Posted on 01/04/2021 10:28:18 AM PST by Kaslin
If nothing else, conservatives must all be on board with addressing the disastrous crisis of trust this election has produced.
Restoration of trust in due process is the central goal of the statement issued by Sen. Ted Cruz on election integrity. He and the 11 other senators who signed it understand something that few officials and pundits—particularly many self-described conservatives—are willing to admit: to certify electors without a comprehensive investigation into thousands of allegations of fraud in the 2020 election would be a betrayal of Americans’ trust as well as an egregious violation of their oath to protect the Constitution.
Whether or not you agree there was massive electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election does not really matter at this point. Every American should be deeply concerned if nearly half of all voters are convinced that large-scale fraud handed the election to the Biden-Harris ticket. Some may hope the conviction will fade with time, but more likely the distrust will deepen, especially since it comes despite non-stop denials and censorship about fraud by both Big Tech and Big Media.
Rasmussen’s poll indicates that 47 percent of voters believe fraud swayed the election (and 75 percent of Republicans). Some dismiss Rasmussen as leaning to the right. But even standard left-leaning pollsters such as Quinnipiac and Reuters consistently claim that half of Republicans believe there was massive fraud.
Reuters even noted that 16 percent of Democrats and 33 percent of independents agreed. And Quinnipiac has a sizable percentage of all registered voters—34 percent—not believing the Biden-Harris ticket won legitimately. Some expect these millions of Americans to “come around.” But it’s more likely their uneasiness will fester as more facts about fraud ooze through the cracks in the media machinery in the months to come.
Any way you slice it, the numbers are disturbing. And we all feel in our gut that November’s election was the weirdest in America’s history. You needn’t be a Trump voter to be disturbed by obvious peculiarities. Then there’s the lack of ability to publicly audit voting machines, the lack of transparency during counting processes, and more.
While Trump’s legal team may not have had the time to investigate, bring, or win many non-procedural arguments, these concerns still matter to the public and deserve investigation. For a thorough run-down of the many glaring anomalies generating public concern, see the 36-page report by Peter Navarro, director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy. Or Willis Krumholz’s well-researched piece at The Federalist or this tongue-in-cheek Twitter thread.
The more invested Big Media and Big Tech are in driving their preferred narratives into our brains, the more reason we have to distrust them. Their immediate labeling as “disputed” of any fraud reporting feels like they doth protest too much.
Their constant claim that election fraud is “extremely rare” is as laughable as claiming that human beings would never in a million years cheat when the prize is power. Spare us. The crisis of trust in America feels deeper than ever before.
The essence of conservatism is to conserve principles of due process and the rule of law. Those values are essential for avoiding chaos and tyranny. So why would anyone identifying as conservative ignore the innumerable oddities revealed since November 3?
Even the editorial board of the supposedly conservative New York Post in telling President Trump to “give it up” would not squarely address the central concern: auditability of votes and transparency. Its ad hominem argumentation included the Pravda-esque line “Sidney Powell is a crazy person.”
We already know that Big Tech and the propaganda media are invested in fraud denial and in shutting up anybody who asks about abnormalities by comparing them to Holocaust deniers. Sadly, that’s no puzzle. Nor need we question why Democrats don’t care if their win is perceived as grand theft by scores of millions of Americans. They just don’t care how they’re perceived as long as they can control every aspect of what they view as your sad and unworthy little life.
So the more vexing question—and the rude awakening—is this: Why do so many self-identified conservatives play along with a media machine that is already 95 percent in the Democrats’ corner? The list is long, and includes many big-name Republican officials who have taken a particularly hostile stance against any real investigation into voter fraud, including Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and scores of other supposedly conservative members of Congress.
As Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway recently pointed out, there is “a big disconnect between most of ‘conservative’ blue checkmark Twitter and the bulk of average Americans on the right” regarding the existence of election fraud. No question about that.
In addition to GOP officials, lots of self-identified conservative pundits have rejected concerns about voter fraud in this most bizarre of elections. Popular American Conservative writer Rod Dreher, among others, has mocked those who challenge the election results.
Why is it so important to these conservatives that every single American aligns with a propaganda machine that is now almost completely anti-thought? At the very least, they should understand the stakes of allowing massive electoral oddities to go unexamined. They should be especially unsettled about the loss of trust in our electoral process rather than joining with the left in dismissing so many concerned citizens as kooks.
In short, why are they so willing to accept abnormalities as normal?
