How do shutdowns typically end? When public and political pressure to reopen federal agencies mounts, and lawmakers fear getting the blame for the cutoff of government services. – New York Times Newsletter, 2 October 2025
Donald R. Trump did not win election as the 47th President of the Untied States in North America. He didn’t win election as the 45th, either.
Nobody did.
Quick quiz. In the years since 1932, only one person has actually won election to the Presidency of the USNA. That person was:
A. Joe Biden
B. Dwight Eisenhower
C. Lyndon Johnson
D. Franklin Roosevelt
Answer: A. Mr Biden is the only person since 1932 who garnered more votes for the Presidency than Nobody, the choice of registered voters who did not cast a ballot. In all of the other elections, including 2016 and 2024, the true winner was Nobody, usually in a landslide. Mr Roosevelt came close to beating Nobody in 1936 and 1940. Mr Eisenhower, in 1952. Mr Johnson, in 1964. The 2020 election that chose Mr Biden is the only one since 1932 in which Nobody came in third.
In the 116th Congress of the USNA (year 2018 CE, the latest for which Your Friendly Neighborhood Amoeba could find appropriate data when he looked), twenty-seven (27) of the persons seated in the House of Representatives actually won their seats. All the rest of the elections were won by Nobody, in more than half of the cases by a simple majority.
No election is valid unless it counts the votes of ALL registered voters, including the votes of those who do not go to the polls – and can therefore be tallied as having voted for Nobody.
Think about it. (Yeah, yeah, prohibited language. See you in court. The way things are going, we might get a date in 2029.) How can a electoral system in which more than half of its electorate fails to participate be considered representative? (Kindly consider the implications of the fact that YFNA considered it necessary to define “representative democracy”.) It certainly cannot be considered majority rule, as the majority is not represented. It is, instead, rule by faction, by special interests, for which the majority shows no interest whatsoever, for which the majority chooses “none of the above”.
For which the majority chooses Nobody.
How can such a system be considered as anything other than broken? Perhaps broken beyond repair?
It’s not like any of We the People care about democracy. Think about it. (See above.) How many of the things We buy are produced by a company that practices democracy? Good luck finding one. Remember when Google tried it? Yeah, that worked out. We don’t care anyway. All We want is Our stuff.
Perhaps We owe George III and his successors, and the subjects of that British Empire that We did so much to help to destroy, a colossal apology. We might discover that rule by monarch is preferable to rule by machine.
Probably well after it is too late.
