They keep telling us to believe in the system. And just to wait for the coming election(s).

I remember Bill Maher predicting that Donald Trump wasn’t going to leave the White House if he lost in 2020. One after another Democratic bigwig smiled and laughed and then schooled Maher that the system would hold. OH YEAH?

What we’ve got is Democratic elected officials and TV talking heads going on about the horse race(s)… It’s endless, it’s the underlying theme of all their speech. But what if someone changes the rules of the game?

That is what the Republicans have done with redistricting. Normally executed every ten years after the census, Donald Trump pushed for a redrawing now, ergo the changes in Texas.

And yes, California fought back.

And ultimately Virginia. But Virginia’s new maps were just thrown out by the courts.

And before that Ron DeSantis had his “people” redraw the maps of Florida without the public’s participation. That’s what’s been happening, except in very rare cases, a governor and state Congress have acted without a vote of the people. And you thought your vote counted, what a laugh… Hell, my vote in California hasn’t counted since I moved here half a century ago, because of the electoral college.

Well, that ain’t ever gonna change. There can be no adjustments to the Constitution, the bar is too high.

So…

What’s a poor boy to do?

Certainly not play in a rock and roll band. Rock is dead and rap…Blacks have been screwed from time immemorial. Now by the evisceration of the Vorting Rights Act. And while some rappers still delineate their dissatisfaction with the system, the goal really is to use the system, manipulate the system, for riches. They’re trying to beat the man at his own game, which is money. And good for them, but how many successful rappers are there?

Now let’s be clear, many people have completely checked out of the system. Or voted for it and found afterward they were negatively affected, but at least they kept the left wing woke/elite from benefiting!

The Republicans have not only won the redistricting wars, they’ve completely redefined public perception. They’ve played a long game, for decades, just like with the Federalist Society. People laughed at some of their pronouncements, but now it’s collective wisdom that the Democratic party is run by the woke…a word whose definition has been twisted to serve the right’s purpose. But it gets even worse, Antifa is lurking around every corner and whenever lefties get together to protest, they’re paid to do so. That true Americans aren’t doing this, that true America is in danger of disappearing, that’s what the MAGA movement is all about. And the left laughs as it loses constituents and power…meanwhile, being moribund in D.C. and afraid to take a stand for fear of alienating some protentional minority group. Oftentimes in battles that the right has created. Like trans women in college sports. First and foremost, there just aren’t many. But the right has ginned up this controversy and the left is paralyzed, because it cannot be on the wrong side of this for fear of offending the trans constituency and…where’s it going to go? A disaffected right wing influencer just revealed that her former compatriots get their marching orders from Trump’s posse and are paid to post. Yup, all those social media posts supporting the Ballroom after the gunman at the Correspondents’ Dinner was masterminded by the Trump people themselves, they’re organized. The Democrats? They tell us their hearts and minds are in the right place and it’s not necessary to employ these techniques.

Oh YEAH?

So people keep asking me who is going to be the Democratic candidate in 2028.

But it’s even worse, the Democratic Party and the commentariat keep telling us to wait until the election, for change.

Oh YEAH?

I watched  the Capitol riot on January 6th with my own eyes. You saw people wreak havoc in the building. It has come out that elected officials feared for their lives. But not only are they patriots, those who were convicted were set free. Good luck getting set free the next time you break the law or try to subvert the election process.

And it’s all being done in plain sight.

Used to be it was done behind closed doors. We found out years later about the machinations in smoke-filled rooms. Now we’ve got Orban conceding an election when Trump never has.

A free and fair election?

The Democrats were supposed to take over the House. Now it’s going to be much harder to do.

As for 2028…

It’s very easy.  And simple. The problem is illegal voting. Yup, all the immigrants showing up to vote, you know, the same immigrants afraid to go to a Bad Bunny show for fear of being arrested by ICE. These people are gonna show up to vote? Yeah, right!

And mail-in voting is ripe for fraud.

There’s so much fraud in the system.

The only problem is no one can find it, but it’s there I tell you!

So, the strategy is not only to make it harder to vote, but to strike people from the voter rolls. They’ve been doing this for multiple cycles now. Getting rid of Democratic voters. Hell, they want complete control of the voter rolls. To ensure that the table is tilted and they maintain power.

And never forget Johnson’s refusal to seat a duly elected Democratic representative for weeks and weeks.

And then there’s Mitch McConnell… Who refused to allow Obama to nominate a Supreme Court justice, but squeaked in a right wing one just before Trump left office. And now the 6-3 right wing majority, whose members are there for life, have said that the president is basically immune and there is no racism in America and…

Never mind judges further down the food chain.

In other words, if you expect the justice system to save you… The same one which keeps ruling against Trump’s tariffs as he continues to institute them?

You’re on your own, baby.

But those with all the power, and oftentimes the money, keep telling you to believe. The same people telling you that if Live Nation and Ticketmaster are split up then ticket prices will go down. They’re selling falsehoods to make you feel good when change is not imminent, not change that will benefit you.

It goes on and on, with low corporate taxes, tax cuts that benefit the rich much more than everybody else and the carried interest rule for ultra-wealthy hedge fund managers.

And we’re told to vote.

George Carlin had it right, and his wisdom is has been repeated ad infinitum online, if you think the rulers are of this country are going to cede control…

Yup, we’re getting wisdom from a comedian.

Which is one reason comedy is now burgeoning. Are you expecting the truth from Sabrina Carpenter and her imitators? They’re commercial products build by committee made to satiate a somnambulant public. Meanwhile… It’s those making the jokes who are telling the truth, to the point where Trump refused to have a comedian at the aforementioned Correspondents’ Dinner. There was supposed to be a mentalist instead.

So either you’re defeated and disconnected or you’ve been duped into believing everything is hunky-dory. Meanwhile, they’re stealing the country and getting rich in the process.

The power is with the people.

But not at the ballot box.

It couldn’t be clearer.