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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
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Rest at ease, friend, you've landed on free parking. Do what you like but be kind otherwise, straight to jail.
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I disagree with your assumption that democrats will be allowed power again. The subtext is, and always has been, we are going to do things like Russia does them. We are are going to ally ourselves with other authoritians and the only thing we will evaluate is strength. That is the strength of the ruling class's ability to control.
Sure we are talking about the same thing at the end but in my vesrion democracy as we know it will not survive and even the disaffected should have to come to terms with that. Whether they express helplessness or contentment is not something I can control but all of this will set the stage for what comes next.
Honestly think things would be better if you were correct. Because that would imply my people are not fools and have some potential hope later.
But having worked as a programmer for a few decades, making systems that are distributed; understanding the technical problems; seen the conferences where voting machines in the USA were discussed; studied the stats over two decades of ballot stuffing; seen the anti intellectualism about ballot counting in both major parties; discussed voting machines while I was active in politics in Texas; and seen the complete rejection of paper ballots by the Democratic Party in most areas of the country especially in states they could potentially win by hand recounts.
I have to conclude my people are fools and are being played like a fiddle; and I don’t see why this should stop.
Just because there will be horrible things happening the next three years, possibly with great loss of life; and just because I myself will probably be imprisoned. Does not mean these trends will stop