by Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Most Americans assume that our system of government could never fail, but the truth is that it is failing right in front of our eyes. In order for our system of government to work, people need to be able to believe that their votes will count and that the outcomes of our elections will be fair. For over 200 years, most Americans did have faith in the system, but now things are rapidly changing. Here in 2020, we appear to be heading for a hotly contested result in the presidential election, and many on the losing side are inevitably going to believe that the election was stolen from them. And day after day we just continue to see more examples that indicate the security of our elections is being compromised on a widespread basis. Not too long ago, I wrote about the military ballots for Trump that had been discarded in a dumpster in Pennsylvania and the ballots that were discovered in a ditch in Wisconsin. And now today I came across a report about how memory sticks that are “used to program Philadelphia’s voting machines” were stolen from a warehouse…