The de facto argument the Left makes is that no one has cheated YET. This of course, like nearly all the words coming out of their collectivist mouths, is fatuous.
I actually told a bunch of Green Berets some time ago, meeting them for the first time, that “I heard you guys steal things.” The leader said “We’ve haven’t stolen anything from YOU. Yet.”
Here is the thing: imagine that the Stimulus checks had been sent out in bulk with no names filled out. With blank spaces in the To section, so anyone could fill them out and cash them.
In theory, this could work. It could be more efficient. Everyone who needed the money would get one, cash it, and the money would be distributed.
But do you really need to have been on Planet Earth very long–more than a decade or so–to understand that many, if not most, if not all, of the checks would be cashed by people other than the intended recipient?
The goal is not to trust fraud has not occurred, or to point out that it has not been successfully caught and prosecuted in more than a few cases. The goal is to make the system SAFE, and resistant not just to fraud, but CHARGES of fraud. If cheating is POSSIBLE, then whichever side loses has every reason to scream FOUL.
No Conservative, I don’t think, has forgotten 2018, when four major races were decided at the last second by bags of mail in ballots found at the last minute which were mysteriously 95% votes for Democrats. The whole thing reeked to high heaven.
When I say to you “vote early, vote often”, nobody thinks of Republicans. We are, as one senior Democrat strategist once put it, the dumb ones. The ones too stupid to play the system, to game the system, to win by any means possible.
I expect Trump to play New York style hard ball in this election. That is his job. He is the guy to do it. He’s been seeing this shit all his life. The same people who scream bloody murder about everything will scream about this too. If those screams are not part of the background noise you ignore in your daily life by now, I would ask why are you are being so stupid. None of them mean you well, if you are not one of those screaming. And they are screaming about the risk of losing money and power. All of them are assholes, so all of us should welcome this.
I continue to believe that if Trump does not win, then we will see shooting on our streets. The faith in the system will be gone, and all need for restraint vanished. Let us all devoutly hope he wins, wins big, and that he gets another four years to put us back on the path to a sustainable future of freedom and prosperity.