Someone in an Urbit chat group just posted a link to an article I’d never seen about vote fraud in the 2020 election. The essay was written in December of that year on a blog called The Adventures of Shylock Holmes, and it is probably the best analysis of the question that I have yet to see. (That’s in part because very few people ever actually did any serious analysis, and because the courts at every level blocked nearly every case, on procedural grounds, from actually going to trial.)
You can read the article here.
I don’t know about you, but at this point I have no remaining confidence whatsoever in our electoral system — or, quite frankly, in the American system of government. It is all, at this point, a titanic, colossal failure, a rotting corpse whose lingering twitchings and gibberings are not signs of life, but merely the movements and gaseous exhalations of the necrophagic parasites devouring its decomposing tissues from within.
What comes next? What is to be done?
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What is to be done? From a wordsmith of a past era:
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an ‘inconvenience.’ We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.
Frank Zappa