China hangs its fallen oligarchs. Here you just buy off politicians and threaten media with lawsuits if they don't tow the line. Literally a reporter walked off set this week, because a guest strayed too far into lawsuit territory. And a voting machine company sued a politician for a Billion Dollars for disparaging its black box results. All in the last month. While I support everyone having their date in court. I think its safe to say that in the last year, millions of people both left and right have woken up to how politicized and crooked the justice system is.
> And a voting machine company sued a politician for a Billion Dollars for disparaging its black box results.
That's one way to phrase it. Another would be that a highly visible, influential politician used that influence to attempt to destroy a multi-billion dollar company; specifically by using what may well be lies and slander, presenting it as truth.
May or many not be, until we have discovery and actual third party audit.
If corporations can decide which politicians to platform, count the votes, and can sue into bankruptcy politicians that question the results, than clearly power rests with the corporations and the oligarchs. Politicians are just for show.
As a cynical citizen, I'm going to assume that if it wasn't possible to adjust the vote totals, their machines wouldn't have been picked. Responsibility for transparency is on them. Full third party audit, random vote sample statical analysis, and so on. Would be much more preferable to instil confidence in their corporation than suing a disgruntled politician.