One cannot get directly into the heads and hearts of any self-identified conservative who dismisses the possibility of any significant election fraud in 2020. But we should at least try to figure out this riddle because the future of election integrity—and therefore, freedom—depends on it. Why not investigate? Here are just five possibilities.
Possibility 1: They really believe the election was fair and that any questions about fraud should go unaddressed now and in the future. I think we can dismiss this one. They probably aren’t that detached from reality. If they were sincere, they would at least want an investigation to alleviate the massive amounts of distrust poisoning society.
They also exhibit a huge double standard by rejecting an immediate follow-up investigation while accepting four solid years of Democrats’ non-stop obstruction of Congress with the “Russian collusion” hoax after the 2016 election.
Possibility 2: They feel that there were indeed abnormalities and insecure voting, but since they don’t see clear proof, they think the election should go unchallenged. I understand concerns about perceptions, about conservatives looking like sore losers going forward. But the stakes are too high. And it’s odd that conservatives must ask no questions after just a few weeks of the craziest election in American history, while Democrats could proceed for four solid years of fake claims of “Russian interference in the 2016 election.”
But this self-inflicted double standard goes far deeper. If we don’t allow the wild abnormalities of 2020 to go without scrutiny, how in the world can we ever have any free and fair elections going forward? The answer is: we cannot because we will have institutionalized the abnormalities by letting them go.
If nothing else, conservatives must all be on board with addressing the disastrous crisis of trust this election has produced. The only way to do that is by conducting a thorough and transparent investigation into every aspect of this election. Why not give this election even 10 percent of the focus and time the Democrats gave the 2016 election?
Possibility 3: They have something to hide. Just ponder the depth of the rot and swamp gas in Washington as well as Communist China’s deep roots there. Covering up something fishy is usually the motive behind the massive denials of fraud and gaslighting that have saturated social media since the election.
We all know in our gut that our institutions have been badly corrupted. Election fraud is a no-brainer for the shameless and the corrupt. So we can’t rule out this possibility.
Possibility 4: They were never conservatives to begin with. Obviously, this is the case with the “Lincoln Project” and its corps of Never Trumpers. They’ve now proven no true allegiance to constitutional principles, and have joined the left in calling for revenge on all Trump supporters.
Campaigning to put your perceived enemies into gulags is not exactly a conservative principle. But we can ask the same question of those who seem less extremist such as former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan: Was he ever a real conservative to begin with? Or he is an opportunist who found a convenient host in the Republican Party?
In any event, it’s pointless not to expect a big disconnect between “conservative” elites and most conservative Americans. After all, the Marxist forces that gained a strong foothold in the Democrat Party since 1968 have made a point of affecting the GOP as well. We’re only just noticing.
Possibility 5: They are saturated with status anxiety or simply feel personal pressure to make nice with a Harris-Biden administration. The most obvious possibility is that they feel career pressure to establish bona fides with the perceived winner. In short, they’re scared.
I think this garden-variety cowardice most likely explains the self-identified conservatives who join in the scapegoating of Trump’s supporters. We can even detect this herd instinct in televangelist Pat Robertson’s claim that Biden won fair and square. Having been the butt of ridicule in the past, perhaps the aging Robertson is aching for a pat on the back from his erstwhile enemies.
No one is immune from that human frailty. There is a yearning to retain a sense of relevance, even in a new and hostile order, while at the same time pretending to espouse one’s adopted principles. Too often, the center can’t hold, and venal interests win out over principles.
In the end, every American of good will should be committed to restoring trust in the election process, if that’s still possible. We should have all been interested in getting an accurate count, no matter who won in the end. That doesn’t mean re-counting votes that could be bogus. It means auditing votes, investigating voting processes, and doing everything possible to restore public trust in elections.
Otherwise, abnormality becomes the “new normal” and self-governance is lost. It’s tragic that so many so-called conservatives have refused to do anything to even try to restore that trust.
Commie-Rats will never, ever allow Election reforms. They have lived off of fraud for over 60 years, they are not going to stop now, just when they have achieved their goal. The goal is to have the ability to steal whatever elections they would like whenever they like.
They believe that there is nothing we can do about it except revolt, and they are confident we won’t do that.
The media and deep state can NOT allow any talk of “voter fraud.” It must be complete and absolute denial and ridicule.
To admit even the slightest potential for fraud would break-open the dam of suspicion, and entirely wash away their legitimacy and power.
America invades other countries to “impose democracy.” What would Americans do if they realized their own country was not the “democracy” they thought it was?
When people stop believing the governing ethos - you get things like the collapse of the Soviet Union.
