US Presidential security is a result of a series of assassinations. For whatever reason a lot of people prefer to target the US President. As the US' role internationally has increased over the years the risk has also increased. When presidential security increased nutcases and axe grinders started targeting candidates. The risk is not hypothetical.
The people running the system do matter; change is effected slowly over time through the actions of the people holding office. It might seem like "the exact same politics" but history proves you wrong.
I don't think Trump's election is some reasoned attempt to "shake the tree", otherwise people wouldn't have voted straight-R and handed control of Congress right back to the same Republicans who have controlled Congress for the majority of the past 30 years and are the people actually responsible for the problems in government since Congress controls domestic policy far more than the President.
Trump's election was a combination of apathy of certain D voting blocs, gerrymandering, and people wanting to send a "screw you!" message to some perceived Not Real America™. The total number of votes required to change the outcome is far less than a million in just a few midwestern states.
Gerrymandering is probably the biggest problem we have right now. It's actual electoral fraud designed to disenfranchise the majority's will and I don't see how it is qualitatively or quantitatively different than other forms of electoral fraud like Putin engineering his own re-election.
The people running the system do matter; change is effected slowly over time through the actions of the people holding office. It might seem like "the exact same politics" but history proves you wrong.
I don't think Trump's election is some reasoned attempt to "shake the tree", otherwise people wouldn't have voted straight-R and handed control of Congress right back to the same Republicans who have controlled Congress for the majority of the past 30 years and are the people actually responsible for the problems in government since Congress controls domestic policy far more than the President.
Trump's election was a combination of apathy of certain D voting blocs, gerrymandering, and people wanting to send a "screw you!" message to some perceived Not Real America™. The total number of votes required to change the outcome is far less than a million in just a few midwestern states.
Gerrymandering is probably the biggest problem we have right now. It's actual electoral fraud designed to disenfranchise the majority's will and I don't see how it is qualitatively or quantitatively different than other forms of electoral fraud like Putin engineering his own re-election.