Posted on 11/27/2020 9:32:18 AM PST by Mount Athos
However the presidential election turns out, one thing is clear, half the country will believe that the man officially sitting in the White House is an illegitimate pretender.
And that’s the way it’s been throughout this century.
The crisis of presidential legitimacy really kicked into gear in 2000. Before that people might hate the president, but the opposing political party wouldn’t insist on his illegitimacy. Afterward every president has been treated as an illegitimate criminal to be opposed and driven out.
Twenty years later, the Democrat strategy of presidential illegitimacy has brought the country to the brink of civil war. Declaring that President Bush was illegitimate wasn’t just rhetoric. Congressional Democrats fought certification of the election results in 2000 and 2004, and touted impeachment. The Iraq War did not radicalize Democrat opposition to Bush, like the pandemic, it gave the already radicalized Democrats a tangible thing to justify their treason.
The Democrat doctrine of presidential illegitimacy changed how our government worked.
The first duty of House Democrats became public shows of resistance and hostility to an illegitimate president. And presidents responded by acting unilaterally through executive orders and actions. The collapse of relations between the executive and legislative branches led to a stalemate that benefited the unelected parts of the government: judicial and administrative.
Republicans worked to secure the judiciary while Democrats tightened their hold on the administrative state. But pitting a conservative judiciary, in politics and temperament, against the culture war of elites and their administrative state that made the rules was an uphill battle.
The losers were voters whose ability to influence the issues they cared about dropped as the unelected parts of government grew more powerful while the power of the voters shrank.
But the American people by inclination and the system by design tended to split the legislative and executive branches between rival political parties to maintain a check on political power.
The Democrats responded with frantic schemes to rig the system through ballot harvesting and election fraud, abolishing the electoral college, and adding Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as states all to bypass the clear preference of voters for a divided political system.
Their goal isn’t to make the system fairer, but to rig the system so no one else can win.
The Democrats reacted to 2016 by demanding that some of the country’s biggest companies, in and out of the tech industry, join them in fighting President Trump. The resulting oligarchy consolidated a political movement and its cultural sympathizers in the administrative state and corporate sphere to declare a total war against President Trump and his supporters using tactics ranging from widespread censorship on the internet to wiretapping and criminal investigations..
The sum total of this effort was to move power further away from voters and into an oligarchy.
The irony of an oligarchy consisting of some of the most powerful men and women in the country, and their corporations and government institutions consolidating power under the guise of fighting for the oppressed has plenty of historical precedents. All of these precedents are bad.
The oligarchy claims that contrary views, which it labels “disinformation” pose a unique threat to “democracy”.The unique threat isn’t posed by disinformation, disagreeable speech, or lies, a concept as old as mankind, but by the usurpation of political power by an unelected oligarchy.
Between 2016 and 2020, elections have been undermined, voters have been disenfranchised, and the First Amendment has been dispensed with in response to various emergencies, from President Trump’s victory to the pandemic by the private-public alliance of the oligarchy.
Governors responded to the pandemic by usurping the power of legislatures and other elected officials, such as the secretary of state in Nevada, to unilaterally ban public gatherings, outlaw protests, enter private residences, and fundamentally change how elections are conducted.
They also worked with tech companies to suppress political protests against their activities.
Tech companies, which command the marketplace of ideas, suppressed political scandals involving Biden, and amplified scandals involving President Trump. The administrative state and elements of the judiciary worked to undermine President Trump, obstruct his policies, and block his actions on any available pretext in a political coup of unprecedented scope and scale.
And, if that weren’t enough, the violent mobs of the Black Lives Matter racist movement, backed by corporate money and massive assistance from foundations like the Ford Foundation, terrorized entire cities and suburbs while mobilizing support for Democrats and their agenda.
The 2020 election occurred under this state of emergency, imposed not by President Trump, but by a coalition of Democrat officials, media propagandists, and tech companies with ugly results.
Even beyond the outrageous voter fraud that marked this election, there could be no better way to delegitimize a presidential election than through the combination of Democrat abuses of power, violations of civil rights, mass propaganda and censorship, and mob violence.
