Even the worst governments require at least some degree of popular support and respond one way or another when they don’t get it. That’s bad news if you consider engagement with the electoral system the only way out, but it’s not. That’s a fact, no matter how much we ignore it.

We don’t tend to talk about it much because of the assumption that the US system is universal, desirable, unchanged, and unchangeable, but there are copious examples of this process in action historically, regionally, and in other countries both today and in the past.

Takes like this always get a lot of juice but it’s just not true. Broad lack of support for any candidate, party, or system of government is a marker that people think of it as illegitimate, and lack of legitimacy is a huge sign of vulnerability.

Has the course of American politics for the last 25 years led you to believe that this approach is working?

LIBERALS: Listen to leaders of color LEADERS OF COLOR: /comprise 100% of US congresspeople opposing arms sales to Israel LIBERALS: Do not listen to these people

Yeah, man, that's it exactly. And then we get these "Well FL/AK get what they deserve for electing Republicans", who the fuck are the alternatives? Hochul? Newsom? Shapiro?

I keep hoping someone will explain how the vote-blue-no-matter-who strategy aligns with the fact that blue-state governors are among the worst in the country but I guess they're too busy not caring about Palestine

Good ol' ultra-liberal California, where reliable Democratic rule has turned the whole state into a commie hippie paradise

California wants to lead on AI regulation, just not right now

You ever read Hourani's A HISTORY OF THE ARAB PEOPLES?

Well well well if it isn't a certain economic system exploiting children for the pleasure of the bourgeois and ensuring its market expansion by helping morally savage hustlers be rid of a population they might otherwise have to pay to support

Western nations were desperate for Korean babies. Now many adoptees believe they were stolen

Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.