I love this stream immensely but to serve the vision of its founder perhaps I need to step down.

Without a doubt you use this stream the most, and as such have had a major impact on the tone of it, but I can tell you that it certainly hasn't become 'PolticsTOO II'(I couldn't resist adding roman numerals).

Why?

Because you have made an effort to engage the other side in some of your past memes and to find common ground. It is true I haven't seen that type of content in a while, and have barely seen any content from users with opposing viewpoints. You're worried that your heavy use of the stream has made it inhospitable to said users, but I think different factors have caused their absence. For starters, this stream is on the smaller side, so while it may get a new follower here and there(which I do appreciate), it certainly isn't as prevalent as the 'politics' or 'PoliticsTOO' streams. Those attract the majority of those with political interests on this site.

No, I don't think you shouldn't step back from the stream(and I'm not saying that because you post the majority of content here). Keep posting as much as you like, it wouldn't be fair to hold you to a double standard.

My generation isn't that great. I appreciate your faith in us and I hope you're right, but we really aren't that great.

I'll be honest with you: about 2 months ago I stopped paying attention to the presidential election. Oh sure, I hope Biden wins, and I'd vote if I could, but man I can't say I'm really very excited at all. Either way the election goes there's gonna be trouble, hopefully not too much but trouble nonetheless. Maybe I'm a bit paranoid, but everyone called the preppers crazy until the pandemic kicked in hard. As John Fogetry would say: 'There's a bad moon on the rising'.

I appreciate it. I'll consider sticking around: maybe posting less often and making more of an effort to steer away from cross-posting PoliticsTOO-like content here in this stream.

I've always been politically astute ever since I was about your age. My first experience being politically engaged was in opposing the Iraq War. My dad actually took me to a giant anti-Iraq War rally in 2007. Hundreds of thousands of marchers on Washington, D.C. and barely any media coverage -- just a few local D.C. news vans. It was weird. Definitely felt like the anti-war movement was the target of a media blackout conspiracy.

Sure, the GOP were the main culprits behind that war, but the Democrats dilly-dallied too long and were not forceful enough in opposing it, IMO. This set me on the path toward rejecting both parties, embracing libertarianism and supporting Ron Paul in the '08 election. His courage in vigorously denouncing the War from within the GOP impressed me more than the Democratic candidates' universal rejection of it by that point despite the fact many of them (HRC and Joe Biden included) initially voted to authorize it.

Ironically I actually cast my general election vote in '08 for John McCain since he impressed me with his record of military service and bipartisanship in the Senate, although I disagreed with him strongly about that Iraq War issue. Obama seemed like too much of an unproven quantity, all-things-to-all-people type. Though his rhetoric of optimism and change was stirring.

I then voted Gary Johnson in '12 and '16 because neither major party candidate excited me.

However, I can state with certainty 2020 feels like the most important election in my lifetime. And not in that cliche way both parties always talk about every 4 years. There was a time that both parties seemed like Tweedledee and Tweedledum to me. That is no longer the case -- it's not even about policy differences anymore. Simply put, one side acknowledges reality, the other does not. The GOP has a rubber-stamp party for Trump's self-contradictory and self-aggrandizing whims. Literally they said this time that their platform was whatever Trump wanted.

The Iraq War was a tremendously costly blunder, but the economic and human toll of mishandling that war vs. mishandling coronavirus is not even close. Simply put this election is a fight for our lives.

If I didn't think it was tremendously important, I probably wouldn't be here on ImgFlip posting as much as I do.

When it comes to Gen Z: Your generation has certainly impressed me more than the older crowd on ImgFlip. Many of you guys are mature beyond your years. The childishness and the poor example that many of ImgFlip's self-proclaimed adults set is inexcusable.

But what can you expect after all from those who *still* support Trump at this late a date. The sheer number of moral compromises and crimes against intelligence that they've had to swallow to sustain support for this narcissistic oaf by this point boggles the mind.

I am emotionally mature enough to take whatever heat they throw at me, but what boils my blood is when their hatefulness starts to rub off on young memers intoxicated by the prospect of gaining a pass with a certain "in-crowd" who shouldn't be getting mixed up in that nonsense. Thankfully, I don't see that happening too often.