Quote from Ghost of Cutten:
You seem to harbour an illusion that you are a moral person, trying to do the right thing in a world that rewards selfishness and venality. But you betray your true motives - you are not, or were not, trying to do the right thing for the sake of virtue; you were doing it in the hope of achieving various rewards that would satisfy your ego. E.g. success, making the world a better place, and so on. Now those rewards seem to you (probably incorrectly IMO - you really think the voting populace have ever been some kind of enlightened philosopher-citizens?) to have disappeared, you lose interest in 'doing good'.
If you were in a concentration camp in 1944, or some other truly dire situation, then I could empathise with your weakness. But the reality is that you are one of the most privileged and spoiled human beings in the history of the cosmos, by virtue of being a 1st world citizen with (presumably) gainful employment, full mental faculties, and no serious health issues.
It is therefore clear that your self-professed virtue was not done for virtuous reasons at all, but was just done to satisfy your own selfish desires - to see the world become how you want it to become. True virtue is not done for consequences, it is done out of duty, for its own sake. A truly virtuous action is heroic precisely because it remains so even in ignominious failure - the effort and intention itself is what gives it merit.
I suggest you do an honest reassessment of your own life and value system. If you truly want to be 'good', then it doesn't matter a damn if one navy-suited politician has limited power for 4 years instead of another, especially in the USA where separation of powers is stronger than almost any other country except Switzerland. What matters is that you are committed to furthering your honest, unselfish perception of the greater good, and gain honour and glory by pursuing it to the best of your ability. Anything else is just selfish reactionary old-fart bullshit.
Don't become one of those pathetic ranting old gits, forever moaning about how the world has gone to hell. We see them in every generation, and they are wrong every time. You are in danger of becoming the modern-day equivalent of 1860s former plantation owners nostalgic about the passing of slavery.
Nothing is more laughable than a privileged person whining about how hard they have it. Try being a 3rd world citizen, hard-working but fucked over by the corrupt and powerful, or stuffed due to being born in hard circumstances not of your own making. Then you wouldn't whine like a bitch about such trivialities as not always having the world turn out like you want.
Get a grip and harden the fuck up.
