Russia, Iran, and North Korea still have elections.

They will be held. They might not matter, but voting booths will open.

I wish I had your faith that there is a large group of followers that don’t realize they are doing evil.

Seem fairly sound and self evident. Obviously there can be disagreements on judgement, but I can’t think of an scenario where the greater evil should not be opposed.

According to other headlines they already have IDF soldiers refusing to deploy to Gaza and going to prison instead. The Nazis invented the gas chambers because shooting crowds of civilians was leaving their SS troopers disabled with PTSD. they need to gamify it to provide some psychological cover for their grunts to finish the job.

Here in the US most schools gave up trying to ban phones in the 2010’s.

Dems control districting of fewer seats than reps. That’s just a path to permanent minority rule by the reps.

Now there is a path of escalation I had no anticipated. The Republican federal judges rule the cali maps unconstituonal, Cali goes forward anyway because the 10th amendment and that ruling is patent bullshit. Then Republicans refuse to seat the Cali delegation to Congress, essentially seizing power.

That would set the hair of neoliberals on fire.

Begining of the end? Nah, these seeds were planted by Nixon, they sprouted under Reagan, Bush watered them, Trump is just harvesting them.

Realistically, Clinton, Obama, and Biden watered them too, just not as generously.

The supreme court, which has nothing to say as trump dismantles the US government, will suddenly stop any action by a Democrat, should one ever attain the white house. (Or any other non-psychotic president). Any change must include removal of those corrupt individuals from their place of power.

The strong do as they please and the weak suffer what they must.

Not gonna stop until they find out how that worked for the Athenians.

We need a few more sherifs like 'Ol Smiling Cid Hatfield.

Laws have never stopped him before.

Honestly, with the right propaganda it won’t take that long.

Ranked choice voting is a good idea, but time will not save us. Millenians are shifting right, just a decade behind other generations.

Impeachment is worthless without a supermajority in the Senate.

I didn’t specify party. Congress could remove him, the Republican Senators refuse to do so.

I don’t think, if they voted to impeach, the FBI and capitol police would be like “nah, we are keeping him.”

I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Rigged how? Do you think they flipped votes? Who got more primary delegates? Sanders? Biden? Or Clinton?

Most obviously: impeachment.

Less direct: passing laws stating “you can’t do that.”

Least direct but the final boss: denying funding to whatever department he is using to do things they don’t like.

I suppose a full coup could establish funding sources not controlled by congress, but I suspect that things like bond markets would react unfavorably to a government power struggle on that scale. A dictator unconstrained by constitutional safeguards is not a safe bet to lend money to, and economic firestorm would topple even a successful coup as billionaires, pensions, and corporations saw their wealth evaporate and working people lost their jobs.

Let’s be clear, the courts and legislature could stop this, they choose not to. They are captured. When/if a Democrat reaches the White House again they will not have half the power that Trump wields.

(The courts are a little iffy, but I’m still confident the legislature could stop it if they wanted)

Parties didn’t put those politicians on the ballot, voters did. The Democratic party got rid of smoke filled rooms and contested conventions in the 1970’s and the Republican party followed suit in the 1980’s.

If you are disatisfied with the pols on offer, you have only to look to your neighbors.

They feel trapped by the system because they are trapped by the system. Even the politicians are trapped by the system. Voters know which ones are full of shit because the answer is literally all of them.

AOC has gotten pushback recently for her vote for weapons to Israel. I don’t think she forgot where she came from in 8 years, I think she works in a system that is corrosive, where you are punished for pushing back and rewarded for conformity in ways that even the strongest principles cannot resist.

The voters do not care and are not privy to the pressures and compromises the pols are making. I don’t think the system is fixable in any foreseeable timeframe. And for that reason, I am content to throw my vote to the least bad candidate. I’ll keep doing that in primaries and general elections until we don’t get to vote anymore. Hopefully, it never gets that far.