When white supremacy starts losing elections, white supremacists game the system to hold power anyway.

This is why the United States lacks democratic legitimacy.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/27/georgia-augusta-judicial-circuit-split-republicans

A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia – so white Republicans made their own district

After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit

The Guardian

@alexwild The United States has a roughly 2/3 eligible voting rate. This is what happens when a massive chunk of the electorate ignores their civil responsibility for whatever stupid justification: other people decide for you, usually in ways that only benefit them. If you don’t like what’s happening politically but you’re too lazy to vote, you have no right to complain.

The people get exactly the government they deserve.

@Dogzilla I wouldn't discount intentional voter suppression.

Although in a few of the cases @alexwild it's not that no one votes, but that the votes are being blatantly ignored.