Degringolade

Post-Impressionism / Tom Thomson/ Northern Lights

Mike and I got a bit spirited a couple of week ago when I mentioned the possibility that the election of 2020 might have been less than honest.  I have pondering this for a while and I want to take some time to go over my thoughts.

1.  Trump needed to lose.  He was an astonishingly bad President and not a very good man.  Truthfully, he was one of the worst presidents ever and was in the process of breaking the country.  He had to go.

2. Unfortunately, the Democrats are becoming the party that nominates people that actually make Trump look like a viable option.  Hillary and Joe are two incredibly corrupt hacks that represent the elite status quo and despite all their protestations to the contrary, they appear to despise and sneer at the lower classes and lie to them shamelessly while currying the favor of who they perceive as the elites.

3. #1 and #2 above lead me to believe that we are truly fucked for the next three years and seven or so months.  So, Let me make it clear here, I do not have a dog in this fight.

4. Now the part that pissed Mike off.  I mentioned that the elections in Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia might have some serious irregularities.  Michael correctly pointed out that there is nothing to be done about it.  Which is true.  

5. I am not in any way, shape, or form suggesting that Fuckwad the first be brought back to the oval office by any means.  Fuckwad the second is equally incompetent and subserviant to the elite (just different ones).  Bringing Fuckwad the first back would be a nearly instant death to the Republic.  Fuckwad the second will at least allow for a chance (albeit small) that we can work our way out of the mess we have gotten ourselves into.

6. #’s 1-5 are merely prolegomena now we get down to the basics.

7. We are a Republic that uses the tools of Democracy to affect the selection of our leadership.  The country as a whole is governed by this leadership with the laws created by the Congress, vetted by the Judiciary, and executed by the executive (at least in theory, things have been muddied considerably in that timespan)

8. But, in my reading of the aforementioned constitution, the states and the states alone have responsibility for elections.  This has been watered down a bit with the requirements of the various voter’s rights acts that have been passed in my lifetime.  BTW, I heartily approve of these bills).

9. It is my firm opinion that participation in elections should not be made simple and should be confined strictly to those who have spent the time and effort to prove that they are legal citizens of the United States of America and the Precinct where they reside.  I do not believe that the vote should be extended to non-citizens or expatriates.

10. It is my firmly held belief that there has never been a US election that was free of some type of election fraud.  Pure and simple, straight and true.  Democracy lends itself to such things.  It is part of the system and cannot be purged, it can only be suppressed to a level where it is inconsequential.  In the past, the two parties were equally guilty of the practice; they did tend to differ in techniques, with the Democrats going with ballot box stuffing and the Republicans specializing in voter suppression.

11. Now that groundwork has been laid, I will get down to the brass tacks of what I was trying to say up in Kingston.

12. I think that the circumstances of a seriously imcompetent executive branch, coupled with the advent of a pandemic (whether COVID actually rates as such is a subject for another discussion) gave rise to conditions that allowed the Democrat’s preferred method of voter fraud to have a serious premium over the Republican’s preferred methodology.  

13. By this circumstance, I believe that the laws and voting methodology were skewed in favor of the Democratic party in a couple of key states.

14. I think that the results of the election should be examined carefully.  This is not to lead to a reinstatement of Fuckwad I, but to establish if there was an imbalance in voting methodology that allowed one method of voter suppression to succeed in key state elections that changed the result of the election from one miserable candidate to another miserable candidate.

15. I do think that Fuckwad I should go back to activities related to bilking unsuspecting fools by means just short of fraud.  I do believe that Fuckwad II should serve out his term and go the fuck away.

16. These next three years are going to be shit on a plate.