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The ballot box didn't fail. People decided they wanted this by either voting Republican or not at all.
When the ballot box fails to prevent fascists from getting elected, the ballot box has failed.
Edit: Because it's the Four Boxes of Liberty, not the Four Boxes of Whatever People Vote For.
So, you propose to enforce liberty by not letting us choose our own leaders? Democracy, as long as your approve our choices?
If your idea of liberty is unidentified armed masked government agents snatching up people and rendering them to foreign prisons, you might be a fascist.
That's not my idea of liberty at all. But you can't say the ballot box failed, just because the people elected the worst president in the history of people in suits.
Then the ballot box - the second box of liberty - has failed.
I get what you're saying, but the "four boxes of liberty" are about freedom. People were free to talk about how bad Trump would be, and they did. The 2024 election was free and fair (until we have proof it wasn't). Federal courts have struck down many things the Trump administration has attempted. Liberty isn't inevitable, it has to be fought for. As a country "We the People" failed, not our institutions.
That's the fourth box.
If you ignore all the voter suppression and most likely election fraud by the election deniers who ran the counts, sure.
Yes, roughly half of the voting population voted for him. I have strong doubts that he or the overwhelming number of Republicans in other races won fairly.
The problem I have with this voter fraud allegations is his numbers have stayed pretty consistent across the three elections. The Democrats showed up in 2020 but didn't bother for 2024.
At least there's no genocide anymore! /s
I agree with you that there was voter suppression and gerrymandering but in no way were those insurmountable. We chose all this chaos and lawlessness.
If "Did Not Vote" was a candidate: