“Further, I’m starting to believe that there are unelected people who REALLY run the country. Faceless, unnamed, unelected and unseen....and they have the ultimate control over these things.”
You are one of the few that “get it”
everybody else in the USA doesn’t.
Some here think voting for a Democrat or a Republican means something and at some level it does, but in reality Democrats and most Republican voters are stupid and don’t have a clue how the Federal government really works.
We ceased to be a Republic in 1913 with the passage of the 16th and 17th amendments.
The only good thing to come out of this proxy war is Russia is not going to be able to hold it’s own territory much less attack anybody else in the near future.
Chechnya, Georgia, et al will be able to tell them to “Blow off” I would if I were them.
Perhaps China will take back the resource and water rich lands they ceded to Russia so many years ago.
Payback is a Bit*h.
Voting to leave the Republican bastards in our government NOW is just as bad as voting Dem!!! These bastards HAVE TO GO, HAVE TO BE PRIMARIED, if not primaried,NOT VOTED FOR under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!! If the seat goes to a Dem fight like hell to get another seat from another state!! THIS BS HAS TO STOP!! Graham, McConnell, Merkowski, Collins, Cornyn ARE NOT REPUBLICANS, Pence IS NOT A REPUBLICAN we have to CHANGE THIS even if it is painful!! WHAT THE HELL did our side do to help Trump NOT A DAMN THING§! We got the SCOTUS however the ONLY one I completely trust there of the NEW justices is Gorsuch!! It is so ironic Gorsuch was the one I had several doubts about YET he has proven me completely wrong about him!! PLEASE people NO MORE voting the lesser of two evil THEY ARE THE SAME DAMN EVIL!! Let McConnell ROT IN HELL before sending the bastard a nickel!! Sometimes NO PAIN NO GAIN!! They don’t give a shit about the people in this country BECAUSE these bastard THINK we will vote for them over a Dem under ANY circumstances STAY HOME!!