Yeah, let’s put OUR thumb on the scales.
Platform of people that we are telling what to do.
Yeah, now you get new chains.
Etc.
I know the feeling. Jimmy Carter charmed me like that once. I thought the old conservatives were spoil sport fuddy duddies. It turns out that such “democracy” was more like “mobocracy.” And they saw no irony in it.
Ding, ding, ding - that's a thread winnah!