Thankfully, we are now less than a week away from Election Day, which here in the Prozac Nation ranks with the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, and other of our Trash Culture's iconic collective rituals. Even Gulf War 3.0 has been postponed (at least on our end) until this farce is over with.
We're not thankful because we believe that the 'elections' actually will change anything: we're thankful that all of this media-driven spectacle finally will be over and done with. These dramatic races have left their sleazy mudslinging and attack-ad phases and gone into the stage where both sides of the Uniparty are already preemptively (and hypocritically) accusing each other of voter fraud. Despite all of the polling and trolling, the Party bosses must not have quite as much faith in the outcome as they pretend; because they're already working on the 'Stolen Election' narratives.
This isn't to argue, of course, that American 'elections' aren't stolen or rigged: it's simply that the people doing the stealing and rigging are the ones who own both Parties. The Post-Election patterns are familiar. One side is allowed to present significant evidence of cheating; the other dismisses it; nobody looks into any of it too closely---the objective here being to keep the little people occupied fighting among themselves while the Uniparty goes on doing the bidding of their Commercial and Financial Overlords.
There are two other phenomena that appear during these spectacles, usually during the Midterm Elections. The first are phony 'alternative' movements led by allegedly dissenting pundits or politicians. The only purpose such people really serve is to give the illusion that there is a genuine Populist sentiment still vibrant in America, and that 'our Democracy' still functions. All of their plans typically are pie-in-the-sky programs or simplistic initiatives disguised as Common-Sense solutions. Invariably, these are all 'growing movements' setting a course to be achieved at some unspecified date in the future. Meanwhile, they tell us, stay the course until their plans mature and reform the political process from within. Also just as typically, these movements never survive more than one or two election cycles and they fade into history rather quickly.
The other phenomenon is one which has been happening regularly during the last three or so decades: the general belief that Elections will be suspended and Martial Law declared. This is actually a genuine possibility---one that we've been building up to for some time. The rhetoric about it has been escalating nearly every electoral cycle and we saw serious proposals about it (mostly coming from the Democrats) during the Scamdemic. The Democrats then deflected attention from themselves---suddenly scrapping all of their 'Russiagate' nonsense and Media documentaries about the ease with which voting machines could be hacked---and proceeded to frame a protest as an attempted 'insurrection' founded on the baseless allegations that elections could be stolen. The current Administration with its sheer lack of transparency and its Surveillance State arsenal propped up by the Tech Oligarchy and the bands of armed fanatics and detention camps they've created easily could declare Martial Law and make it stick.
That the Americans would roll over and go along with Martial Law was proven during the Scamdemic. Whether it will happen this year or not remains to be seen: but it will happen eventually. It will happen when the Oligarchs decide that maintaining this carnival of Managed Democracy is no longer cost-effective and when they are confident that the Ameroboobs will pose no more than a token resistance to them grabbing absolute power.
When we look at the state of our culture today, combined with the well-documented ease with which the Elites have imposed some of the most stupid and transparent shams on the public to the expense of both our civil liberties and our national character, it's difficult to argue that we haven't reached that stage already. The Elites may allow the Democrats to regain Congress---which is emasculated and deeply compromised anyway---so that when the time comes to seize power both parties will get a piece of the pie. Or they may pull the pin this year and throw the Controlled Opposition under the bus as expendable now that they've served their purpose. There are other possible scenarios, but one way or another, they'll do it at some point.



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