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16 Nov, 15 tweets, 3 min read
That which took nearly two and a half centuries to build is being deconstructed before our eyes.
The way to win now is to claim that you can't win because the system is rigged. People eat it up.

Concern with potential vulnerabilities and historical red flags about electoral fraud has become a certainty, an article of anti-faith, be you a Sanders, Abrams, or Trump fan.
I don't want to sound hysterical about the future of <scare quotes> Our Democracy, but just to point out that calling the system rigged is another way of saying you don't know how that system works -- and it's a self-fulfilling self-justification.
And while were all taking mental notes on this awful place we're in, where the GA SoS -- who was recently the target of Democrat ire -- is now being attacked by the Republican President, note that all of this is in the midst of more election spending than in our nation's history.
Participation, both with campaign contributions and turnout, is at a peak, but the selling point is that the whole thing is a scam, and only more of your partisan money will save it.
This is unsustainable. At some point, we need to face the fact that we are a divided nation -- you win some, and you lose some.
When it gets to the point where the proposed "solution" is to engage in Weimar cosplay street-fighting -- and the President encourages it on the Right, and Democrats are silent (except Biden and a few others) in the face of the same thing on the Left -- we have a problem.
Americans who fancy themselves victims of a corrupt system take our overseas reputation for provincialism and naivete and turn it into an outright age regression.
It's not just Trump by any stretch, but both the Left and the Right are blind to the extent to which Trump is simply an amplification and exploitation of existing infantile tendencies on both sides of the aisle.

So you hate incrementalism?

Too bad. Grow up.
And in conclusion:

"Well tell my old grandmother!"
The America worth saving is not the America where half the country thinks the other half of the country should be imprisoned for thought crimes, and visa versa.
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