Does something tragic have to happen before people pay attention?

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32. No one seems interested in stopping this.

A convicted felon, indicted for inciting an insurrection against the Capitol, stealing classified documents, and convicted of rape, was not stopped from being ineligible for re-election, and after spending four years whining and complaining and pointing to the ways he claimed to have been cheated out of the 2020 election, which should have been a warning about exactly how he was going to cheat to win the next one. He ran, and used a lot of what he claimed had been done to him, to win, and got elected. No one bothered to check whether or not he cheated, in fact, the opposition was proud of the fact that it lost and didn't whine about being cheated out of it.

The corrupt, bribed Supreme Court, which is the root cause of the problems that got us here, was allowed to sit without alteration during four years of Democratic party control of the White House and Senate, two years of full control of Congress. There were those who suggested putting their political careers on the line, being bold, taking a risk, and doing what it took to pack that damn court. In exchange for doing this, we get:
1] the overturning of Citizens United, taking billionaire money out of politics
2] the overturning of unbridled Presidential immunity from prosecution for committing crimes against the people
3] the restoration of Roe v. Wade
4] the expidition of Trump's court cases, delayed by the justice department's incompetence and foot dragging, and his interminable delay filings. One good justice, picking up those cases and trying them, could have gotten guilty verdicts on indictments that would have rendered him ineligible to run again and sent him to prison. Good reason, then, to re-open Alcatraz or keep Guantanamo in operation.

But no one did anything.