<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@the_art_of_giving_up" class="u-url mention">@<span>the_art_of_giving_up</span></a></span> oh, no, there absolutely was. and anyone blind enough (wilfully or due to stupidity) to not see it has no business making predictions</p><p>on this map the US democracy is marked as healthy (deep green) as it gets, which hasn't been true in 2023, hasn't been true in 2016, and arguably hasn't been true since Bush v Gore though that was at least ambiguous</p>