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The Democrats May Not Be Able to Concede (therefore, Republicans should vote for Biden to keep Democrats from rioting)
The Atlantic ^ | 09/14/2020 | Shadi Hamad

Posted on 09/14/2020 7:46:32 AM PDT by Drew68

This is the era of expecting the worst while hoping for the merely tolerable. Some might say that the worst is already happening—economic disaster and 190,000 dead from a pandemic—while the president and his surrogates insist, in a feat of self-delusion, that the “best is yet to come.” As someone who has argued against catastrophism—I don’t believe Donald Trump is a fascist or a dictator in the making, and I don’t believe America is a failed state—I find myself truly worried about only one scenario: that Trump will win reelection and Democrats and others on the left will be unwilling, even unable, to accept the result.

A loss by Joe Biden under these circumstances is the worst case not because Trump will destroy America (he can’t), but because it is the outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy, resulting in more of the social unrest and street battles that cities including Portland, Oregon, and Seattle have seen in recent months. For this reason, strictly law-and-order Republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in Biden winning—even if they could never bring themselves to vote for him.

In presidential elections, once is a fluke; twice is a pattern. I struggle to imagine how, beyond utter shock, millions of Democrats will process a Trump victory. A loss for Biden, after having been the clear favorite all summer, would provoke mass disillusion with electoral politics as a means of change—at a time when disillusion is already dangerously high. If Democrats can’t beat a candidate as unpopular as Trump during a devastating pandemic and a massive economic contraction, then are they even capable of winning presidential elections anymore? Democracy, after all, is supposed to self-correct after mistakes, particularly mistakes as egregious as electing Donald Trump...

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To: HangnJudge

Yup.

Got it at the magazine kiosk in the Valley Mall in hagerstown.


21 posted on 09/14/2020 8:01:37 AM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Seriously, so true. Reminds me of the way a teenager will work a situation to their advantage when they believe you don’t have a brain.


22 posted on 09/14/2020 8:01:39 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly reccomend private school.)
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To: Salamander

Even Mad Magazine became angry and humorless in it’s last year with TDS


23 posted on 09/14/2020 8:01:57 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Drew68

I’ll repeat this till the day they vanish!!......THE MEDIASNAKES NEED TO BE DECAPITATED FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION’S SURVIVAL!!! They are killing us slowly and surely!! It’s them or us!!


24 posted on 09/14/2020 8:02:42 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: poinq
-- We are reenacting 1930 Germany. --

Yep. Brownshirts, defund the police, propaganda and control of message.

25 posted on 09/14/2020 8:03:00 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: HangnJudge

And I’ve suddenly realized that I was reading that stuff when I was 12.

That explains a lot about my sense of humor.

:D


26 posted on 09/14/2020 8:03:05 AM PDT by Salamander (The left screams out in pain as they stab you.)
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To: Drew68
I hope and pray that the Republicans will not accept the Democrats stealing this election. by whatever means necessary.Anything except surrender, they can count on my help, as little as it is. I will never surrender.
27 posted on 09/14/2020 8:04:12 AM PDT by sport
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To: Drew68

We must burn the Atlantic’s office to the ground!


28 posted on 09/14/2020 8:04:17 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Drew68

Not sure what he’s on, but I’m pretty sure it’s illegal.


29 posted on 09/14/2020 8:05:29 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: DarthVader

That has my vote. And execute every traitor inside.


30 posted on 09/14/2020 8:05:49 AM PDT by sport
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To: cotton1706
Actually a good article. You can feel the fear in them.

I wish I could've posted the whole thing but Atlantic required an excerpt. If people are at the paywall limit, I was able to read it all in a private browsing window.

They know the polling is shifting, might not have been true to begin with, and they're really getting nervous.

Funny thing is, one absurd argument the writer makes is that we need to vote for Biden because he's leading in the polling!

31 posted on 09/14/2020 8:07:04 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

Why are Outlandish articles allowed on FR? They are lying propagandists. They shouldn’t be posted here.


32 posted on 09/14/2020 8:07:21 AM PDT by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: Drew68

What’s a Shadi Hamad?


33 posted on 09/14/2020 8:07:34 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

If the leftist losers continue to riot, we have a lot of prisons. If we run out of s, use the empty loser nfl stadiums.


34 posted on 09/14/2020 8:07:52 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Drew68

I’ve always said these fake polls that always have the Democrat in the lead ( then later the R wins ) are dangerous.


35 posted on 09/14/2020 8:09:32 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Drew68
"... So, if Republicans are truly the 'Law and Order' party, they need to ensure that Joe Biden wins."

The author seems to be confusing the concepts of law and order.

Order comes from imposed authority, so if we want to live in an orderly society, we should let the left take over and impose their order.

The law represents the template within which free people can build successful lives, so if we want to live in a lawful society, we should do everything in our power to destroy the left and return to the rule of law.

I vote for law.

36 posted on 09/14/2020 8:09:40 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: poinq; Liz; Jane Long; metmom
poinq :" Wow, this is how Hitler came to power.
They convinced Hindenburg to make Hitler the Premier in order to appease his people.
We are reenacting 1930 Germany.
This is why we need to teach real history."

Quite true,.. and needs to be repeated !
We don't have a Nevil Chamberlin to sell us out,
instead we have "The Atlantic", a ghost of publications past.
In the world of "Never Forget"(post 9/11), there is an attempt to repeat history.
This is why the Nihilists de-emphasize history and civics.
"Those who ignore history are bound (or doomed) to repeat it" - George Santayanna (paraphrased)

37 posted on 09/14/2020 8:09:40 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Salamander; HangnJudge
I bought that magazine.

Gen-X'er here. Born in '68. I must've been 13 or so when I found a box in my parents' closet full of old National Lampoon magazines from the 60s and 70s. The classic issues. I read every one over and over again and cherished them all.

The Left used to be funny.

38 posted on 09/14/2020 8:10:34 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: sport

It’s getting to be that way but they are instigating things! It’s their fault!


39 posted on 09/14/2020 8:11:15 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: fwdude
Why are Outlandish articles allowed on FR? They are lying propagandists. They shouldn’t be posted here.

It's boring preaching to the choir, pretending none of this stuff outside our safe little forum is happening.

40 posted on 09/14/2020 8:12:03 AM PDT by Drew68
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