@anewname
this is one of the best pieces of political reporting basically ever, and the thesis is: they want you exhaust you. the point is to make an electorate that is so disengaged as to give over any sense of participating in democracy: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/david-foster-wallace-on-john-mccain-the-weasel-twelve-monkeys-and-the-shrub-194272/