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SimulationCommander's avatar

Awesome post! The datacrime in the last few years has been breathtaking, and Americans (and others around the world) just swallow it all, hook, line, and sinker. (Edit: "like" instead of "line" is an ironic typo in the social media age!)

At this point I'm at the stage where we should dip our fingers in ink after we vote. Votes that don't leave the polling place and are counted in plain view. This is only difficult because certain people benefit from the election chaos and WANT it to be difficult.

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

Your grief over the necrotizing election system is well-founded, Naomi, but I fear this corruption of the democratic process has been going on for far longer than you may imagine, as Mark Crispin Miller outlines in this eye-opening article:

• “What we might learn about this next election from what happened on November 22, 1963” (https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/what-we-might-learn-about-this-next)

Even though Mark traces the manipulation back to Kennedy’s assassination, it goes even farther back than that, with Joseph Kennedy colluding with the mafia to help win the election for JFK (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-09-mn-51973-story.html).

We have been living under the illusion of democracy for decades, perhaps more than a century. The only difference between prior steals and present ones is the perpetrators have grown more sophisticated in their methods and more brazen in their application.

As Frank Zappa prophesied:

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

We are now approaching that brick wall at warp speed. How many more election cycles before they yank back the curtains?

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