Elections Have Consequences; Stolen Elections Have Catastrophes. By J.B. Shruk.
“Donald Trump will break the world,” they lied.
Well, they manipulated election rules to certify suspicious vote totals that preposterously portrayed senile Joe Biden as the most popularly elected president in history; censored and locked up anyone who complained; and covered up their crimes with J6 show trials drenched in untruths meant to hide from history the Uniparty’s underhanded machinations in outright stealing a presidential election.
The whole mess was so banana-republic-yucky that Biden was inaugurated behind barbed wire and a show of military force befitting the small junta who attended the successful coup’s celebration. …
For over two years, the State-controlled press and the permanent political class have accused anyone who challenges the ruling regime’s legitimacy of being an “election denier” pushing the “big lie” that the 2020 race was rigged. That resort to low-minded name-calling always seems like the “big tell” that they know that the people know that they’re full of it. …
Here’s an idea: when more than half the country believes that “cheating likely affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election” and that future election outcomes cannot be trusted, then that crisis in confidence reflects catastrophic government failure. In functioning republics with reliable voting systems, allegations of electoral malfeasance are a “big deal.” When nothing less than the people’s faith in the democratic process is at stake, then representative government will not survive unless the people perceive that process to be fair, transparent, and above reproach. When they instead judge elections as corrupt, manipulated, and unverifiable, the blame for such disastrous public perception lies entirely with government officials. …
In 2020, when COVID’s ongoing “state of emergency” conveniently provided a pretext for making sweeping changes to the ways in which votes were cast and collected, irrespective of binding statutory law, mail-in ballots with scant security checks or signature verifications flooded battleground states in Democrat-controlled zones that tilted Trump victories to Biden victories days after the actual election.
During that days-long window, ballots were lost and found; election workers inexplicably stopped and started their work; and numerous allegations of improper collection, derelict verification, unlawful voting, mixed sorting (where suspect ballots were separated from mail-in envelopes before verification but nonetheless included with good ballots), and double counting were never resolved.
Still, pundits pretended everything was perfectly normal, despite the reality that, among global peers, America alone is incapable of tabulating its elections promptly or providing results that can be transparently verified and reproduced.
Rather than investigating any of these issues, Secretaries of State looked past clear violations of election law and testimonial evidence alleging various instances of fraud to certify vote counts; state and federal courts, deferring to those bureaucratic certifications despite deficiencies, refused to investigate the matters any further; and the Supreme Court ran like a frightened child when a “case or controversy” of the highest national concern finally reached its doors. So fearful, apparently, of replaying some version of the contentious judicial events that settled the 2000 election between Bush and Gore (or so terrified of the left’s certain campaign of terror arriving outside their own families’ homes), the courts threw up their hands and permitted perhaps the least trusted election in American history to be rubber-stamped as valid. …
When a majority of Americans see election fraud and a near unanimity of lawmakers see none, then America’s ruling Uniparty is willfully blind.
When Americans’ efforts to pursue all available legal remedies are unceremoniously quashed at every turn, then justice is no longer blind. When Congress decides to ignore all the evidence for 2020 vote fraud and instead pumps out years of propaganda about an “insurrection” that never happened, then more Americans have their eyes wide open and can finally see. …
Trust is a tricky thing to restore. Once it’s gone, systems just break.
If Trump is arrested on bogus charges, it will be one more step in a predictable downward path. Sad.
Tell a lie, and the consequences can snowball into more lies. Steal an election just once, and look what is happening.
