In a recent survey, 30% of Republicans said that Trump, if he loses, should seize power by whatever means necessary. This is not politics this is war. It means that should Kamala Harris squeak out a victory (I can't believe I am saying that) there will be some deeply dissatisfied cult members some of whom exist on an unhinged hair trigger from living inside their echo chambers. Odd that this should happen with our unprecedented access to information.
The founding fathers understood that their population couldn't be completely trusted to vote intelligently and set up an electoral college that now hampers the country from advancing past short term thinking and cultural warfare from the red side of the aisle.
I have talked to enough people in my life to give up on the idea of informed and intelligent voting all-around but still count on basic instinct and goodness of the majority to much of the time counter the worst cases of brain fog among the electorate. Besides, much of time it's a question of the lesser of two evils.
Not this time.
Trump was already of dubious intelligence before his current state worsened to talking about penis envy, but the fact that for so many this is completely irrelevant is the far more troubling question.
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