Paul Ryan no longer has a dog in this fight. He is, and has been for some time, only a spectator in the blood sport of official methods of ballot fraud.
As Joseph Stalin was supposed to have said, “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” This opinion, or one very much like it, has been repeated by triumphant tyrants all down through history in those places where a franchise of a vote is even offered to the general population.
Democracy, like equality, has many many different connotations, few if any of them beneficial to the human condition.
For democracy to work, there must be a populace that is capable of informed opinions, and has access to the real situation on the ground. For equality to work, there has to be a mutually agreed to set of ground rules, and the will to enforce them fairly and impartially.
Or as I often observe,"If voting meant anything we wouldn't be allowed to do it."
Not bad. The kicker is, if the policies were fairly and impartially enforced, we’d all have a hard time finding an elected Democrat anywhere but in the most Blue/Liberal areas of the country. And I doubt you’d see more than a few in any Governor’s office.
Putting corrupt, amoral political hacks in stocks lining Pennsylvania Avenue would be a good first start for these examples of human waste.