[Source.](https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/you-cant-vote-your-way-out-of-a-mess) > Well it's that time again. Time for everyone to spend a year and a half pouring mountains of mental energy into arguing about who should be the next President of the United States of America. > Friendships will be shattered. Family dinners will be ruined. Social media activists will lose themselves in weeks-long flame wars. And, when all is said and done, the person sworn into office on January 2024 will oversee an administration which governs in more or less the same way as their predecessors. > As Tom Woods put it, no matter who you vote for, you get John McCain. Hat tip to @Ex-Redditor on this one. I came across it when I clicked on [another post](https://poal.co/s/USPolitics/642757) he shared by the same author.