Rich Whiteley
@richwhiteley.bsky.social
Musician, producer, songwriter, bandleader, guitars, vocals, etc. https://linktr.ee/richwhiteley
Reposted by Rich Whiteley
We already don’t really have fully competitive elections, bc the VRA’s been gutted, voter suppression/suffrage restriction is rampant, etc. After the last 4 weeks, if you don’t think the rules will be rigged further by the far right authoritarian party & the 9 Wizards in Robes b/w now & 2026/8, 🤷♂️
The problem with that is we've had such systematic voter suppression & inequality in access to suffrage for so long that we were only really a democracy from 1965-2013. So when you add in the abuses of power/loyalists/etc., we're deteriorating from an already not-fully-democratic baseline.
The harder part is convincing people that in the US their democracy has been mostly dead for its entire history (h/t: @cwolbrecht.bsky.social)
March 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
We already don’t really have fully competitive elections, bc the VRA’s been gutted, voter suppression/suffrage restriction is rampant, etc. After the last 4 weeks, if you don’t think the rules will be rigged further by the far right authoritarian party & the 9 Wizards in Robes b/w now & 2026/8, 🤷♂️