The real story in this cycle is the fucking sorry excuse for a Democratic party that has, what, tranformed into a grey, blob of indistinguishable nothingness that you step over. Here's an excellent podcast that reflects my take very well.

Somewhere along the line the progressives became the machine. They used to suck at it compared to the corporate organization of conservative politics - but they then started to beat them at their own game. Trouble is, machines are soulless.

A poet friend called Jesse alerted me to the concept of thinking inside the box. He's a rap guy, so his box is: it's gotta rhyme
The box for politics is that it's theatre. It's gotta engage the audience - in the age of the internet. It's Reality Internet.
The box's rules are: Don't fuck up the economy if you do get into power

Inside that game, you need your frontman to have charisma. Kennedy had it, Clinton had it, Obama had it, but the machine rose on their backs & started to strangle the very thing that made the party a success.

It's very hard to tell what will become of Trump's term, if anything. If you look at his last term, nothing really happened. Just like Obama, lots of expectation, but nothing really changed.

If that's the end result for Taiwan, actually i'm fine with that.

It's all smoke and mirrors in my opinion. Yes, there will be cosmetic changes. The whore that is the US congress, adiministrative and judicial branches will wear a different perfume and raise or lower their hem, but the machine will still be a whore to the corporatocracy.

That's the key point - it is smoke & mirrors projected on a Plato's cave wall - by the machine. Our perception of reality is fundamentally illusive. Either the reality we experience is a game-simulation - or it's so much like one that it's a moot point.