Iraq had a WMD program, we've intentionally destabilized the global south forever, Israel's retired head of security tells the atlantic there's an almost formalized policy of torture there, Nixon was the most forward-thinking and progressive president, and on...and on...

It's all trivial bullshit,and I'm probably dead wrong on half of my political views, but we're eating clocktime on the big scoreboard---the last half-century changed how things work. there was some linear and predictable nature to stuff, now it's exponential for everything. we've killed off most top-level predators and woods hole tells us possibly over 1/2 of "large" fish in the ocean. there are too many people, and the growth is all in undeveloped countries anyhow. there's the matter that is the planet, and we're manipulating it measurably, usually resulting in a net loss in energy that takes a long time to get to naturally. and we still can't stop viruses, groups lacking the understanding to develop the things themselves have nukes.
i pay enough attention to politics, but do we even have 100 years to sort this stuff out? sorry for the wildly disjointed rant all, election years end up depressing the fuck out of me though.