Major-Tom wrote:Vapormancer wrote:
Sure but how much better would it have been if we had a decisive result on November 3rd? This was unlike any election we ever had. It only fed into that narrative. It is clearly the incompetence and usual "quality" from the local government types but one would think they could be asked to work a bit longer and a bit harder to get things done. I'm getting calls from overseas laughing at our inability to do anything right. Good luck spreading democracy when our system generates perceived illegitimacy through incompetence! Hilarious really. Yet another own goal.
We didn't have the voting infrastructure to properly deal with the surge of ballots, particularly early and mail-in ballots. States that had very specific rules on how to count those only fed into the narrative more, the GOP by telling people to not vote by mail did so as well.
So...yeah, of course we're incompetent and terrible at exporting our broken democracy. But this was a victory nonetheless. I feel like you're in agreement with people here but are still lambasting something, and I can't understand what.
I'm lambasting the fact that you've won a paper victory, destroyed the legitimacy of our institutions through incompetence and now will deal with the reckoning of having lost the local elections. The House vs Presidency gap was huge. Both parties nearly tied its vote. Not to mention, the inability of local government properly execute elections means in a portion of those 69 million plus at last check, they can't be trusted. We are dissolving with rapid and with heady joy, the built up reserves of institution trust because we can't ask people to do their duty. It is quite clear what I am attacking. Our system is killing itself very rapidly.
