General Discussion

Voters fucked around and we all will find out. Americans failed on merit and will now reap the consequences.

Before the election I had the nauseating feeling that the choice on offer was between decline and disaster. Americans had to recognize the reality and make the responsible ADULT decision. They were not up to the task.

We already had a de facto oligarchy that had veto power over law by exercising the senate's 60-vote filibuster roadblock. Laws that weren't liked were subject to reinterpretation or outright dismissal by the captive supreme court. State legislative majorities and redistricting maps were locked in by gerrymandered districts. "Moderate" Republicans were rendered obsolete by the Citizens United-enabled ability of billionaires to primary the uncooperative. Fat purses enabled oligarchs to dominate media ownership and use their control to alternately censor or frame the terms of public discussion.

Electing Kamala would have ameliorated the worst abuses, not ended them. Electing Musk/Trump tears off the bandage. How much more decline is in store? We are about to find out.