My friends are harmful for my health

In the fifteen years since I was last gainfully employed and through two alleged economic recoveries that have transpired since that time, it has been an ongoing source of pain to me that not one person I know has connected me with employment. In that time, I have completed a Bachelor’s degree, a Master’s degree, and a Ph.D. It is not like I have nothing to offer.

But to many of my friends, as to the world in general, it is as if I have no value. In my self-introduction page, I write,

Imagine being sealed in a concrete tomb, buried a mile underground. No matter how loudly you scream, no matter how hard you pound your fists on the walls, no one will hear you. This is what my job search often feels like.

But in fact it’s worse. Because some people do hear me. They have a fantasy that something will surely come through for me. They have been saying this, in one form or another, since I lost my last real job in the dot-com crash in 2001. It never happens, but they just carry on with their lives, as year, after year, after year passes.

It is my problem after all, not theirs. But it is a problem I am incapable of solving on my own.

I go on to detail my efforts to find work. But for all that, in all that time, I have had a grand total of three interviews for employment that even remotely reflects my value. I am twisting on the vine here, unable to go anywhere or do anything, because I have so little money. One would think that friends wouldn’t allow friends to suffer so.

But now, with the 2016 election, some of them will surely do something even more egregious. They will vote for one of the presumptive major party candidates. They will do so because, allegedly, “the other guy is worse.”

In doing so, they endorse the sitting president who both is complicit in the war crimes of his predecessor and has committed crimes of his own.[1] They vote for his first Secretary of State, who has been on the wrong side of every major foreign policy issue in the last twenty-five years[2] and who invoked 9/11 in defense of her support for and from Wall Street.[3] Let me say it more directly: My friends are voting in support of war crimes. Because, despite this absolute evil, internationally recognized as such at the end of World War II, “the other guy is worse.”

In voting for this candidate, my friends also vote not only for Wall Street, but for neoliberalism, insider influence, and widening social inequality.[4] And this is where the political becomes personal.

It is neoliberalism that so loves the so-called “free market,” that it seeks to apply market principles even to non-economic dilemmas. It is neoliberalism that so loves so-called “free trade,” that it insists workers are better off disposable, unemployed, hungry, scrambling for what little work they can find, and even homeless than they are paying higher prices (but exorbitant rents are A-OK). It is neoliberalism that scapegoats the poor and eviscerates the social safety net that offers any protection for the poor whatsoever. It is neoliberalism that imagines corporate monopolies as benign and labor unions as the proper subjects of aggressive anti-trust enforcement. It is neoliberalism that devalues a liberal education in favor of job training. It is neoliberalism that celebrates greed and reduces all value to profit and loss.[5] It is neoliberalism that slams the door in my face whenever I think I’ve found one that’s open. My friends are voting for this, too. Because, allegedly, “the other guy is worse.”

Look, I understand that Donald Trump is a horrible person. I get that. But when my friends try to rationalize Hillary Clinton as somehow less horrible, they diminish the evil of my condition. And they move from passively allowing me to twist on the vine to actually taking action to harm me.

 

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