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  • A top-two runoff system is considered democracy. A system where the two parties are just the same thing, like in North Korea, is not.

    Americans consider their two parties as very flexible about what they stand for. If there is a big enough group not represent by the incumbent, the other parties’ primary will be biased towards this group.

    What we saw this time around, though, was two incumbents running against each other with no room for the non-represented group to be reflected. Thus, to that group at least, it felt like there was no difference (at least in the represtation).

    Those that believed that there was no difference are now finding out how much of a difference it was - and they are now yearning for another vote to fix things.













  • There is saying things, there is not doing things, and there is doing things.

    Trump could say: “What if there was one day where there was no laws and people could just do anything, like the purge…” and… oh, he did say that during his first term. And democracy still survived. Saying things just make people loose respect for America. It is why Obama got the Nobel peace prize. Cause he stopped saying the shit that Bush was saying.

    What people should be worried about is actions and inactions. It takes competency to do things. The more fascist a thing Trump wants to do, the more competent people leave and the less likely it is to be done. The true problem is it takes no level of competency to not do a thing.

    So Trump’s end game is “Ask not what your country can do for you … because it can no longer do that.”