The fact is that no matter who won the election, it would not have been legitimate. The electorial system in the US is completely rotten. Republicans lied about *how* elections are rigged, but they were able to do that because they leveraged the truth *that* US elections are rigged. It was rigged to keep people from ending slavery, among other things.
US elections are rigged by the two party system, where candidates are chosen by the oligarchy before the people are allowed to pick between them. Then the election is rigged again by the electoral college and gerrymandering to make sure that only right wing candidates can actually win.
The fact that we were forced to choose between fascism and neoliberalism, neither of which represented the desires of the majority of the country, is itself a damning condemnation of the antidemocratic nature of American "democracy."
The US was never a democracy, nor was it ever intended to be one. It's time for everyone to get in to the streets and demand democracy. Refuse the transfer of power and demand an actual free and fair election, one in which neither party is allowed to run a candidate, one with ranked choice voting and no electoral college. Trump did not win a free and fair election because the US has never had one.
The US was always headed for dictatorship, because that's the inevitable course of a nation built on slavery and genocide rigged to continue on course at any cost. The fact is that we don't need to continue on this course. It is time to reject the US electoral system and make something better.
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