The founding fathers made a system reliant on most of the voters being literate landowners.

It kinda worked in such a situation, because it was (among those voters) relatively egalitarian.

It was also supported by functional free press.

Now things have changed to the point where mass media are not very good, censorship is a real problem, even if it's not by the government, and, ahem, political mechanisms have gotten a bit rusty even compared to 50s.

Isn't Canada closer?..

Or French Guiana. It's EU, and at the same time you get tropical beaches and wonderful nature.

Or one of the Scandinavian countries.

I mean, if you want Germany, then fine.

Na you did that just fine but supporting harris do blindly she wouldn't move her policy positions.

1. I'm not an American voter.

2. My bullshit before the election usually involved saying that you still have to vote for Harris.

3. I'd say the media bullshit about the support of candidates, that communicated the wrong picture to Americans deciding whether to vote, has contributed much more than anything I ever wrote.

4. No reason to panic. It's just 4 more years, and then another election. Usually when someone promises you massacres and other bad things, you believe them, but not in this case - you've elected people who've never followed up on their promises.

5. I live in Russia, so you had it coming for the older disingenuous bullshit about Russia being "just an imperfect democracy" and Putin being better than some imagined unholy alliance of communists and neo-Nazis.