Seconded. For all of the dooming, the Republicans (namely the MAGA types) have done a very good job of clamping down on the voting and taking over shit that matters in order to keep the elections from being "fortified" again outside of some extremely limited areas. And then we have the fact that the Dems are poised to get BTFO'ed in so many different places that they are going to have to chose who lives and who dies because they dont have the resources, and even after saving who they can they will still probably come up short to keep power.
Incidentally, this follows the trend of US Elections where irregularities and fraud happens. It will always exist in a handful of entrenched areas (New York, Chicago, LA being the prime examples). But when you try it on a larger scale, the person who got screwed has a tendency to come back pissed off and full of rage, and eat your gains as they run you down. So you only have a few years to plunder anything you can before they come and crush you (see also: the Andrew Jackson vs. Quincy Adams election of 1825).
It is a nation of cowards and sheep, run by a cabal of lifetime D.C. bureaucrats who will do anything to maintain and expand their power.
The states are managed by feckless yuppies who live to enrich themselves and their offspring, and the occasional civic-minded public official is looked at with awe, like a unicorn, and held up as an example of a functioning republic by people desperate to erase the fact that they've been deluded all their lives, fooled by history and groping for long-dead ideals.
Seconded. For all of the dooming, the Republicans (namely the MAGA types) have done a very good job of clamping down on the voting and taking over shit that matters in order to keep the elections from being "fortified" again outside of some extremely limited areas. And then we have the fact that the Dems are poised to get BTFO'ed in so many different places that they are going to have to chose who lives and who dies because they dont have the resources, and even after saving who they can they will still probably come up short to keep power.
Incidentally, this follows the trend of US Elections where irregularities and fraud happens. It will always exist in a handful of entrenched areas (New York, Chicago, LA being the prime examples). But when you try it on a larger scale, the person who got screwed has a tendency to come back pissed off and full of rage, and eat your gains as they run you down. So you only have a few years to plunder anything you can before they come and crush you (see also: the Andrew Jackson vs. Quincy Adams election of 1825).
It is a nation of cowards and sheep, run by a cabal of lifetime D.C. bureaucrats who will do anything to maintain and expand their power.
The states are managed by feckless yuppies who live to enrich themselves and their offspring, and the occasional civic-minded public official is looked at with awe, like a unicorn, and held up as an example of a functioning republic by people desperate to erase the fact that they've been deluded all their lives, fooled by history and groping for long-dead ideals.
And it's really always been this way.