re: #102 Justanotherhuman

I tend to get very nervous when elections are approaching, because—without going into detail about our situation—GOP control of congress and the WH would mean absolute ruin for my girlfriend and me.

Here’s what I console myself with: They have really won—numerically—only one out of the last six elections, and that one was pretty narrow. That one victory was an incumbent, wartime president, against an opponent most people affected to find unexciting. And this 1 in 6 record is choosing the least frightening candidates they could come up with. This time will either be more of the same, or a real nutbar.

I just don’t think they can find a candidate any more who can win in an honest election. They can gerrymander the hell out of state houses and congress, but to win the White House is going to take voter suppression on a massive scale—which of course they’re doing. Will it be enough? Maybe. That’s why I get nervous.