Not every race, not every politician -- but every component of the system is sufficiently rotten.
There's no system of checks and balances anymore.
Even if there was a miraculous massive awakening, such that the only leftiest left would be politicians, MSM, big tech, and like 10-30M of the general population, their candidates will still come out on top.

And it'll be something like Obama vs. Romney from now on.
An illusion of choice.

Nothing's stopping deepstate Biden from taking it down. It's gonna be hard, but it means even more money to his cronies.

I see you.

Fair points, thank you.
Slow grassroots growth of this movement is probably the only option, given that there will not be another fair election if this bullshit stands.

Same here.

What is it that we need to do? Honest question.

This is beyond troubling. Do you have a source? Is this a formal standard now? Is so, which level (federal, state, etc.)?

Also, consider GEOTUS' videos:

1. https://youtu.be/6a1Mdq8-_wo
   7.4K likes vs. 510 dislikes
2. https://youtu.be/vjE1ZGtAGck 10k likes vs. 356 dislikes

So no, the ratio of likes to dislikes on YouTube (at least, for popular videos) demonstrates the real sentiment -- vox populi, if you will.

No. Russian YouTube has been fucking up Russian opposition to Putin for years: removing likes, views, demonetization, strikes, and outright bans.
See anything familiar?
It got so bad, a prominent Russian videoblogger kamikadzedead made a video address to the head office of YouTube 3 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNbJIsQ8OcI

He does not.
Here's my detailed response that references official Russian data (important bits are in English):
https://thedonald.win/p/11R4XB6ei8/x/c/4DqeGrKx5QE

Source
I saw quite a few posts and comments praising Putin and essentially equating him to Trump. Nothing is further from the truth, and this reaction to his address reflects the real public opinion.
Just thought some of y'all might be curious.

How the fuck does one "hack" a site?..
Gain admin access and... keep it running?
Pay domain fees?
I thought they were a software company... Evil, but at least capable and competent. Sigh.

I keep posting this -- along with sources and analysis -- in every thread speculating there's no excess death.
Somehow people believe completely baseless claims over properly referenced ones so long as they confirm their suspicion that everybody lies.

Some even said "it's the CDC data, so it must be fake" -- all the while pointing to the CDC for the 6% number.
It appears, the CDC are likely posting the correct data (think the official ICD COVID codes, the true COVID-only number of deaths, all of those studies pricing masks are useless, etc.) -- it is their conclusions and recommendations that are wacky.
Edit: and they don't talk about the data contradicting the narrative (which is most of it) publicly.

Let's ask the author, shall we? 😂

OMG 😳😂
https://i.maga.host/kXD9pJA.png

Source: "Baby Names 2019" by Eleanor Turner.

There already was such a precedent with speed cameras. Phoenix used to be leading the nation in that regard by 2010. And then the cameras disappeared all of a sudden...
An angry man got out of his car and shot the driver of a "mobile speed camera vehicle" -- and just like that, they were gone.

I've lamented about this exact thing several times now...
Serious question though: what to do about the hospitals?
They all mandate the muzzles, and naturally I can't not go to the hospital when I need to.
Does anyone have any thoughts?
The state is Indiana of it helps.

Wow that's deep, man! Bravo. 👍

Indiana. I lamented about this same issue several times here.
I cannot fathom what is going on in people's heads.
This level of intelligence should render the simplest tasks insurmountable.

This. Fucking this.

Ну, как говорится, во многом уме много горести.
А вам, я вижу, по существу вопроса сказать нечего.

Во-первых, не надо этого амикошонства, я с вами на брудершафт не пил.
Во-вторых, откуда вы знаете, к чему собственно я привык и как я мыслю?
В-третьих, "sic" означает совсем не то, что вы думаете.
В-четвёртых, у вас с грамматикой и правописанием полная беда. Читать ваш опус очень тяжело.
В-пятых, ненависти? Простите, откуда такие выводы? С чего вы решили, что я кого-то ненавижу?

Ну и наконец в-шестых, по сути вопроса: "давай", как вы говорите, без голословных мнений, ладно?
Сельское хозяйство и лёгкая промышленность -- русские? Откуда цифры?
Иностранцам землёй в России владеть нельзя по закону, а вот контролировать -- пожалуйста, чем они успешно и занимаются.
Из 7.5М Га находящихся в собственности крупных предприятий (свыше 100К Га), на 2013й год лишь 5.3М были в собственности российских компаний, а остальные 2.2М (30%) управлялись иностранцами.
Касательно лёгкой промышленности, действительно, "во владении иностранных собственников находится 3,4% активов", однако "по сравнению с 2005 г. эта структура практически не изменилась" и "в легкую промышленность иностранные собственники особенно не стремятся в силу относительно низкой инвестиционной привлекательности отрасли."
Причём тут Путин?

