#depressing world

Of course you don't. The entire idea of abstaining was that you could pretend this didn't involve you. Not getting blamed was more important to you than doing any kind of damage control, more important than protecting any of the people you said you wanted to protect. And in this moment, I don't really care what you want. Of course, this isn't entirely your fault. Of course other people made this worse. But if you're going to pretend you had nothing to do with this, forgive me if I ignore you.

I’m not going to pretend this doesn’t affect me.Even if it ads one more thing to the pile of shit that I can’t do shit about.

And the thing is, on Tumblr especially, you find a lot of sentiment to the effect of "If you don't agree with me about what we should do and why we should do it, you're part of the problem." And that's just not helpful. We're gonna need the people who are extremely patriotic but fighting for change if we want that change at all. In fact, we're probably going to have to work with people much worse than that. Working towards improvement is always going to be better than being ideologically pure, which is good, because being ideologically pure is straight-up not going to happen.

The article tries to sound neutral about it, but it does sort of cough and say, "Hey, you know that thing? Remember what it's been doing to the water supply? Same deal." as politely as possible.