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Who Shall Govern?
American Thinker.com ^ | November 28, 2020 | Kate Domenick

Posted on 11/28/2020 5:05:22 AM PST by Kaslin

I was eleven years old in November 1960 when my father and I watched Richard Nixon concede the presidential election to John F. Kennedy. My father, a former FBI agent, shook his head. “Another victory for Mayor Daley of Chicago,” he said.

“What does that mean?” I asked.

“It means Mayor Daley stole the election,” he answered.

“Then why doesn’t Nixon do something about it?” I asked indignantly.

“Because it would tear the country apart, and no one wants that.”

“Why not?”

“It doesn’t work that way,” he replied. “Nixon is being a gentleman.”

Of course, it wasn’t just my dad who felt that way. I heard his sentiment echoed many times after that election by teachers, news commentators, and my friends’ parents. The election might have been stolen, sure, but these things happen. Move on.

I didn’t agree with that thinking then, and I don’t agree with it now. Is it gentlemanly to allow an election to be hijacked right before your eyes? And what does “tearing the country apart” mean? A civil war? Why? Because someone finally pulls back the curtain on corruption that we’ve lived with for decades?

If the citizens are the body politic of democratic republic, voting is its life’s blood. Voting gives vitality to a free country, expressing the will of the people in a tangible way that, as we are often reminded, has consequences. Steal the vote and you sap America of its energy and purpose. What’s the point of living in a country that is ostensibly self-governed if our votes don’t count?

My own run-in with the vagaries of the voting system came as I prepared to cast my first ballot for president in 1972 in the city of Philadelphia.

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1 posted on 11/28/2020 5:05:22 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

From Lyndon Johnson’s keg of ballots, Kennedy’s steal fraud has ramped up and gotten bolder. As long as they keep getting away with it...


2 posted on 11/28/2020 5:13:09 AM PST by Fido969 (,i.)
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To: Kaslin

That was an odd time in history. I am under the impression that certain parties did not want Nixon to become president but they also did not want Kennedy to remain president so they eliminated him. A confusing and of course troubling time.


3 posted on 11/28/2020 5:16:05 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Kaslin

Nixon had a couple factors in play that are not present today. Plus the factor that cheating is the way that government works. Politicians are generally unable to criticize the crooked system that put them into power.

Cold War was on, and there was a sense that the USA should appear organized in the face of that.

Nixon was a politician, a fairly young one at that. Give up POTUS this time around and he’s likely promised to get it the next cheatin’ time around.


4 posted on 11/28/2020 5:17:10 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Wilhelm Tell
I am under the impression that certain parties did not want Nixon to become president but they also did not want Kennedy to remain president so they eliminated him. A confusing and of course troubling time

Agree Wilhem.

My understanding is that Kennedy got on the bad side of the Deep State when he threatened the Federal Reserve thugs and said he wanted to tear the CIA apart into pieces.



5 posted on 11/28/2020 5:24:04 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Kaslin

His name was Seth Rich.

His name was John F. Kennedy.

His name was Bobby Kennedy.

His name was Martin Luther King.

His name was Abraham Lincoln.

His name was Jesus Christ.


6 posted on 11/28/2020 5:33:43 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

JFK would be to the right of 99% of the RINOs in the Senate.


7 posted on 11/28/2020 5:39:54 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

The Chicago outfit made sure that JFK won. Then he and RFK turned on them and they got revenge. Yes. The Mob killed JFK.


8 posted on 11/28/2020 5:45:19 AM PST by Raceway
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To: Kaslin

Now is the time for the people to rise up and refuse to allow fake elections anymore. If the people allow themselves to be disenfranchised now, they will never get another chance. We cannot be silent. We must make our outrage known.


9 posted on 11/28/2020 5:48:37 AM PST by Saveourcountry
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To: Kaslin

Bttt


10 posted on 11/28/2020 6:12:54 AM PST by Guenevere (No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you(Isaiah)
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To: Kaslin; All

His name was Michael Hastings.

HIs name was FReeper Andrew (Breitbart)

https://freerepublic.com/memorial/memorial.htm

Steven K. Bannon’s War Room (I think it’s on today)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3903806/posts

(from old post)


11 posted on 11/28/2020 6:17:00 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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https://americasvoice.news


12 posted on 11/28/2020 7:01:39 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

Fortunately, Trump is not a gentleman. :)


13 posted on 11/28/2020 7:05:54 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Well said.


14 posted on 11/28/2020 7:21:43 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Kaslin

Except Mayor Daley did not steal the presidency for Kennedy. That canard has been around for far too long. Kennedy would have won without Illinois’ electors.

The fact that Texas was stolen made the difference.


15 posted on 11/28/2020 7:25:59 AM PST by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

👏👏👏


16 posted on 11/28/2020 7:46:31 AM PST by MyDogAteMyBallot
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To: Kaslin

“If voting mattered, they wouldn’t let us do it”
George Carlin


17 posted on 11/28/2020 10:06:41 AM PST by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: Kaslin

“Mr. Smith goes to Washington “. On steroids.


18 posted on 11/28/2020 1:06:45 PM PST by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.dirt road.)
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To: Kaslin

Right now, the U.S. is in a very precarious place.

A group is thinking they’re going to take over with a bare (and questionable) majority and immediately ram through attacks on freedoms that the rest of the population holds dear.
The other side is convinced that the vote tabulations are so corrupted by fraud and indefensible gaming of the process that any changeover of power would be illegitimate.
Whoever is inaugurated in January will not be accepted by the vast majority of the “other side of the aisle”

The more passions rise and/or freedoms are seen to be threatened, the more likely someone is to lash out before “it’s too late”. With tensions running this high, it would only take a small spark to set off the powder keg we find ourselves in (think Archduke Ferdinand).

The only sane course of action would be to pull back and seek reconciliation. Instead, one side is talking about “re-education” and revenge. They don’t seem to realize that they’ve weakened all of the norms that they think will protect them, should the other side decide that a peaceful solution, short of total surrender, isn’t possible.


19 posted on 11/28/2020 2:23:39 PM PST by S. D. Waters (My life is an open book, but it's badly written and I die at the end)
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