industrial one where many don't value their work nor find fulfillment in it arose with it a whole host of problems. It's amazing w have endured as much trauma as we have, endowed with as common folk, with an enormous respect for our fellow Americans —they have tried so hard to divide this country and have slowly usurped its wealth and bankrupted its values.

We have problems in our society, and before we can address them they are paved over. Trumpism, Celebrity, there are all kinds of corporate distractions from the truth of this reality.

Our energy model is disastrous and the inefficient. Eventually, it will become that the only power we truly have as citizens is to live off the annual solar supply, but that could very well be criminalized decades from now, and made impossible thru bureaucracy, zoning, permits, and taxation.

America used fertilizers to accelerate its economy into more advanced forms of mercantilism and resource extraction, best practices in order to gain market access to more capital to increase the wealth of the oligarchy. It has also forced farmers to jeopardize their livliehoods because change the price of commodities. This creates rural retreat, and urban creep, because one cannot live off their labor alone.

When we reached peak bird poop, we had to accelerate a still nascent technology to convert ammonia out of the air thru the use of natural gas, then to coal, and later to oil. The monopoly on how energy and production can be used and employed is a large part of why we're in trouble. Those in power know there are better ways to run this planet, but if they methods they would lose their power. Most people ignore this entirely. 90% of them easily.

I'm kinda abrupt when I say this but Hillary Clinton is apart of the same oligarchic regime as Trump, ties with racist organizations and affiliations, and when she couldn't cinch victory gave it over to him. Her family is renown cloak and dagger NGO philanthropy but instead uses its money in order to make money off the most vulnerable in society thru rendering them as capital instruments.

I love how you both can disagree so poignantly and in a mature way, but in the seats of power when your children grow up together and are friends it means something entirely different altogether than what the common American person can understand. These families behave dynastically and they are in alliance with each other against the hungry masses such as we who have no access to the throes of capital because we cannot behave in a sovereign like they do, having been mentally colonized and corrupted thru propaganda. Having no power to influence corporate hegemony with inherited wealth, we try to navigate a system that is set up for us to fail within, because we have not understood at true autonomy comes from being able to have control over your ownpower generation. Isn't it ironic that the common word for electricity is power, yet we have lost the meaning entirely? Eletricity is the means of production that citizens want, but cannot have save for it being allowed under preconditioned ways thata hedge for oligarchic powers to maintain their monopolistic control over our very lives..

It is an entirely different context, and it is silly assume we have any idea what really is going on behind the curtain. The constant Trump reporting is only a means to an end, which is to keep the curtain closed to the Holy of Holies— the conspiratorial nature of their brand of politics. Trump may have catabolized all 12 candidates of the Republican party, but he has still failed to convince me he's anything more than a different tripe and fashioning. He was the only one who wasn't a muppet and it could be well enough assumed that it was planned from the beginning. The common people will never research and know that he was once a Democrat. There is but one end: the accumulation of wealth and power in a globalist elite world in the making. Frank Herbert's novels become much more compelling when you understand this is how the world works and has worked for many millennia. Marxism and progressive liberalism is used when the oligarchs fear pitchforks, invoking the rights of the individual while simultaneously depriving them the People of authenticity, which they then sell to them in a multitude of ways.

Democracy has failed. We live in an Autocratic state with no civilian decentralized energy self-autonomy energy production. We have only a consumption model and thus we get consumption politics, and it is we who are consumed by them parasitically. Hillary champions Marxist values, but knows that it is only a means to destroy traditional values and create a dependency class of people subservient to the oligarchy. It's like having a mascot in team Sports, exactly how most Americans treat politics. We don't actually discuss ideas, merely more ways to give the oligarchy more of our money. Similarly, Trump champions values that esteem him in the eyes of his dependencies, but they would rather use the dinosaur term "constituencies", which have no power, and it is Trump whom is dependent upon a much higher authority in order to do what he does and get away with it.

If you want politics to change, then you need to be aware of how gentrification, suburanism, and ruralism lay together and there needs to be a countervailing rural trend in order to shore our collective trauma and shared American values before they disintegrate by creating communities that become stewards of their land and create opportunities for others by the creation of their own fuels, convertible into propane substitutes. The economics of it is quite compelling. The split in American society is in the energy economy, and not the suburban push to adopt solar panels from market forces controlled by the oligarch elites.

http://www.biomass2methanol.org/

Since you two are still friends it means you have not been mentally enslaved or enshrined, unwilling to sacrifice your friendship to feed a false ego idolatrously in self-righteous indignation. Bravo and much respect.