Posted on 02/10/2021 6:53:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Since Nov. 3rd, one particular line has been repeated almost to the point of becoming a meme: “There will never be another honest election in this country.”
I’ve seen it in a dozen articles I’ve worked on for AT, and at least twice that many times elsewhere. It wouldn’t be going too far to say that it has became a piece of received wisdom, along the lines of “Biden is the asterisk president”: there will never be another honest election in the U.S.
To some extent, this attitude is understandable, and you can’t blame people for holding it. I myself entertained similar thoughts in the wake of the electoral coup this past fall.
This reflects conservative defeatism. Unfortunately, the default position for most conservatives is to give up, retreat into the think tank and spend time tossing off remarks about how horrible our doom will be, mixed with attacks on anyone trying to stop it. It’s in times like this that this fatal, self-inflicted flaw becomes most evident.
But all the same, it’s wrong, and it’s wrong for a very apparent and simple human reason.
At first glance, the idea seems to have a lot going for it. As November 3rd clearly revealed (and Molly Ball and Time mag foolishly underlined), the electoral fraud machinery is immense and the Dems went to incredible effort and expense to put it together. So why would they use it only once? That would make no sense whatsoever. Surely, the Democrat’s theft machine is built for the long haul, like the Tammany machine of the 19th century or the Cook County machine of the 20th.
But there are number of reasons why it’s unlikely that it will ever be reused – at least not at the level it was last November. The first involves COVID-19.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Whistling past Jao Xiden’s basement...
There are many people saying “they will never vote again.”
That’s the problem with freepers-too many defeatists.
Author believes GOP legislatures in the swing states will act. Doubtful.
Secretary of State William Galvin could be close to putting his stamp on voting in Massachusetts. Galvin announced Tuesday he will introduce legislation that would make permanent mail-in voting and expanded early voting — measures put in place during the pandemic — as well as allowing for same-day voter registration and early voting in local elections.
The pandemic changes worked: A record 3,657,972 voted in November, with more than 1.5 million of those voting by mail and 844,000 early in-person.
"What we saw last year was that voting by mail was enormously popular," Galvin said in a statement. "While voting by mail may not always be used to the same extent at the pandemic finally ends, my office has heard from many voters who have made it clear that they want this option to remain available for all future elections."
The Democrats and their Media challenged the Republiwimps to a prison knife fight in 2020.
They lost or surrendered.
In the future, the Democrats will commit open vote fraud, the Media will smother any protests, and social media will silence any dissenters.
Repeal the 17th Amendment, that knife in the back of the Republic from that notorious anti-semite and racist scum, Woodrow Wilson.
The grass-roots, America First! members of the Republican Party must wrest control of the party from the Establishment wing and regulate them to their true allegiance to the DC UniParty.
Twirl your bowtie harder, J.R. Dunn, you loser.
I agree. See 11.
If they were in prison they would actually be the dims b/$@#.
Author believes GOP legislatures in the swing states will act. Doubtful.
I doubt the GOP (Gutless Other Party) will ever do anything that might upset the democrooks. Their biggest problem is how to make it look like they aren’t secondary to DNC wishes.
Republican controlled legislatures allowed the illegal voting in the first place.
Your metaphor works but not the way you seem to think.
I’ve been told, by people who would know, that there is almost never a prison knife fight.
What does happen now and then, unfortunately, is that some unsuspecting victim just gets snuck up on and shanked.
Then everyone who saw it happen didn’t see nothin’, and the guards...”what, was this place supposed to have some guards or something?”
It isn’t just the dems involved in electoral corruption. The GOP giddily jumped in to aid and abet it as well.
Read later.
When Stacey Abrams runs the elections in your state, that is a perfectly valid thought.
Feckless Kemp and Ratburger give her everything she wants.
True, but to be fair.... consistent betrayal does that to some people.
It’s sort of like the woman who stays with an abusive husband.
Voters now feel that they are locked and double locked out of the election process. It was a nagging suspicion for a very long time, but now it’s unarguably obvious.
Nothing and no one has proved that the election was honest or fair...nothing and no one has assured us that it will never happen again.
To make it worse, free speech (the ‘skeleton key’ to any sort of freedom) has been taken away.
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