Watching Russell Brand’s take resulted in having another thought.

They cancelled the party primaries.

They did away with debate conventions like the live audience, and again refused to invite any third-party candidates, in an effort to rig the outcome to every extent possible.

Now that it has blown up in their faces anyway, they’re talking about ripping old Joe out of his slot and replacing him with someone the party bosses think would have some better chance against the orange peril.

Does any of that sound like Democracy to you?

That thing that we were supposed to be saving, by voting blue in the first place?

It is in fact closer to martial law than to the will of the people–just like in their puppet state over there on the Russian border, where elections were cancelled and where no constitutional leader exists any more. But no one seems to notice.

The master debaters didn’t, for all intents and purposes, even talk about that endless war or any of the others that threaten to bloom this year (if not next month).

No, we got “abortion”. And the golf scores of doddering white men.

But, my darlings, things are even worse than all that sounds.

33% of the electorate, according to a CNN poll, say that Biden won the debate.

One third of the demos, even now, simply refuses to believe the testimony of their own lying eyes.

So saving democracy from the oligarchy, even it were still a remote possibility, wouldn’t actually solve anything, because The People in general have lost the ability to think critically and impartially and rationally.

About anything.

You and I are blessed with front-row seats for this glorious theatrical pageant on the compelling subject of how empires end.

Not in fire, not in ice. Not with a bang, but neither with a whimper.

With nothing but a vacant stare, accompanied by a soundtrack of burning brown children someplace far, far away.