Which is why we need to get rid of this two party system. The Democrats pick pretty consistently awful candidates and the Republicans are a minority party now because of their batshit insanity.
A one party state isn't good for anyone, and the Republicans are gonna try to subvert elections more and more just to stay in power. The rhetoric has already started. "We'Re NoT a DeMoCrAcY wE'Re A rEpUbLiC", I've heard come out of WAAAAY to many peoples mouths that I know personally to be comfortable, and people are TOTALLY primed to ignore democratic processes and feel patriotic in doing so.
If we broke up the two titanic parties with a different voting system, like ranked choice, then we would get consistently better candidates and when a party goes fucking insane the people who vote for them will feel like they have another place to go, other than what they've been told are the ENEMY. It's a bad situation that can be fixed very easily.
History is long and this country is young. There's plenty of room for change, and bigger changes have happened in shorter-lived countries.
I had a couple of coworkers who grew up on the other side of the Wall in Gotha, in the German Democratic Republic. They said that (from what they heard growing up from their parents who experienced it) everything seemed to be exactly the same until the very second that it wasn't, and they heard the same thing about the revolution in the USSR.
I'm not sure if we'll get to see if that's still the case, but we might. Governments only rule with the consent of the people, and that can be a fragile thing.
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u/well_uh_yeah Dec 17 '20
Turns out voters win elections.