Nice guys (and gals) finish last. In the system where everything is about winning, then rules fly out the window... When coming in second is irrelevant then a dissenting opinion is also irrelevant. This is what happens when your so-called democracy is based on a two-party system and not having to negotiate a volatile coalition that could crash at any time as how it is in real democracies. It does not matter if you lie through your teeth ALL THE TIME... What matters is that you present strength. Honesty be damned.

Science denialism is alive and well in every field imaginable - I blame religion. Convince me I'm wrong.

Your electorate has become less and less educated in the past 40 years and even though they have the internet at their fingertips to seek out actual truth, they are too clueless to sort out fact from fiction or are to tired to even bother that. And this is despite dragging more and more people through colleges that they can't pay for and somehow a lot still come out without having learned enough to see through all the BS spouted from the media and still believing the latest idiocy from So-Me - none mentioned, because they are ALL culpable .

I talk shit here about reasons for your predicament, but do not get me even more wrong - I am pissed that it has come to this end result where you have elected this #¤%¤"#, I hate that I now see before me 10 ways that the world can go REALLY to shit. It might have done that with Harris as well, but from my point of view the odds now have changed for the worse in a big way - sigh.