Awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
The only thing I should have written differently was that "then simple arithmetical counting of votes was an invalid method for determining the winner" should have said, "then simple arithmetical counting of votes was an invalid method for determining legitimacy".
I've used that concept, about the Democrats and their Republican friends, before - the key issue for them isn't "who is the winner?", but rather, "is the winner legitimate, i.e., should the winner be left in peace to serve his term and to fulfill the duties of his office, or not?"
The working out of this idea, novel in 2000, has brought us to a situation where the Left's opposition can't ever win, even when they win.
Many people here see this as hypocrisy, or a scam - that is, the Left knows that the winner (Trump, at the moment) is legitimate, but they deny it for some sort of advantage.
It's more complicated than that.
The Left has infected itself with the mind virus of Marxism-Leninism. Lenin's fundamental contribution to the century of bloodbaths was to articulate the concept of false consciousness, literally meaning, what the voters do is meaningless because they don't know what they are doing.
Every elected Democrat, and many elected Republicans, believe this deeply. As long as they do, and as long as a little less than half of the Americans oppose them, there cannot be peace.