<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Sep 6, 2016, at 9:12 AM, Will Steinberg <<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">On Sep 6, 2016 11:59 AM, "Aleksei Riikonen" <<a href="mailto:aleksei@iki.fi">aleksei@iki.fi</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">
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> Sorry, but I think you'll find out that what you have this year is the<br>
> new normal...<br>
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> This is what democracy looks like in an empire entering it's period of decline.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Yeah, I know this. It's of course only going to get worse. If we even get to another election, and if it doesn't happen this election, next time I guarantee there will be an abnormality in the election process--candidates will be replaced, election day will be delayed or cancelled, the rules will undergo a forced changed.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div>There were no abnormalities in previous elections? Nothing strange happened in 01968, 01976, or 02000? And the rules didn't change afterward? The US is still using the same election rules as in the Eighteenth Century?<br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<p dir="ltr">I'm just trying to figure out where will be safe. An island, probably. The Ryukyu Islands, or Madagascar? Perhaps the steppes of Central Asia, or far northern Canada.</p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Anders mentioned Tasmania. ;)<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr">Antarctica if we need to. Maybe it'll be tropical by then</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If by then you mean a few centuries hence, yes.</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="ltr"> (even though it will of course never be astronomically tropical, barring some crazy alterations to our planet's precession.)</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This too shall pass.</div><div><br></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div></body></html>