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Thoughts in a Dark Time
Townhall.com ^ | November 10, 2020 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 11/10/2020 3:43:34 AM PST by Kaslin

As there is too much to say in the space of one column, I will simply offer some thoughts on the state of the country a week after the 2020 elections.

No. 1: While I am not certain the reported election results are dishonest, I suspect they are. Worse, about half this country believes this, too.

This is unprecedented in American history.

One might counter that this is not unprecedented, that this was precisely what half the American electorate felt in 2000, when many Democrats rejected the 2000 Supreme Court decision regarding Florida's ballot counting. But that was entirely different. No one alleged widespread Republican fraud in the election of George W. Bush. The issue in that extremely close election involved a faulty voting system that resulted in hand recounts using differing ballot-counting standards from one jurisdiction to the next. Liberal justices joined the 7-2 vote in ruling for Bush that the recounts could not constitutionally go forward.

Therefore, the fact that nearly half the country is far from certain that Joe Biden was honestly elected is unprecedented.

Half this country believes, with good reason, that if Democratic Party officials believe they can get away with cheating, they will do so. Aside from the Democrats having a history of ballot-manipulation, there is an even more compelling reason to believe Democrats would cheat. For four years, they have been telling the nation and telling one another that President Donald Trump is a dictator, a fascist and a white supremacist. Therefore, if a leftist considers himself a moral individual and works in tabulating election results, and he can help prevent the reelection of a white supremacist fascist dictator, wouldn't he do so? Wouldn't he be morally obligated to do so?

No. 2: For four years, the mainstream print and electronic media waged daily, indeed hourly, vicious attacks on Trump as a human being. Rarely did they attack his policies, since they were so beneficial to America (some of the greatest economic figures in memory and the lowest black unemployment rate ever recorded) and to the world (a major weakening of Iran and a major strengthening of Israel and Israel-Arab peace). Worse, the media and the Democratic Party immersed the country in a three-year lie about Trump campaign collusion with Russia.

Yet, 70 million Americans still voted for Trump. The Democrats lost seats in the House and will probably not gain control of the Senate, despite the larger number of Republican incumbents who were up for reelection.

Americans watched Democratic governors and mayors do nothing as left-wing thugs burned their cities. And then they watched Democratic mayors and city councils defund their police departments. That is one reason Democrats fared so badly.

No. 3: The mainstream media is now perceived as fraudulent by half of America. This has never been the case. But from The New York Times' mendacious claim that America's true founding was in 1619 and was founded in order to preserve slavery -- for which the equally dishonest Pulitzer Prize committee awarded the paper a Pulitzer Prize -- to the entire mainstream press's ignoring of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, only left-wing Americans now believe the mainstream media.

No. 4: That is one reason the tech companies shut down conservative voices. The more people hear non-left ideas, the more they gravitate away from the left. As a result, for the first time in American history, free speech is seriously threatened-- not by government, but by private companies. Free speech is the most important freedom of all. If we lose it, it is the end of our country. What may happen then is the division of America, either formally or informally, into two nations, each with its own media and its own schools.

No. 5: Despite four years of being accused of racism and xenophobia, Trump increased both his black and Latino vote. If Trump lost honestly, it was due to his loss of the white male vote -- from +31 in 2016 to +23 in 2020.

No. 6: The Democratic Party was once liberal. It is now leftist. And the left, everywhere in the world, suppresses dissent wherever it takes over -- from Lenin to the modern American university to Twitter and the rest of Big Tech.

No. 7: Liberals loved America. The left loathes it. Therefore, since the left governs American education, America-hatred dominates the education system from kindergarten to graduate school. You are risking the poisoning of your children's minds, souls and consciences by sending them to most American schools and nearly all American colleges. Don't. Home-school, or find a school that teaches rather than indoctrinates.

No. 8: Hydroxychloroquine, one of the safest and oldest medications known to man, when given with zinc to almost anyone as soon as the individual develops symptoms or tests positive with COVID-19, prevents death and even hospitalization in the overwhelming majority of cases. History will likely note that the politicians and scientists who opposed Hydroxychloroquine have a lot of blood on their hands.

No. 9: Those who can work from home are far more likely to support lockdowns than those who cannot work from home. As a rule, the former are more likely to be Democrats and more likely to be wealthier than the latter.

No. 10: All over the country, stores in big cities were boarded up solely to protect themselves from left-wing rioters should Trump have won. When Biden was declared the winner, the boards came down. Because everyone knows that conservatives don't riot.

No. 11: If Biden wins, more and more non-left Americans will lose their reputations, their businesses and their freedom to speak.

