It's a CON, Jake!

We have the ILLUSION of fair and open elections.

Not the reality.

This post at the Gates of Vienna says what I've been saying.

By the time I woke up this morning, the great Republican tsunami had turned into a little ripple in the bathtub.

The exception, of course, was Florida. But that was a planned exception.

Florida is allowed to be a dissident state, because Ron DeSantis is being set up by the power brokers in the Republican machine to be the alternative to Donald Trump in 2024, in order to make sure that the MAGA movement is effectively gelded. It’s a similar process to what was done to the Tea Party ten or twelve years ago.

It’s important to remember that the modern Republican Party, backed by Wall Street and global Capital, is not designed to be an alternative to Democrat rule. It’s intended to complement it, to provide voters with the illusion that they have a choice, and thus siphon off the votes of people who might otherwise coalesce into a force for true dissent.

It's a con. And we are the rubes on the fairgrounds. 

The Left has decided that they don't want to take a chance leaving in their escape pods to a foreign country. Too great a chance of falling victim to Ruthless 3rd World Bandits in Charge (see this story on Chinese billionaires taken out by their own government to understand).

Instead, Florida has been prepared as a place for the wealthy/influential/connected to land, after the rest of America has been turned into a hellhole. It will have all the comforts of a tropical paradise, with the addition of a fair judicial system, and protections the Entitled Elite need from the political hacks they installed.