> Democracy is dead, the election is just a formality,
Anyone who is old enough to remember Bush V Gore and the hanging chads knows deep down inside. Cognitive dissonance is a real thing.
LBJ was what did it for a lot of the prior generation.
Dewey and Lindbergh for the generation before that.
Ect.
There is nothing new under the sun.
I hate GW Bush with a passion but I think he won. Gore’s faggots cheated - that’s for sure - and I think it’s because they needed to. The only way to replicate/produce dimpled chads was to try to punch multiple votes at the same time. What a coincidence that they all went for Gore.
Gore’s people claiming they “found more votes” eventually became the playbook for Democrats. But it didn’t work in 2000. Probably because bush cheated even harder.
But if they felt they needed to cheat my estimation is that bush probably won legitimately.
I view gore/bush in direct relation to 9-11. It was the supreme court's interference that made it remarkable (that and destroying the middle east)
WWII couldn't have happened without dewey/limdbergh and several others being neutralized.
Civil Rights and immigration reform would have happened very differently or not at all had JFK not been assassinated.
My take away is that any measure will be taken to put the right people in place. Elections are sometimes an inconvenience when you really need to get things done and are handled accordingly. As you said "just a formality."
I would say that the majority of voters do not believe that the democratic process is functioning (just over awareness of campaign finance issues alone). The situation will be tolerated as long as the average standard of living is relatively high.
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