This is how elections are conducted in Third World countries and now in America.
We have come a long way in twenty years since Bush v. Gore. And now it’s not about hanging chads or the details of the disputed elements. It’s that no one trusts elections anymore.
Despite the outraged disdain with which the media met Republican challenges to the election, there is nothing that Republicans have alleged about the election that Democrats did not allege about the previous elections that they lost. The same narratives about voting machine hacking, illegitimately counted, marked, and destroyed ballots, and even calls for electors to reject state results were there and will be there again. But only Democrats are allowed to make them.
Because only Democrats are allowed to wield power. And since only Democrats are allowed to wield power, any election they win is legitimate and any election that they lose is illegitimate.
But the problem with breaking the system to gain power is that the system stays broken.
The Democrats justify each breach by depicting each new Republican as a unique threat to be stopped by any means necessary. That doctrine of presidential illegitimacy is now a permanent element of our political life. And delegitimizing presidents begins with delegitimizing elections.
Democrats delegitimized Bush and then Trump by attacking the legitimacy of the 2000, 2004, and 2016 elections. Is it any wonder that by 2020 no one trusts election outcomes anymore?
The Democrats have made it clear that they want absolute power and that their own legitimacy isn’t a problem because they control the distribution of information through the media and now through an alliance with tech companies that monopolize internet search and social media.
But propaganda doesn’t grant legitimacy, it destroys the public’s trust in institutions.
Public trust, unlike propaganda, isn’t selective. When enough elections are delegitimized, then no election is legitimate. And then no president elected through such means is legitimate.
When public health experts insist that Trump rallies spread the coronavirus but Black Lives Matter riots don’t, then public trust and compliance collapse. The only lasting message of double standards is that there is no standard and that all that really matters is power.
The crisis of this election was decades and generations in the making. It’s now here.
The Democrats embraced a strategy of delegitimizing elections because they don’t derive their power from the traditional political system of the country, but from subverting it. Everything they did this year and the last four years was aimed at subverting elections and voters. And if the public loses faith in elections, that will make elections that much easier to steal in the future.
Their endgame is rule by an oligarchy, by the stakeholders and representatives of identity politics victimhood groups, but not by representatives of the electorate of the states of the union.
That is the fundamental crisis of the republic. The issue is not just one stolen election, but a strategy of delegitimizing elections, shattering representative government, and replacing it with an unelected oligarchy backed by mass propaganda, censorship, and political repression.
The crisis of the republic is emerging out of the shadows of the state and we have to meet it. Its urgent question is whether ours is a government of the people or a people of the government.
It’s a very very long article and it leaves out the most important number. 85% accepted Bush as president of the United States and 85% accepted Trump as president of the United states. Don’t let them let everyone think that there’s more against Trump than there are.
Because it’s a lie or else the mainstream media and deep state and the multi-billionaire high-tech companies and possibly foreign Nations wouldn’t be involved.
they would have had to do minimal cheating if the country was divided down the middle. So this is a lie.
Someone on Trump’s team should quietly approach Jonathan Turley, lay out all the evidence of election fraud, and ask him to join the cause. Make him the face of the effort instead of Rudy.
And in my opinion, The Republic is not in crisis yet
Unless the electoral process is completely revamped, this is pretty much it for General Elections. Every future election will be contested to hell and back.
The voter rolls need to be completely purged.
Motor Voter needs to be repealed.
All citizens who want to vote need to re-register using Real ID compliant identification.
Attempts to fraudulently register voters need to be punished severely.
Voter rolls need to be connected to other systems so that voters that die or move are un-registered.
Of course, if the Federal Government had not slipped its leash and become so outrageously and un-Constitutionally powerful, we would not care (much) who won...
Well it’s about as close to a crisis as one can get without being one :-)
if they’re weren’t many tens of millions of us and many of those armed, this would have been a done deal already. Trump would be gone.
And if they are depending on antifa and BLM to be their army, they just sacrificed a lot of people’s lives.
Only one guy shot back and got them and they didn’t know what to do.
If the military took a side and it was not ours things would be a little more different.