All of which plausibly renders the Georgia runoffs for U.S. senator the most important elections in American history.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; bloggers; election2020

1 posted on 11/10/2020 3:43:34 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“Democracy,” whatever that is, dies in American cities. Welcome to the Age of Demographics, America. Winter is coming.


2 posted on 11/10/2020 3:52:51 AM PST by TTFlyer
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To: Kaslin

The 2000 recount was in ONE county of Florida controlled by DEMOCRATS who CONTROLLED the voting and vote counting process.

There is no comparison to today.


3 posted on 11/10/2020 3:54:58 AM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Kaslin

he is 100% correct!!!


4 posted on 11/10/2020 3:56:52 AM PST by dennisw
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To: Kaslin

Well said.


5 posted on 11/10/2020 3:58:21 AM PST by WhattheDickens? (Funny, I didnÂ’t think this was 1984Â…)
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To: 2banana

Wrong. I was in Hillsborough County, Florida during that election and we were recounted TWICE. Both time the vote fairy favored Gore. If not mistaken, 4 counties were recounted.


6 posted on 11/10/2020 3:58:43 AM PST by sevinufnine
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To: Kaslin

btt, Just because we don’t resort to violence at the drop of a hatpin, DOESN’T MEAN WE WON’T REVOLT IF NESSARY.

THE LIBERTY TREE WILL BE WATERED. YOUNG AND OLD. GUNS, AMMO IN SHORT SUPPLY. MY GUN TRORE CLOSED 2 WEEKS AGO. HUNTING NEW ONE.


7 posted on 11/10/2020 4:01:33 AM PST by GailA (TRUMP IS A GUTSY PRESIDENT)
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To: TTFlyer

Not if we spit of CA and New England PEACEFULLY.


8 posted on 11/10/2020 4:03:23 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: GailA

You are skipping over a split up the USA, a peaceful session of states.


9 posted on 11/10/2020 4:05:17 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

Well that was depressing.


10 posted on 11/10/2020 4:11:31 AM PST by be-baw
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To: central_va

It won’t be peaceful and we all know it. Revolutionary War 2.


11 posted on 11/10/2020 4:23:02 AM PST by GailA (TRUMP IS A GUTSY PRESIDENT)
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To: GailA
It won’t be peaceful and we all know it.

Who is we? You got turd in your pocket sister? Your kids can die in a civil war not mine, I want a peaceful secession. So hold your fire you blood thirsty < expletive deleted >.

12 posted on 11/10/2020 4:25:18 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

We will organize and defeat them or lose the Republic. It is that simple.


13 posted on 11/10/2020 4:27:57 AM PST by ohioman
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To: Kaslin

“No. 11: If Biden wins, more and more non-left Americans will lose their reputations, their businesses and their freedom to speak.”

Warming up for end times. You ready? And, with D’rat control, we’ll all get the mark.

The NWO plan: Mark of the beast, 2020 style. Supporting links:

Event 201, pandemic response practice Oct. 2019 - highlight video:

https://youtu.be/AoLw-Q8X174

ID2020, Bill Gates and everything about you:

https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines

Along with ID2020, Bill Gates is pushing quantum dot vaccination tattoos:

https://savedmag.com/bill-gates-quantum-dot-digital-tattoo-implant-to-track-covid-19-vaccine-compliance/

ImmuniPass - Your vaccination data card; will you be allowed to enter businesses?

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/515743100/the-world-s-first-covid-19-immunity-passport-has-been-issued

Blockchain Digital Identity Alliance - your credit data and leash:

Https://youtu.be/F1EVs2GMsRg

Lucifer’s minions have been working very hard on this.


14 posted on 11/10/2020 4:28:40 AM PST by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Kaslin

Right now the best thing that can happen to these pukes is a trump win. The bad orange man is still the target, if the election is stolen from the bad orange man the rioters looters BLM antifa and many others will set thier focus on biden and his crew and this is where the party starts because we know they eat thier own. In hoping for some enjoyable entertainment along these lines ultimately those that brought us to this point, we will have to clean up after the mess they made and that will be real ugly


15 posted on 11/10/2020 5:02:44 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: ronnie raygun
BLM antifa and many others will set their focus on biden and his crew and this is where the party starts because we know they eat thier own.

Sorry but if Biden were to take office the big anti anarchy crack down begins. The mayors will suddenly get all law-and-order....

16 posted on 11/10/2020 5:06:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
Sorry but if Biden were to take office the big anti anarchy crack down begins. The mayors will suddenly get all law-and-order....
IMHO the mayors can’t allow disorder to reign for four years.

17 posted on 11/10/2020 7:43:59 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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