Great couple of essays William. I sincerely hope you are correct. But it they succeed in doing away with fair elections, they may not even need their party. This current pattern of insane shit, might actually be crazy as a fox (channel), suggesting a party that knows it cannot win national elections anymore, so it will just cancel them. While I am a Yellow Dog (via FDR), I am not sure the Democrats in their Republican Lite version gives us much to cheer about either, beyond being the only thing that now stands between us and Full Frontal Fascism. It is like Gore Vidal said, The US only has ONE party, The Property Party and it has to two wings, Republicans and Democrats.