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Democracy: Terms and Conditions Apply

What do you call someone who enters a game, loses, then flips the board and says the rules were unfair all along? In politics, that move has become alarmingly familiar. It’s not just outrage — it’s a refusal to accept that other people’s choices count. In recent years, we’ve seen conservative figures across North America participate in elections with full enthusiasm, only to question their legitimacy the moment results don’t go their way. What they dislike isn’t a broken system — it’s a functioning one that includes people they can’t control.

Political Thought™

We hear from them after every debate, every poll shift, every stumble. They sound confident. They sound informed. But it’s always the same trick: reheated truisms and dramatic overreads delivered with absolute certainty. And when reality catches up — when the prediction fizzles or the framing collapses — no one goes back to compare. There’s no appetite for that. The cycle has already moved on, dragging everyone with it. There’s always another headline, another event to misinterpret. The pundit’s mistake becomes part of the background noise, indistinguishable from the rest of the broadcast.