“Well, casualties do happen when you try to take on a deeply entrenched political establishment that has the full support of...at least half of the population of a nation.”
Why do people presume that? Only a quarter of the population votes for the forces of evil, and of that quarter a substantial number of voters are dead, fictional, or otherwise ineligible to vote.
How does that become “at least half the population?”
“Only a quarter of the population votes for the forces of evil, and of that quarter a substantial number of voters are dead, fictional, or otherwise ineligible to vote.”
OK...if you want to get ridiculously anal...half the voting population. However it occurs, most of Congress and most of the Senate got there by winning elections. The people that vote put them there. And are keeping them there for, in most cases, decades. No one is getting thrown out by the voters, so that “quarter” of yours is doing yeoman’s work. They’re beating everyone else put together, that’s blatantly obvious.