I can’t believe there’s no countermove to the USPS electoral sabotage

This is the most depressing thing on my mental radar right now. Feels like I’m back at square one given I grew up in an Indian state (Bihar) where elections were a joke, “booth capturing” by gangsters was rampant, and mafia orgs of various sorts determined who go elected.

Americans don’t realize just how real the possibility of collapse of the electoral apparatus is. This is what it looks like. It’s not science fiction. Far too many of us from “democracies” have lived this shit that’s coming to the US now.

At least things like gerrymandering and the electoral college have a veneer of procedural legitimacy to them. You may not like those things but at least they’re part of a legal scheme you can consent to. This is a kind of next level lawlessness taking root.

I no longer trust native-born Americans’ sense of what’s going on. Exceptionalism is too deeply ingrained in your psyches for you to recognize how *not* unprecedented this is.

You think you’re headed for an impossible state and surely something will stop it. The rest of the world sees reversion to the global historical mean

This might be the least exceptional chapter in American history.

The only thing exceptional about American politics is really the patronizing contempt Americans being to the idea of recognizing non-American histories as meaningful precedents to learn from and act on. It’s a political version of NIH syndrome. Not Invented Here.