The Washington Post, I think it was, ran another article calling for an end to the Electoral College. It occurred to me to comment that if that happened, we might find that there were a billion eligible voters in Philadelphia. The Democrats could get enough votes in Philly to win every national election in perpetuity. Everyone would know it was bullshit, but if no one did anything, if none of our leaders led, if none of our law enforcement officials enforced the laws and none of our judges judged, why would it not continue? It will continue until stopped. Obviously. Yesterday would have been a better time to stop it, but today will work.
If you take that basic concept, and apply it to the States, where for now it resides, the concept remains. Are we going to allow a handful of cities to grant the Presidency to a fraudulent candidate? All it really takes is one city in each State to cheat, and every office becomes purchasable and thus for sale to the highest bidder.
And I will emphasize that point: we are wondering why our leaders are such fucking cowards. Why is Brian Kemp obviously failing to do his basic duty, as a Governor, as a Republican, and as a human being? The simplest answer is that he is corrupt. It may be that to win any race anywhere, in the age of Dominion, you have to pay the counters. You might have to promise favors.
We can’t know how long this has been going on, or how bad it is, but it is obviously getting worse. I told someone this morning this is like watching a horror movie. I had that same feeling when I read William Shirer’s “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”. Hitler should have been stopped so many times. He should have been stopped perhaps a dozen times. But at every inflection point, someone failed. Someone had a failure of courage, or principle, or intelligence. None of what happened should have happened, but it all did. And it was like reading a horror novel, whose ending you know, but which remains terrifying every time.
We are in that time now. I feel that strongly.