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Tell me more about trust into the current administration.

Reflect on how trusted and fact-based are they.

To me (who was growing under the Soviet puppet government), it's pretty much the same, up to and including secret prisons, the killings and kidnapping for wrongthink.

There's a chance we will go back to normal - the way New Yorkers respond to Mamdani gives me hope.

[mindslight]

The problem is that going back to "normal" would require either Republican voters (en masse) to accept what a terrible mistake they've made, or for the Democratic establishment to stop being the "good cop" stasis option still controlled by corpos. And neither one seems likely.

We'd have a chance with ranked pairs voting, which would naturally allow competing options to gradually gain support rather than the current two party duopoly. But getting that to be implemented would also require one of the above.