Comment by foobar1000 on 16/08/2020 at 18:51 UTC

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View submission: 'Trump warns presidential election result may not be known for 'years,' as allegations grow he's undermining the USPS to rig the election

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Laws only matter if the people in charge care to enforce them. Otherwise they're just words on a piece of paper.

Republicans obviously aren't going to hold Trump to account, they're all complicit. Considering the Democrats didn't even attempt to enforce a single House subpoena, I don't except much tangible opposition from them beyond brow furrowing and media stunts although I would love to be proven wrong.

No one in power is going to save Democracy for us. In the end I think it's likely going to come down to sustained protests in the street like we see in Belarus.

Edit: As for why I don't have faith in our elected officials to protect us. Some Dem political operatives recently "war gamed" scenarios of Trump refusing to leave office and some of their proposed "fixes" were beyond pathetic. One proposed "fix" was that if Trump refuses to leave office then Biden should compromise by appointing a bunch of Republicans to his cabinet to appease Trump. You can find a link to the full report here: https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2020/08/04/transition-integrity-project-preventing-a-disrupted-presidential-election-and-transition/

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