That, I heartily agree with and have been harping about it since I was old enough to understand how fucked we as ordinary people are.

So… you’re tryna say… there is no center?

I’m not smart enough to decipher what’s implied by the poem.

First-past-the-post. Electoral College. Gerrymandering. No ranked choice. Our fucked voting system is awful.

What is their message?

About half of us, yes.

Where is the center?

sore threw soar through

Themselves including included.

I’m an American living in the Netherlands. The Dutch just elected a “conservative” goon named Geert Wilders several months ago. His rhetoric has been eerily similar to what’s coming out of the UK, Germany, France, Canada, and Australia. Hell, Meloni in Italy has roots in the OG fascist party. They’re getting too comfortable.

From what I can discern through my news apps (Associated Press and Reuters, these days), Palmer and Dutton are quite a vintage of proper cunts, but I argue the entire anglophone world is inundated with these authoritarian cocksuckers.

With sincerity, I hope that in your next election they’re shoved into the trash compactor of history along with all the other bitch-made invertebrate right-wing lunatics that are pissing in everyone’s coffee across the globe, just as we (hopefully) will do so with the Orange fucker today.

EDIT: Well, looks like we’re fucked.

Thanks for your insight. Now give me the recipe for a delicious borscht.