Everything over the last four years was about whether the people have the right to change the government at the ballot box. The government has ruled that no, we do not.

First was the question of whether the government has the power to reject a legitimately elected executive. The government, for the most part, demonstrated that it is independent of both the President and the Congress.

Despite the President having, on paper, the title of Commander in Chief, the Armed Forces simply disobeyed his order to cease an invasion of Syria (a nation against which we have not declared war), and there will be no consequences.

Federal law enforcement, which on paper answer to the President, fabricated evidence to frame him as a Russian spy, lied in court about it, and committed numerous other crimes in the course of their unlawful investigation.

Then, the Justice Department investigated itself, and determined nobody responsible will suffer any penalty, thus demonstrating that the FBI and CIA are in fact independent, unelected government branches.

When the President exercised his power as chief diplomat to investigate a matter of corruption, members of the government ostensibly under his authority worked with Congress to have him impeached. These agents suffered no consequences, proving they, too, are safe from the people.

Now we have attempted to have an election, and several states have egregiously ignored the Constitution, openly enabled fraud, and once again, the government has declared that nobody may seek redress, and there is no valid relief that can be given.

States, it seems, have the right to hold shame elections, this right is protected by the government, and the government is independent of any elected oversight.

In short, the people no longer have effective means of redress with the government at the ballot box. The government may reject the President, commit crimes against him, and, in the end, simply dispense with free & fair elections themselves when and if it feels it necessary.

People are worried the President might cause a constitutional crisis. We've been in a constitutional crisis since 2016, when the FBI declared it has veto power over elections via the means of framing innocent men for treason.

This crisis escalated every time a lower court declared that the President lacks the power to exercise is his statutory authority, whether it be in military recruitment, border control, or immigration policy.

We have been focused on how the government ignores this or that article in the Bill of Rights, but the truth is that, at this point, the Constitution is now a dead letter. It does not bind the government or protect the rights of the people.

The government, in 2020, consists primarily of the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, and perhaps a few others. This government has no written constitution, no elections, and total independence from its titular head. It is best to accept that this simply what the government is.

Perhaps the great genius of the American government is that it commits its crimes openly, and uses our fake electoral politics to ensure half the country can always be marshalled to celebrate them and accuse the other half of treason.

In the 2000s, the government used the Republican Party to get half the country to celebrate its illegal wars. In the 2010s, it uses the Democratic Party to get the other half of the country to celebrate its Russia frame-up and Chinese bribes.

Your party doesn't exist to advance policy; it exists to generate political consensus to enable the government's crimes.

The only thing the government has learned from the Presidency of Donald Trump is that the people still have too much power. There are still vulnerable points where someone who intends to govern on behalf of the people might slip through.

During the next four years, the priority of the government will be on stripping more power from the Presidency, and ensuring that the chance of the wrong person making it through the Republican primaries is zero. They didn't *want* to cheat this big, but we forced them to.

In a few years, when it's Nikki Haley running against Gavin Newsom, they won't have to cheat. They'd much prefer to rig the primaries than the general. When you rig the primary, you can just accuse the "Paulbots" and "Bernie bros" of sour grapes.

I should have been more clear: the Constitution isn't a dead letter because the government ignores it. The Constitution is a dead letter because the government is not actually constituted by it.

Find the FBI in the Constitution, go ahead.

Remember Bush v Gore? That wasn't about who was going to run the government. That was about which of the government's sons was going to get first dibs on the inheritance. We were going to invade Iraq either way.

I remember "owning" libs at the time by pointing out the Clinton admin had been weighing an Iraq invasion for years, and the Bush invasion was based on Clinton era intel. I was too naive at the time to realize what I was really seeing.

The government decided in about 1998 that we were going to invade Iraq. The only question was which party's graft machine would harvest the profits. Elections are a question of who gets the bribes, not what the bribes do, and they've been this way for 30 years or more.