It feels as if we are in a sort of waiting room of history. It feels as if we are in this

transitional period where we're waiting for something to give. We know something has to give.

The status quo is untenable and unsustainable, but yet it remains. It persists. And it is this sort of dissident

feeling that I have, that I think a lot of you probably have, where we see a fundamentally

irrational, corrupt, delegitimized system that most people reject on some level

or another, continuing to stumble along and convince itself that it's still here for the long run.

And by this system, by this thing I'm talking about, I mean many different things, or one big thing.

It's the system. Just speaking nationally, the United States political and economic system.

Globally, the U.S. Empire and the hegemonic status quo and the post-World War II norm that has, you know, really

been entrenched for our entire lives and several decades before many of us were even born.

It's this long unraveling, but nothing new feels like it's emerging.

And we are sitting right now a couple days before the next election.

And it feels much, you know, in opposition to the way that that full on party cultists on either side think and talk.

It feels very meaningless. I remember in 2016, you know, I was

no fan of Hillary Clinton, absolutely hated her. My criticisms of the Democratic Party were

fully up and operating. But when Trump got elected, I remember there was this, this emotional shock.

Protests erupted around the country. I remember having anxiety when I woke up in the morning

and I saw that that Trump had won, like physical, visceral anxiety about what's going to happen.

It felt new.

It felt sort of, you know, scary.

I was organizing at that time.

You know, we were protesting in Omaha constantly.

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