I was very pleased to see millions and millions of registered voters stay home on Election Day.
I sure know I did.
I had absolutely no intention of participating in a rigged game. I have no interest in putting the next governor in office to continue to oppress my rights, raise my taxes, keep my income down and charge me fees at every single possible opportunity.
The politicians in this city are so completely distanced from Main Street people like me; I can’t even begin to see why I would play their game.
Politics is just a game rich people play. The best that can happen is my income improves a few hundred dollars. Hardly worth the wide scale corruption and misery left in the wake by giving other power-hungry people the validation they need to continue mussing things up.
I find it funny, the people who say I can’t complain because I didn’t vote. I complain that you did vote. Please stop. You continue to participate in a criminally insane machine that has indebted this city beyond reconciliation.
Citizens are fleeing in scale numbers, and I also think that’s great. Chicago doesn’t have the resources or the infrastructure to support them. And when I finish up what I need to do here, I’ll be gone as well. Counting down the days to it.
I laugh equally as hard at the prospect of Amazon coming to Chicago as I did with the 2016 Olympics. It’s another laughable promise made by politicians, mayors and adermen in the long line of the same kind of promises a last-ditch alcoholic makes. The only thing coming is more of our hard-earned money to line their pockets. Our quality of life will continue to go down.
Democracy and politics in Chicago is a failed experiment, and in any good culture, the game would have been ended decades ago. Just remember, my fellow virtuous voters, when a person is given power is the exact moment said person departs from being your ally.
— Kyle Tyrrell, Chicago
