Far Lands or Bust Stream 2020/10/31 Episode 804.5

Far Lands or Bust Stream 2020/10/31 Episode 804.5 is the thirteenth bonus Far Lands or Bust stream.
==Video Overview==
Kurt preps the first casual Far Lands or Bust stream in a while that he is going to say some things about politics and current events in the episode and he understands if people do not want to hear that discussed. He thinks about earlier this year before covid blew up talking a bit about it, and also what he was thinking streaming on Election Day in 2016 and ending before the results started coming in. Kurt says he initially was welcoming of people who voted for Trump to the series, but that excuse does not hold water anymore. Kurt was driving the Datsun and saw a giant pickup truck flowing with Trump flags, and it clicked for him that the Trump supporter saw it simply as a sport. Kurt is such an empathetic person that it is difficult for him to accept all the horrible things Trump is doing. Although it looks like Biden is going to win, Kurt is very worried about the limbo especially if it initially appears Trump is winning but Biden overtakes him with absentee ballots. In that scenario, Kurt is worried about who will be on the side of the Democrats. Kurt thinks a lot of problems in America will not be fixed immediately, as well as acknowledgement that the current electoral system is how we ended up in this situation. 
Kurt thinks that Americans are being held in complacency while wealth inequality ramps up, and mentions a founding document saying Americans are obligated to overthrow an unrepresentative government. Kurt feels guilty for doing things, like when he picked pumpkins at a pumpkin patch even though everyone had masks on and they weren't there long. His older sister got covid, and Kurt was worried she would die as she was asthmatic and he was also worried about his parents. The government has not been looking out for people during the pandemic, frustrating because the government is supposed to be the people. Kurt sold a lot of his funds when the stock market recovered from covid in anticipation of a big future stock market dip. With covid lockdowns returning in Europe, Kurt thinks it will not happen in America as America is too about 'freedom'. Now Americans do have to worry intensely about politics because politicians are not acting in the interests of Americans. The Girlfriend made Kurt watch the last debate which was annoying to him. Kurt in 2016 saw a lot of people framing the election as the lesser of two evils which he disagreed with, saying people have to accept incremental change.
Saying he did not have a grand thesis or declaration, Kurt largely reaches the end of his current events discussion. Responding to a viewer, Kurt says he does not know if any family members are pro-Trump as he has not talked to family recently. He also mentions that the two-party system is very ingrained in America. Kurt says he does not vote on economics, because he is not an economist, but then says health care should not private company ran. In Kurt's mind, a vocal minority do not consider common courtesy and generosity. Kurt says he had not talked police reform yet, and said using a progressive voter guide wrote in someone for sheriff that wasn't a career police officer. Kurt hopes it will be an unexciting and bland next few weeks, and with that digs in a final Hidey Hole.