Do I sound too much like a conspiracy theorist? Or am I resonating with some people? [View all]

I'm still wondering about events which led up to the President's decision to get out of the race. We went through several weeks of chaos, manipulation and finger-pointing which increased the pressure on the President. Trump was genuinely afraid of Biden, and the moves he was making inside his campaign showed it. Ultimately, the decisions that were made were forced, not by the rank and file of the party, but by the big donors. That may very well have been the point where we lost this.

And with all of the whining and caterwauling made by Trump over 2020, which has never let up, some of the statements coming out of various locations about "safeguards" they put in place to make sure Democrats couldn't "steal" it this time, make me suspicious of whether the Republicans didn't "steal" it, and not just by voter suppression. No one in the Democratic party will have the guts to challenge this, though. We have people in place to make sure this transition is done in traditional lame-duck style, quietly, and with little fuss, just to prove that we do it better than they do, when it doesn't matter any more.

Democratic leadership spent the last four years helping to convince me that this election was do or die for Democracy, and I got fired up, worked my ass off, sacrificed to make political contributions way beyond my means, taking it out of my gas money, riding the train to work, and eating a simpler, less expensive diet. Now, it appears, it will be business as usual. We are going to lie down and let them steamroll. And hope for the best and that there will be a country left in four years.

That's the ledge I'm on right now.