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Doug Smith's avatar

Cheating and machine politics are not a new phenomenon. Here in WV, a former SC Justice, now serving time for corruption, wrote a book about Joe Kennedy buying WV for JFK, while his buddy Mayor Daley of Chicago provided Illinois. Nixon knew he had been robbed, but chose not to drag the country through the fight. Years, and a nasty war, with 50,000 dead later, Nixon won and ended the war.

His reward? Watergate. The toxicity of our politics has grown for some time, arguably put on a whole new level by the Clintons.

And yet, perhaps 30% of eligible voters can be troubled to make thier voice part of the chorus.

People who hate what is happening, but not enough to get off their asses to vote, let alone work for decent candidates, are not going to do more than whine.

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Deplorable California Refugee's avatar

Quite right, I’ve been saying something similar for a while. We have a behemoth (and unconstitutional) administrative state, a major political party, the fourth estate of media and big tech all aligned against the concepts and constraints imposed by the constitution. In theory the judiciary branch would operate to check their power, but the founders did not envision this and the courts are completely inadequate. I’d say we are already at the point of your last sentence. Elections now serve as entertainment and distractions to let the masses think we still have representative government.

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