"The very brazenness of this election theft, the shoplifting, the killings of police, the unwillingness of district attorneys to prosecute and so on makes me skeptical that the United States will be able to turn things around."
As for the election theft, the legislatures in *all* of the states which determined the election and in which fraud pretty obviously happened, were and still are controlled by the Republican Party. And the legislatures determine how the elections are run, if mail in ballots are used, and so on - and they certify the results of elections. So the Republican-controlled legislatures could have acted to ensure the fraud didn't get a chance to happen - and when it was exposed, they could have refused to certify the results, so that the election would have to be re-done. They did neither, and judges tossed the (really weak and stupid) lawsuits, because it's not supposed to be judges who set rules and certify results, it's the legislatures. So actually the Republican Party organizations set things up so the election could be stolen, and then certified the fraudulent result. All the hullaballoo on the "Right" was a carnival of grift, those people knew about the role of the legislatures - and that of courts.
If only it were that simple - election irregularities. I see that several of these battleground states have revised their laws to prevent some conduct. We shall see if effective. A debate about all the avenues used in the cheating is beyond this comments section and I'm not organized enough to put it together. Following several telegraph channels resulted in groups of well meaning people in internal battles over evidence. But an extraordinary number of undervoted ballots (vote only for Joe and nobody else) suggests an effort to check a box took some time. Statistically quite different than ever seen before. Actual fraud requires for a leak to happen someday.
But the Republicans were caught flat footed. The Time article https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign deals with election changes using force of law and courts. Little opposition to them. Imagine how much money they required. Then Zuck's bucks ~ $400M to 'get out the vote' funded a lot of stuff. Not a peep from the R's.
And the feckless R's refuse to work the injustices on the J6 defendants nor oppose the often heavy sentencing for those convicted.
The conflicts of interest in the NIH are awful. They favor high priced drugs developed via US joint patents because their budgets go higher and researchers get a share. Perhaps these revenues should go into the general fund.
"The very brazenness of this election theft, the shoplifting, the killings of police, the unwillingness of district attorneys to prosecute and so on makes me skeptical that the United States will be able to turn things around."
As for the election theft, the legislatures in *all* of the states which determined the election and in which fraud pretty obviously happened, were and still are controlled by the Republican Party. And the legislatures determine how the elections are run, if mail in ballots are used, and so on - and they certify the results of elections. So the Republican-controlled legislatures could have acted to ensure the fraud didn't get a chance to happen - and when it was exposed, they could have refused to certify the results, so that the election would have to be re-done. They did neither, and judges tossed the (really weak and stupid) lawsuits, because it's not supposed to be judges who set rules and certify results, it's the legislatures. So actually the Republican Party organizations set things up so the election could be stolen, and then certified the fraudulent result. All the hullaballoo on the "Right" was a carnival of grift, those people knew about the role of the legislatures - and that of courts.
If only it were that simple - election irregularities. I see that several of these battleground states have revised their laws to prevent some conduct. We shall see if effective. A debate about all the avenues used in the cheating is beyond this comments section and I'm not organized enough to put it together. Following several telegraph channels resulted in groups of well meaning people in internal battles over evidence. But an extraordinary number of undervoted ballots (vote only for Joe and nobody else) suggests an effort to check a box took some time. Statistically quite different than ever seen before. Actual fraud requires for a leak to happen someday.
But the Republicans were caught flat footed. The Time article https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign deals with election changes using force of law and courts. Little opposition to them. Imagine how much money they required. Then Zuck's bucks ~ $400M to 'get out the vote' funded a lot of stuff. Not a peep from the R's.
And the feckless R's refuse to work the injustices on the J6 defendants nor oppose the often heavy sentencing for those convicted.
The conflicts of interest in the NIH are awful. They favor high priced drugs developed via US joint patents because their budgets go higher and researchers get a share. Perhaps these revenues should go into the general fund.