Put another way, it ought to be obvious by now that it does not matter who wins these elections because we always lose. That is to say, run-of-the-mill Americans who would like the federal government to act at least vaguely in their interests – as opposed to the interests of corporations, big money donors and Israel.

Many of these run-of-the-mill Americans believed (for the last time, probably) that the 2024 election of Trump would result in a change for the better; that is to say, a change that would benefit them. To say it hasn't is an understatement on par with saying Stage 5 pancreatic cancer really isn't so bad.

There are still a few run-of-the-mill Americans who remain fixated on the corruption of the 2020 election, who remain mired in the tragic belief that if only the election had been above-board all would be well. Put another way, they remain mired in the tragic belief that the centralized leviathan state isn't irremediably and inherently corrupt. They do not grasp that it exists not to protect rights but to grant (and withhold) concessions. That is to say, to dispense patronage. To take from A to line the pockets of B. It is the mechanism of the political means – as Albert Jay Nock explained in his book, Our Enemy the State – that is at odds with the economic means. The latter being the generation of wealth by individuals producing things of value freely exchanged. As opposed to the coercive, redistributionist, favor/patronage granting wheedling of the state, which pits every man against every other man in a hyena pack-like feeding frenzy to get theirs (at someone else's expense) or (at best) to try to protect theirs from the hyenas.

Elections merely determine which faction will control the political means – the power of the state. It is thus inevitable – whenever greed is rewarded – that the greediest people will be the ones that are on the ballot. Worse than that, actually – because merely being greedy isn't necessarily evil. It does become evil when that greed is paired with force. When a greedy aspirer to office is financed by greedy people who finance the aspirant because they expect him (or her, nowadays) to reward them if elected. There is no money in not taking any, is there? Without money, it is nigh impossible to aspire to office. Ipso facto, you end up with aspirants who take money. Put in honest language, aspirants who are bought and paid for. Getting elected to Congress transforms the aspirant into a millionaire. The onetime barrista AOC is now a very wealthy woman. So also the turban wearing Congresswoman from Mogadishu. What is their source of their sudden wealth? Did they create it? Or did power confer it?