the United States is no longer a democracy it is, at best, a hybrid regime due to the fractured states-system— a flaw once again being leveraged by white supremacist separatists who are holding half the nation hostage. it’s very funny people talk about voting to save democracy as if there was any precedent for that or as if this election will decide the fate of our democracy as if the fascist radicalization of our entire political system hadn’t already incited such a fate. harm reduction is all well and good but if someone has a gun to your head there is no time to keep icing your wounds you have to take drastic, alternative actions that break the status quo.