Voting - First-pass-the-post fails mathematically once two majority parties come to power, no third party can win, and if both parties are subverted (into one h

Voting - First-pass-the-post fails mathematically once two majority parties come to power, no third party can win, and if both parties are subverted (into one hidden party with a hidden agenda) democracy then fails. We are seeing a perfect example of this with regards to Harris/Trump. Trump closely aligns with Fascism, Harris policies closely align with Marxism/Communism. You only have a choice between the two, is that even a choice? Protest - Has always relied on the inherent threat of violence and leaders being responsive to the groups involved. It has been shown in the last 20 years that the threat of violence no longer works, and leaders have learned to be no longer responsive at all once they have been elected so long as they don't commit any crimes or scandals that would force removal of them from their positions. Additionally, when protests occur, surveillance of any protest guarantees government retaliation moving forward for all individuals involved. Surveillance is never by itself, there is always government harassment associated with it that are often impossible to prove. Any protester has likely seen the telltale signs of this, and it never ends. (i.e. mail goes missing, both sending and receiving, communications/cell phone calls become unreliable in ways ou can't know a message was sent, internet services may throw weird errors on a continual basis, email/submissions dropped silently (i.e. job applications/resumes, or other high importance items like taxes). Crime/sabotage will increase as its one of the only viable response mechanisms, actual violence too because of the increased cost imposed through broad surveillance efforts. Protesting is protected under the law, but we don't really have a sound rule of law right now since surveillance allows attacks on individuals without attribution. Journalism - not viable because state run media under the trusted news initiative can outspend and crush competition, and they violate journalistic practices (i.e. they don't distinguish or separate opinion/facts/must-runs from head office in their news broadcasts). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo All this means is that the systems and society will slowly erode and fail, and wise people are preparing now because when order fails so does food production. In a grid down situation you need food, trusted people, and guns (to protect from the food being stolen). Since you are into SRE/DevOps you are very familiar with cascade failures, and resiliency design as am I. If you have not read Mises, you might enjoy his works on socialism (written in the 1930s) as a structural analysis of how centralized systems involving people fail. While it is an intractable problem at this point, it isn't hopeless, because it is not the end, but rather a new beginning. There will be dark times ahead, but being forewarned is being forearmed.