>Well, welcome to life in a democracy. If there has ever been a time to illustrate that our country is an oligarchy and not a Democracy, this has been the year

>Well, welcome to life in a democracy. If there has ever been a time to illustrate that our country is an oligarchy and not a Democracy, this has been the year. There is a non-zero chance that even in our rigged, broken system that the candidates that are recognized in one or both parties will be ones that received less voter support and were chosen by the wealthy. >We have to be prepared to fight the crypto wars forever, like unions are still fighting the labor wars a century later. Just like the war against CISPA, which was lost to attrition. >We could revoke the 13th and 14th Amendments and have slavery again--there is no legal impediment to that What does the Constitution matter at all? Our system of checks and balances is beyond broken - its gone. Not to be disrespectful, but anyone who thinks that the Constitution is recognized by the government is delusional or worse. The 1st, 4th, 6th, and 9th amendments have been rendered basically moot by recent government action and court inaction. The truth is that you can't have a functioning democracy without the informed consent of the governed. When the majority of the population lacks the capacity to generate informed consent and those in power work actively to suppress that capacity you end up with the authoritarian oligarchy that we have today.