Bkmk
I consider this to be a great example of suicidal stupidity on the part of the perpetrators of this fraud.
Yeah. Tell millions of Americans that they no longer have a vote to decide who their leaders will be.
Millions of Americans who have broken gun sales records since March.
Brilliant!!
This thing is a mess. Yes, you and I are furious that our choice was “defeated by fraud”. That is 70 million plus.
We want it corrected. However, the media and big tech are so big a part of the steal that they would likely NEVER admit the election was stolen and there was massive fraud. They can’t say anything else at this point based on their prior declarations.
There is no best case scenario. The theft stands and our side behaves as usual even though they are mad and don’t accept the Biden administration? I don’t know about that. I think there are people on the right who will become far more aggressive. The FBI will investigate them and DOJ will prosecute them.
OR
The courts do the right thing and the left goes into hysterics and violent rioting. The media crafts a dictator narrative and things get worse. Why not? The violent leftists have faced little consequence for their actions this year. At this point, they will steal the Senate run-offs in Atlanta. Why not? Where is the consequence?
The left has catastrophically divided the country over an election even as they appear quite tepid about “Biden”. We are at Civil War levels of emotion on both sides and the media is ignoring it, but it is real and it is going to have big consequences no matter what happens.
Truth.
And I personally think he'll get a justifiable decision
Everything you say is correct and I so much don’t want the worst to happen. But then there’s no point in voting anymore or pretending we have freedom if biden takes the office.
Even Obama couldn’t beat biden’s cabinet picks and team members
They are left of left.
The great reset will happen.
And it would destroy us
And then there's this that many people simply do not see or believe, they are going to make all of those who vociferously opposed them pay, from the local level all the way up to the national level, bar none.
The Best Summary ever. Now the only question is, just like in years past, how many of us who are truly awake or willing to risk their lives to defend the republic that our founders bestow to us.
If Joe Biden becomes POTUS I believe we are in for a civil war that will not end well for the entire Democrat Party and their Fake News Media. Democrat, Joe Biden is no more fit to be be POTUS then a wild nutcase, drunken, monkey hidden in a tree.
Poor Moron, Joe Biden, has nary a clue and waits every day since election day for his orders from master puppeteer Barack Hussein Obama, who by the way, is calling all the shots & pulling all the strings for sad sack, loser, the hapless moron...named Biden, who is corrupt, brainless and criminal, combined!!!
Trump in Georgia next Saturday, December 5th, 2020....hope he holds his MAGA Senate Support, Rally at a gigantic outdoor football stadium or maybe at Atlanta International NASCAR Speedway because about 1,000,000 or more loving Trumpies will be showing up to support, cheer on, and defend,the greatest USA, POTUS ever and the real true winner of the POTUS 2020 election, by landslide victory, DJT!!!
Trumpie, we, Trumpies in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Missouri,etc., will be in mass,gathering, there to meet & greet you. Beloved President, Donald J. Trump!!! We are with you...”SIR”!!!
Well he shot them in self-defense or he probably would have been seriously injured or killed himself if he didn’t do that.
There’s no hot war right now so people can’t go around shooting people unless they are defending themselves. Not that that has stopped to some on the left.
I was thinking our side really needs to win this or the prosecutors are going to have a list of our FR comments when we are brought to court :-)
“ If the military took a side and it was not ours things would be a little more different.”
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Just note that our military, the finest in the planet, couldn’t subdue Afghanistan, a nation of about 32 million largely ill-educated, cave-dwelling, sheep-herders who were not exactly armed with the latest in military technology. Oh, and we were operating in THEIR country, with less hesitation about breaking things and killing people. Now, suddenly, our armed forces are going to take on 10 times the number of people, who are well-armed and educated, on home territory...and when at least half of those forces are on our side. Yeah, sure.
No the "average person" is not willing for the above. However, you'd be surprised how many are willing. I'm not talking about computer warriors that say, "bring it on". Think clandestine.
They spent 4 years attempting to criminally over-throw a U.S. President, now they’re trying to convince everyone the election was perfectly illegitimate.
Not even those drooling in cups buy that bull s**t.
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