Your #459 should be a sticky on every thread created on this website.
I wish it wasn’t the case, but it sure as hell is.
It has actually been true for a long time. Since WW2. Maybe before.
As long as people voted for acceptable Regime “Conservatives”, the elections went thru and it looked like voting mattered and elections were real.
But if one looked closely there were huge issues that the masses didn’t want, but the elites worked together and it happened anyway.
Mass immigration, “free” trade, deindustrialization and outsourcing, financialization, endless tax increases, school busing, end of school prayer, gay marriage, entire “green” crap, LGBT school grooming.
People never wanted any of this but it didn’t matter.
The fake “conservatives” pretended to oppose it all, but never reversed any of it.