GA Runoff election was compromised when Jovan Pulitzer had his team connect to an active polling machine used in the GA Senate Runoff elections. That voids the Fed Certification of the machines. It affects Pelosi, McConnell, and Kemp along with the other Governors, Senators, and Representatives elected by the 6 battleground and 31 other states that use the Dominion malware.
Governors, Senators, and Reps who were elected in the past 6 years using Dominion, etc., machines and SmartMatic malware produce UNLAWFUL elections due to connecting to the iNet.
6. They just cannot fathom that any political party would do the kind of fraud we have found in 2020.
I have encountered such persons. They just cannot believe either party would CHEAT like that.
What is wrong with taking actions to only allow legal votes?
OK, Stella.....once again.
Human beings are bags of emotions walking around.
You want to know why things are the way they are?
Because human beings are bags of emotions walking around.
Fear.
Fear of not having food.
Fear of dying.
Fear of getting sick.
Fear of getting hurt.
Fear of being alone.
Fear of children’s future.
On and on and on.....
Communism/socialism?
Baloney.
Moslems?
Baloney.
Human emotions.
It’s a good plan until it isn’t.
At this point, there may be no avoiding civil unrest from one side or the other. Yes, Aunt Teefa and the Black Olives Matter would riot in the streets if a remedy were undertaken... we’re used to that by now and know their tactics. What maybe these cowardly judges and political hacks should have been thinking about, is the kind of damage that can be caused by those who don’t riot at the drop of a hat; those who’ve repressed the impulse to start cutting throats and stretching necks for such a long time.
I’m convinced that, without some sort of redress to the obvious soft-coup, the cork isn’t going back in the bottle.
Regardless of whether you choose any of these options 1 to 6 and I’m partial toward three - they’re all bought out by the Chinese communists
The time is now this is the place this is the time in history were going to open up all the doors and cover all the blankets the rugs the cracks and look at every single vote whether it’s legal or not and if it’s illegal why it’s illegal how it got to be there who put it there and the whole 9 yards!
Clearly were dragging almost all Democrats and most Republicans in kicking and screaming into this very important analysis that’s going to take place
We’ve all remembered since the way back days of yesteryear in the 40s 50s and 60s election is being stolen Nixon versus Kennedy in 1960 is a perfect example and then Johnson a few years later
We’ve all remembered 1 million times sitting there when the Republican wins then all of a sudden the Democrats find boxes of ballots here and there and everywhere over the next two or three or four weeks or three months and then finally they come up with just enough votes that the Republican loses
Nope sorry the cats out of the bag now
The toothpaste is out of the tube
It is very clear now two months after the election that this was trumps master plan from the very beginning and he knew all of this was going to go down this year given the level of desperation of the Democrats and the media to try to get rid of him
I mean come on!
We all had to suffer through Russia Russia Russia Russia for three straight years and then as soon as it was put up or shut up time in the pathetic room your head came out and look like a scared little school boy what did they do? They pivoted right to impeachment and Ukraine were horror of horrors !!
Biden is actually the one taking the billions of dollars of corrupt money
On a wider note we’ve also seen Clinton Comey Brennan and all these scumbags commit serial Felonise and completely get away with it and never ever face justice
This is the time this is the place where we’re taking back our nation
Let the chips fall where they may
Hi.
Every outlet, corrupt corporate media, Hollywood, social media, Big tech, education etc. are saying there was not ANY election fraud.
As I watch the videos of election fraud...
Kinda like the tanks behind Baghdad Bob rolling into Baghdad. “There are no Americans in Baghdad...”. On camera.
5.56mm
No but what the, extend are hoping for is to stir up enough anger by antifa and blm that there will be riots if the election gets ri g htfully overturned. They have a,ready scared the gutless sc into doing nothing
Exactly....As they see it - “voter fraud” is not only possible, but actually NECESSARY, if that’s the case.
Whatever happened to, “We must investigate because of the seriousness of the charges?”??????..............🙄
At this point in the story I’m about ready to skip to the chapter where Trump invokes the Insurrection act.
The problem I see:
Given the current situation-
Half the nation believes there was voter fraud.
Half the nation believes that Biden did not win.
The Courts will not hear the evidence.
The Media will not investigate.
Nothing is being done to exonerate the election.
Everyone is Told to bend over and take it.
What options do we have?
It’s not election fraud when the DEMs and GOPe both benefit by it
Is Marc Elias still breathing?
Heck I worked since 1996 to get Voter ID passed into law in Texas. Who fought us? Democrats. Why? The answer is OBVIOUS!
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