True true. Heck it takes some 100-150ms for your brain to register what your eyes have seen.

No you always see into the past.

Light cannot travel back in time. The reflection you’d see in the mirror is the light that left the Earth 20 years ago.

We just need to point our telescopes towards the phantom zone where Zod and his buddies can reflect the light back.

Having a choice means being able to make the wrong one, as we did.

You aren’t wrong in that the democrats prefer the status quo but it’s far from both sides being the same. If we have to pick a side, and if we are still pro democracy, we do, there is only one correct choice.

Now if we can convince that side to then use the victory to change the rules, then so be it. For example, Ranked choice voting would be great, but let’s get more states to use it before expecting the highest office in the land to adopt it.