But what's to stop this whole saga unfolding again in four years' time? We've seen an extreme hard right individual like Trump soar from irrelevancy to having a real shot at power, and that's been under a (more or less) well received President over the last eight years. What happens when you've had a President who's been attacked for four years by the people who championed her election; what kind of political climate does that create, and how much more easily would that be exploited by someone like Trump?
I understand that right now it's the only option remaining, but man, it seems to me like building a short-term future on some very shaky long-term ground.
It is, but when that's what you have, that's what you build on. Again, no one here wants this, but this is the shitty system we have, and while the people like to complain, very few are willing to do the boring, hard work necessary to try and actually make it better, because it's easier to play sports teams every four years and then go back to ignoring politics the rest of the time.
You aren't going to get any disagreement from me that the situation is utterly fucked. I could type all night and not detail all of the ways in which it's fucked, from non proportional vote assignation to artificial barriers to voting access to artificial barriers for non major parties to money in politics, etc., etc., ad infinitum. And all of that stuff needs work and the persistence of generations to change.
But on Nov. 8th, we're going to pick a new President with the shitty system we have in place, so focusing on fixing it is putting the cart before the horse, because the result of this election is going to fundamentally change the political landscape, regardless of who wins. The winner is going to appoint enough Supreme Court justices to alter the slant of the court in any direction they choose, which has long lasting ramifications for our society.
(Looks down and notices he has wandered entirely off topic...sorry
