And that, more or less, is what this is all about.
Ever since David Boies went into court on Al Gore's behalf and made the argument that "voter intent" as determined by a court instead of actual arithmetical counting of votes should determine who rules, I knew that we were finished unless the other side could somehow be persuaded to stand down.
But the chain of events since November 2000 has made things worse, not better.
When Kerry lost in 2004, the media reacted by stepping up their efforts to modulate voter intent. In 2008 and 2012, they were convinced that their efforts had succeeded, that the "intent" of the voters was now aligned with their performance on Election Day.
But since this has proved false, they have become agitated, crazed, willing to do anything to enthrone "voter intent" (communism) over what actually happens when the voting takes place.
Because only a 'crazy person' would vote for a Republican.
We become more and more like the Soviet Union every day.