@jiminnh.bsky.social: Ok, sure. But it's July and one of the choices people do have is whether there will ever be another election. That's not a partisan perspective, it's the truth.

I think it might be time to revisit this 2016 @vox.com classic from @volts.wtf to remind ourselves why this freakout is happening: The entire US political system is premised, at the atomic & subatomic level, upon 2 equally choiceworthy sides. It can't allow a clear choice, & so will *make* it even

I forget who posted it (maybe it was you, even, lol, and I paraphrase) but I can't get past the "Biden has one bad debate and no other missteps since, Trump the felon says something batshit crazy every day and the media is still on the bad debate guy"

Why the media will lift Trump up and tear Clinton downwww.vox.com Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...

The core issue is here: the 2024 election, like 2016 and 2020, isn't a real choice. The elite political system failed in its filtering function and generated one unacceptable option, out of only two. Everyone understands this, but about half of them have invincible partisan reason to deny it.

Ok, sure. But it's July and one of the choices people do have is whether there will ever be another election. That's not a partisan perspective, it's the truth.

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