Я вам порекомендовал ресурс, но вы, очевидно, им пренебрегли.
Что ж, вот документы, прямо из росстата: тут и про результаты поддержки рождаемости, и про импортозамещение, в частности, есть.
Буду по-буржуйски, чтобы понятно было всем.

Here are some official stats from Rosstat (Russian Bureau of Statistics).

1. From 2000 to 2015, the number of hospitals decreased by 50%, and hospital beds by 27%.
2. From 2005 to 2016, the number of primary/secondary/high schools decreased by 34%, the number of pupils who got a certificate of "general education" by 37%, and the number of teachers by 33%.
3. From 2000 to 2015, the birth index indeed increased from 1.195 to 1.777, but by 2019 it collapsed to 1.504, back to the level of 2008 (1.502).
   How bad was Putin for Russia if his policies moved the country back 11 years -- back to 2008?
4. From 2000 to 2011, the number of emigrants continuously decreased from 145,720 to 36,774 (even in 2009 compared to 2008!), but in 2012 it jumped to 122,751 and by 2018 it reached 440,831.
   Nearly half a million people leave Russia every year.
   In comparison, the number of immigrants was relatively stable: in 2001 there were 193,450, in 2010 -- 191,656, and by 2019 it grew to 701,234.
   Russians are being replaced. Doesn't sound like nationalism to me.
   The Insider conducted a more elaborate analysis back in 2016.
5. This 2012-onwards trend can be seen in e.g. "purchase power".
   In 2020, the median (across all categories of groceries) purchase power decreased by 10% compared to 2012, especially fish, grains, milk, butter, and tea.
6. Many heard about the "import replacement" Putin declared when he imposed the "counter-sanctions".
   The idea being that once the competition is removed from the market, the niche is filled by the local farmers.
   Well...
   The rate of e.g. meat production has decreased from an average of 5% per year before 2016 to just 2% in 2019.
   From January 2015 to January 2020, the median sales of core food items decreased by 6%, most of all meat (down 20%), cheese (16%), butter and other animal fat (15%), and fresh fruit (13%).
   Again, 2% more people are buying 20% less meat.
   Let that sink in.
7. Finally, from 2000 to 2014, "mineral products" (yeah, that's oil) in Russian export increased from $56B to $350B.
   What's worse, the proportion of oil in export increased from 54% to staggering 70.4% as well, so when the crazy high oil prices crashed, Russia had nothing to replace oil in export, which led to a staggering decrease from nearly $500B in 2014 to $344B in 2015 and $285B in 2016.

The bottom line: Putin's time was not always bad -- but it was hardly his achievement. It's all about the oil.
While the oligarchs bathed in oil dollars, the government let people live -- but at the same time is completely abandoned its basic functions.
During that time, people prospered primarily due to lack of government intervention (personal opinion).

However, left to their own devices and without maintenance, the leftover parts of the Soviet system deteriorated beyond repair, as evidenced by the Rosstat data.
When the oil crisis arrived, it was exacerbated by the political crisis of 2011, intervention in Ukraine, and the $50B Sochi Olympics.

When the chips were down, Putin showed what he really cared about.
Taxes and age of retirement rapidly went up, free speech was squashed, all mass media began espousing exclusively propaganda, elections were openly rigged, all forms of protest were destroyed.
People in Hong Kong protested with blank sheets of paper? In Russia, they were arrested.
Oh, and Putin is selling Russian resources to China, wholesale, at a bargain price.

If anyone's looking to download a PDF:
https://f.maga.host/2LCPlCP.pdf

For one, lots and lots of guns.
In all seriousness though, just because it is America, it is not guaranteed that these things won't happen.
What is guaranteed -- and this is what we're observing -- is that these things will be handled differently.

Compare and contrast:
Exhibit A: the first openly fraudulent election in Russia was in 2011 (Congress election), 60,000 citizens infuriated by blatant cheating marched in Moscow and a number of other cities.
Result: multiple arrests and long prison sentences, zero consequences for powers-that-be followed by 2012 and 2018 brazenly fraudulent presidential elections and a 2020 "referendum" that "zeroed out" Putin's time in office, so he'll remain there for life.

Exhibit B: the first openly fraudulent election in the US: worldwide chatter, "nothing's over," and we'll definitely pull through (unless the leftists start executing people in broad daylight, I surmise).

The difference is the system. The US is not a land of prosperity and opportunity because nothing bad ever happens here -- it is because it's been rationally designed to withstand attacks on its system of governance and its people.