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 This is indeed a great set up. It will serve as a good reality check. Because once 4 years go by and all remains mostly as is, more people will realize how useless voting truly is (and that it always comes down to a manipulative politician dangling the latest carrot to blackmail you into voting through fear and/or emotion). We’ll need several of these until voter turnout crashes. Sure, a couple promises might be kept, a couple of headlines for the believers so they can say “see he is working on it”… but nothing truly groundbreaking. In another 4 years, we’ll still have most people thinking that the next time will work because this time “insert excuse,” but little by little more will see that kneeling didn’t work. All along, it just meant accepting their rigged game, which keeps the machine that put Ross in jail going, and in turn, may keep punishing others in the future just like it did with him. In the wise words of someone “there is them, and there is you”