And yet, our republic still stands!

Funny, isn't it? That's very similar to what we have been saying again and again when we heard from the USA that this or the other european country is close to collapse because of <insert reason>.

Well out here in Arizona, it looks like business as usual. People are grocery shopping, I went to work at a nursing home the next day and it was just routine, and NFL games are playing this weekend.

America will continue on with Biden and Harris for the next four or eight years, and then whoever on 2024 or 2028, etc.

Things have been better but i am hanging in there.

i think.

Seems groovy, like, whatever those people wanna do with themselves. Hoping that the dems actually get things done beyond reestablishing some bird sanctuaries...

So far so good! Debating stocking up on basic food supplies just in case but I imagine I don't need it hopefully...

Politicians be crooks. What a surprise.

RNC needs to stop terrorizing its own voting pool. They're simple enough to actually trick into turning rabid against reality and its disgusting to watch them become weaponized.

DNC needs to stop converting its strategy over to the same playbook.

Both parties need to be dissolved and we need vote reform away from electoral college. No state should have more weight to its population's votes than another. Every voter should have an equal vote and every voter in every state should have equal voting access and rights through voting by mail or otherwise. Ranked choice voting should be implemented at federal level (and state/local levels) in order to remove the need for party primaries so that political parties can't `remove` candidates before the vote against the will of the voters and so that everybody can run regardless of political party affiliation. We need to remove power from political parties in order to remove lobbying power from corporate interests.

If we do not get some significant vote reform, we're not going to last much longer.

Amazingly, it isn't slowing me down as much as I thought it would.

Along with a few other things it has broken me