The events of the recent USA administration fall into 2 basic categories. #1 Information overload. With the Tsunami of strange, weird, unsettling and scary actions taken by the new administration the news media, other politicians and the general public are overwhelmed by crazy and can not seem to decide which action to tackle first, so they are caught in stasis. That way the administration keeps doing whatever they want.
#2 Bitter pill syndrome, the administration is doing all the DIRTY crap as quickly as possible so they will have time to snow the average voters to forget all this crap by the next time the voters get to cast their ballot. They will give the voters back a few pittance in time to buy their votes again. While the fat cats have feathered their nests so well, they don’t really care if they win or not. They will have mucked up the USA government so badly that if they lose the election they can blame the other party for EVERYTHING.
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Re: #2
That was exactly how the dictatorship in Paraguay was able to win the elections with way over 75% of the votes cast for over three decades. And to a certain extent is how the party of the dictator has been able to win the presidency for all but one terms since the dictator was ousted way back in 1989.
Election campaigns in Paraguay are strictly limited in time: The primaries are held about 60-90 days before the general election. There registered party members elect the candidate for their party for each race by a simple majority of votes cast. And the primary campaign is limited to no more than about 90 days, if my memory is correct.
So as the election dates gets closer the leading candidates will go out to the native settlements and peasant communities with free food and/or big community barbecues instructing these communities to vote for their color or list number. The trick is to be the last candidate or party to distribute free food before the election. But you also have to be early enough to gain the good-will of those people living near the poverty line. Then on election day the parties will also try to buy votes by providing free transport shuttles from the communities to the polling station and back and instruct the passenger along the way on how to mark their ballots.
So the party with the biggest treasury is able to “buy” the votes and win the election.