The quicker you let go of any notion of how the system has worked in this country, the quicker we can start to work on what we should do about it.
Democracy is not dying. It’s dead.
We are not on the verge of a constitutional crisis, we are in the aftermath of one.
If you still think there will be national elections that will be honored, those now in power have already shown you the plan. You saw it on TV. They will cite massive fraud, refuse to certify, refuse to leave. There will be no one to stop them this time.
If you think the legal system will stop them, they’ve already shown you they have no plans to comply. Even rulings not in their favor from the Supreme Court require their voluntary compliance, and they’ve shown you they believe they are above them.
In fact, for every “They can’t do that!” you could conceive, they’ve already shown that they can and they will. You need to drop that line of thinking because that reality no longer exists.
As I’ve said before, everything that we call society is nothing but a series of agreements.
They no longer agree, thus society as we knew it does not exist.
Only when we begin to accept this reality, as a society, as a culture, as individuals part of a whole, can we then take the next step and ask the difficult question of what can be done about it.