Heather Cox Richardson
Running ghost candidates is one of the techniques outlined in the Russian concept of "political technology," designed to capture a political system without overt violence. #politics #voting #elections #nightmare

@Jezibaba
If HCR says it, it's right. These damn people. 🤦🏻‍♀️

@CinnamonGirlE @Jezibaba: It used to (and may still) be done in local and state races in IL, PA, MD, LA, and NY. I read about being not at all unheard of in parish, county, and other elections for utility commissions, zoning, and others.

@thedisasterautist @Jezibaba
It all makes me so weary sometimes. I just read elsewhere about Mississippi banning access to online books under 18. Fighting against this idiocy and evil is exhausting.

@CinnamonGirlE @Jezibaba: And it never ends. Because people never stop being people, generationally. After two generations, sometimes only even one, people forget what lessons their earliers learned, often the hard way, in order to make the world those kids or grandkids enjoy. Also, as Hercule Poirot said, "Evil never sleeps."

@CinnamonGirlE @Jezibaba:

Or as Q said on the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The trial never ends."