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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:34:55 -0800
‘‘This is an extraordinarily powerful tool if all you want to do is simply
discredit democracy,’’ [Douglas W.] Jones says. ‘‘All you have to do is
create the appearance of something having happened, even if it hasn't
happened.’’
If the risk is that of discrediting democracy, our electoral system in and of itself serves that function already. As far as I can tell, that's what US elections are designed to do: create the appearance of something having happened, such as systemic or institutional change, even when nothing has happened and the same big corporations are still financing both parties to continue the same political agenda as before.