If and when people figure out how stupid and unnecesasary these lockdowns were and are, there is a LOT of latent rage that could easily drown the Democrats (and some Republicans, like Mike DeWine).
This is true even if Joe Biden gets in. The crimes are too large, the cynicism too horrific.
I think President Trump should have a website where all the evidence for voter fraud that has been publicly presented in courts or to legislatures is listed in as much detail as possible. For sworn affidavits from people who ( understandably) want to remain anonymous, just give them numbers, like Witness 1, Philadelphia, Witness 1 Pittsburg, etc.
There are two battles here: one for the right to serve a second term that he won on November 3rd; and the battle to have the legitimacy of his victory recognized in the court of public opinion.
Our media views it as their job to drive us insane. But we are not all crazy. After all, Trump seems to have won EASILY. It was not close, despite a media—notably social media— led propaganda offensive without an equal in American history.
Make the evidence obvious and easily accessible and digestible by people of average intelligence.
Assuming he does get reinaugurated as he deserves, I think President Trump should create a website listing his accomplishments. That would suit his personality well and serve the concrete practical end of reinforcing daily his competence and successes in the eyes of voters.
the Kingdom was lost.
If power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, our system was designed to minimize corruption, by diluting it in many ways, the most important of which, arguably, was by offering it in time delimited and renewable ways.
It was offered as a contract, to be renewed at the will of those offering the contract.
But when fraud is present, this part of the system is rendered inoperative. There is no check. There is no balance. As tedious as a politician who needs your vote may be, the one who does NOT need your vote is vastly worse. This is power without consequence. This is a return of Aristocracy.
And the First Amendment was intended in large measure to create an informed electorate, or at least create favorable conditions for it. . It, too, is intended to dilute power, since power unquestioned and unquestionable is well on its way to being absolute.
The practice of a power elite choosing for the people who would rule them is ancient. Even in the early days of our Republic this was the system. Most men and all women had no say at all.
These are the bad old days voter fraud necessarily returns us to. Sooner or later every evil practice the Left rightly condemns they return to and call Good.
I tend to focus on the ideological aspect of cheating—cheating for a supposed cause—but much of this is as banal as putting elections up for sale to the highest bidder. We are handing our country over to greedy crooks.
No: until the Supreme Court insists, in a formal ruling, that every reasonable effort be made to use existing technology fully to protect the value—the worth, the 1 and not the .75 or zero of differing forms of fraud— of every legitimate vote, bad things which should not have happened will continue to afflict the American people.
I would insist it is their positive duty and NOW is the time.
I think that until the Supreme Court establishes fair and honest elections as a positive right under the Equal Protection Clause, the problems will not be fixed. In some places cheating has been nearly uninterrupted for a hundred years or more.
And the consequences are enormous. People die who may have lived. People live impoverished, unhappy, ignorant lives, who might have flourished.
A Joe Biden Presidency may mean war with Iran—John Brennan seems to be a fan, so the Usual Suspects are involved, who have marginalized by President Trump—but not a Trump Presidency.
None of this is trivial. It is literally existential for many millions of people.
If Nixon had been inaugurated in 1960, as he should have been, it is most likely we never would have gone to war in Vietnam. If we had a avoided that war, the youth counterculture would most likely nog have emerged the way it did. And if we had not given the Communists that fertile breeding ground we may not be as batshit crazy now as we patently are.
Fair and honest elections are the single most important element of our system, in both principle and practice. They are an integral part, obviously, of the rule of law, and have been neglected much too long.
And we need the Supreme Court because Democrats have cheating well enough and long enough that they control enough power at all levels to block effective legislative remedies. There was widespread cheating in the last national election, in 2018, and before that 2016. It is an existential threat to everything, and the President lacks the power to fix it, and much of Congress would not be there without it. Mark Kelley most likely lost his race. So did Sinema.
Maybe the DNC is behind Q-Anon.
This was a high level pass at the end of a long day. Ill dig more tomorrow.
Like many I am marveling at, and confused by, the profound pusillanimity of so many of my fellow Americans.
It occurs to me to wonder if their physical weakness and likely literal physical cowardice has something to do with it. In American history we have never been en masse this weak. In general, most of us were strong, for most of our hustory
He will be BY FAR the least legitimate President in American history. Yes, I remember the “corrupt bargain” of 1824, but John Quincy Adams did not engage in voter fraud in most of the elections in most of the States, and was not a known crook who had taken up to billions of dollars in indirect bribes. He also did not have a drug addict son who belonged in jail for being a pedophile.
I will not stop hoping Trump can get justice, but if the Dems DO get Joe in there they may well regret it pretty quickly, for a variety of reasons.
Thinking about it Section 230 is not such a terrible thing.
The problem is not REALLY that Big Tech is tacitly editorializing. What they are REALLY doing is playing the role of Political Action Committees. They are engaged in active political advocacy, having swung by one account 6 million votes.
So I would suggest that if they do not straighten up they should be regulated as PAC’s, and some proportion of their advertising revenues treated as political contributions.
I do not know the law, but I think a clever lawyer could make this work.
That would be both cleaner and more honest than revoking 230.