Something that always bothers me during election time, even in leftist spaces, is the lack of any discussion of direct election tampering. In addition to voter suppression and gerrymandering and such, we know electronic voting machines are seemingly designed for the purpose of tampering, and the dem primaries were blatantly rigged with shitty apps, coin flips, and "rouding errors" that somehow all went for establishment candidates. So, are we really sure any vote totals are legit, or is it a giant psy-op whose results are tailored to produce the preferred political climate for capital?
I mean, this is kinda my point. If this is true, if votes are completely meaningless and "results" were agreed upon and produced by the CIA or whatever, why do we bother with Beltway Garage type shit at all? Why do we discuss trends and polls and shit?
I mean I don't think it's that conspiratorial, gerrymandering, voter registration purges, closing polling stations in poor communities, disenfranchisement of convicts are all examples of the capitalists choosing who voted and therefore who wins. Not to mention PACs and corporate media controlling the perspective. They don't need the CIA to fake numbers or anything that direct, they have all the tools they need and they have all been normalized