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Democracy: Terms and Conditions Apply

What do you call someone who enters a game, loses, then flips the board and says the rules were unfair all along? In politics, that move has become alarmingly familiar. It’s not just outrage — it’s a refusal to accept that other people’s choices count. In recent years, we’ve seen conservative figures across North America participate in elections with full enthusiasm, only to question their legitimacy the moment results don’t go their way. What they dislike isn’t a broken system — it’s a functioning one that includes people they can’t control.

Empathy Was Optional. Consequences Aren’t.

There is a pervasive tendency to frame suffering as something external, a tragedy that happens to others, as if it is entirely separate from the choices, cultures, and systems that shape it. This perspective, often rooted in polite analysis, distances responsibility from those experiencing hardship, as if suffering simply falls from the sky. But in the case of America, that narrative doesn’t tell the whole story. The systems that uphold comfort and wealth have long been built on the quiet acceptance of injustice, both abroad and at home, where apathy, cruelty, and indifference to the suffering of others have been normalized.