NEW YORK—The Trump administration and its radical right foot-soldiers in the federal government and in the states are undertaking a comprehensive scheme to undermine future state and federal elections, in effect rigging the rolls to keep themselves in power no matter what the voters decide.
The problem is so much worse than voting. The last two election cycles showed the highest turnout of voters and young voters in recorded American history.
The problem was not that nobody voted, the problem was the voters had no idea what was going on or who to vote for because all our collective brains have scrolled right out our ears and people have atomized perspectives and don’t interact with each other anymore, allowing our nation to curdle, to fester into a million little sub-groups where you face no challenges, no backlash, no accountability and your every delusion will have a fanbase.
We did all this while POURING money into the industrial complexes that only seek to sell you marginally better products that fall apart of become obsolete within a few years, powering the corporations that own our politicians.
The average median voter has no idea what’s real or not, has no interest in policy, has no idea how policy even works or what our branches of government are, and has been scrolling for so long that they don’t know how to be alone with their own thoughts. That’s why Trump and his ilk are shredding the country apart right now. We didn’t fight the idiots hard enough because we weren’t social and involved enough to make them feel shame. We could have used shame as our mightiest weapon because they are radically insecure and scared of being shamed, but apparently our side was equally scared, so the dumb billionaires with too much wealth to even feel shame won out in the end.