Invisible Things

by Mat Johnson

Because even acknowledging the problem would be tantamount to admitting their dream about the nature of this place is delusional.”

They’d all seemingly accepted that this was the way of things, that this was what an election looked like. That ubiquitous anti-democratic barriers were just another feature in the glory that was democracy.

That it was normal that the underdog didn’t just have to get the most votes: They had to go beyond that and get enough votes to overcome the immune response of the status quo.