The passivity of the electorate to the transparent fraud worries me far more than the fraud itself. The lack of outrage sends a powerful signal of weakness, hesitancy and moral cowardice that cannot fail to embolden the regime to worse in the future. And as the numbers change (due to immigration, both legal and illegal) the charge of voter suppression will, be used to criminalise those who object to electoral fraud.
The regime is unlikely to ever establish a formal one-party monopoly. An opposition that can never hope to see a fair election will be useful as a safety valve for discontent but will not pose any challenge to the regime.
The FTX connection is as revealing as it is fitting. The intelligence community attempted to bring down Trump when he began asking questions about the relationship between the Beltway and the gangsters running Ukraine. Now Ukraine is being used to further criminalise politics within the USA itself. It is only a matter of time before Ukranian standards of governance are applied within the USA itself. The suppression if dissent via Big Tech de-platforming and the vexatious prosecution and abusive incarceration of the Jan 6 protestors indicates that the US is being primed for a further descent into authoritarian rule.
Nobody I know will even entertain the possibility of fraud. They're like the doctors who are perpetually puzzled about why young healthy people suddenly drop dead. There's a very easy solution in front of them, but they ignore it.
I think the last time you and I talked, I said that the midterms would tell us everything we need to know. Well, now we know that democrats will cheat in every election going forward because there are no consequences for doing so.
There's no downside to continuing to vote, but the real revolution will be a revolution of lifestyle.
Get you. For normies the standard narrative of electoral soundness is set. Facts are irrelevant. So long as they are not confronted by it personally, they can ignore it all.
As reality sets in for realists the challenge will be to resist demoralisation.
I think your disappointment is rooted in a romanticized version of American history. We imagine a kind of American revolutionary fervor where patriots rise up en masse 1775 style. But that's not history. A minority of Americans participated in or even supported the revolution. If it hadn't been for the wealthy American gentry, no revolution would've occurred.
At present, too many people w money still feel they have too much to lose by rebelling against the Crown in DC. Sadly, things will have to get much worse. And by worse i mean worse for the wealthy. Until some faction of the DC criminal Cartel breaks off and supports independence, nothing will happen. And the poor souls rotting in the dc gulag will be multiplied.
Could not agree more. The American revolution was led by colonial aristocrats, gentry and the haute bourgeoisie. Their equivalents today will only break with Washington when they estimate that it is in their best interests to do so. My best guess is that this will come as a result of a crisis involving the dollar and the bond market brought on by developments overseas. Many very good people will suffer until then. The apparent indifference of so many to the plight of the Jan 6 protestors is a scandal.
The silver lining in the quasi-Maoist outrage that is woke is that it must send a chill down the spines of the lower and mid-level elites. Thet face the imminent prospect of having to compete to retain their places and the odds over time are not to their personal or familial advantage. But change is inevitable; the present situation is unsustainable over any great length of time.
I wrote this the other day: "Perhaps the longest and most significant impact of the “pandemic” is going to be the widespread embrace of voting by mail and early voting. The more you get away from the “show up and cast your ballot on election day” model, the easier it will be to manipulate the vote totals. When voting happens earlier and counting takes longer, it adds opportunity for shenanigans."
Mask mandates and lockdowns pale in comparison to a complete reengineering of the electoral system to lock in the means of cheating.
A long time ago when my grandparents were young, they went to vote in a city controlled by the "Democratic machine". Upon arriving at the polling place, they were given ballots which were already filled-in with the names of the Democrat candidates. They refused them, and demanded fresh ballots. They were refused. "That's what you get" they were told. They went home without voting.
Shortly after arriving home, the phone rang. My grandfather answered. It was his brother, who was a small businessman with a shop in the city. "You have to go back and vote!" he told my grandfather. "They told me if you don't go back and vote for The Party, they'll burn my shop to the ground tonight." My grandparents did as they were told.
The Democrat party is, and always has been, a criminal organization.
"But if they can game the system to permanently deny the Republicans effective control of anything consequential, then they’ve basically done the same thing while still maintaining the outward appearance of legitimacy.."
We need to stop using these terms, Democrat and Republican. It truly is a Uniparty. The Republican Party is dead for all practical purposes (and it's disappointing btw that Trump just announced another run to head up this moribund party that will *never* allow him to be the 2024 candidate).
First step in recovery is accepting our dire situation. Federal elections are mainly useless kabuki theater. At best there will be Red states that manage to hold clean elections and send some relatively honest patriots to DC but even that will aid the Uniparty in its charade. It will never be enough to change anything in dc and eventually honest men w any brains will stop beating them against the dc wall and stop running for federal office. Salvation clearly doesn't lie in federal elections. And certainly not the Republican party. A new party comprised exclusively of people committed to telling the truth for as long as permitted about the gangsters in DC and the growing tyranny is better than the fool's errand of taking over the GOP, especially now that we know elections are a sham.
Beyond truth telling, our best hope now is to retrench in the Red states that haven't yet been infiltrated too deeply by the California Strategy. We must have as many states that increasingly can stand up against DC and stand together. A Red state that is economically, fiscally, and morally strong is a powerful refuge against federal tyranny. DC doesn't have the means to force its will on a state outside of fiscal and economic tools.
Lastly, this gangster government in dc will collapse and take the country down w it. It's an iron rule that all corrupt, criminal governments eventually fail due to inherent self sabotage. If we're lucky the collapse will look like the fall of the Berlin wall. If not so lucky...Spain 1930s.
I agree with everything that you write but would like to amplify a point you make. You refer to moral strength...this is the most important part IMO.
Politics is simply one part of the equation and perhaps the easiest part at that. Politics at a state level can never work to save anyone or anything worth saving unless we successfully fortify cohesion and pro-social forces of all kinds at a community level. Mutual loyalty, respect and co-operation amongst the grassroots is necessary for long-term survival.
Running a country is hard. Since at least 2004 most Republicans have been perfectly happy to play the Washington Generals to the Democrats’ Harlem Globetrotters. That way they can just say it’s all the Dems’ fault without having to actually do anything themselves. Sometimes they even get to go to nice parties in DC.
No, that's the brainwash narrative the Uniparty wants you to believe.
Look at South Florida. According to the brainwash, all those millions of "latinx" voters should be voting Blue and make it a lock on the state, but that hasn't happened. Same thing in Texas.
But so what? As Sundance has pointed out, voting is rapidly being replaced by 'ballot gathering.' The DC crooks figured out that trying to win over "voters" was a fool's game. So they no longer bother. Notice how many candidates since 2020 don't even bother to campaign or modify their policies. Why bother? They simply print up the requisite ballots and deposit them for counting at the appropriate time to get the victory. It may not work everywhere but they don't need everywhere. They just need enough. 2022 is the awful, bitter lesson that they have enough now in enough places to ensure control going forward. There will never be another president they don't approve of (exhibit A. Desantis being packaged for 2024).
Going forward, the DC criminals will work assiduously to expand their corruption of every, remaining state election process to ensure that no state can vote in anyone not preapproved. That's the battle we face now.
In other words don't worry about groups who vote disproportionately democrat because they're still outnumbered by people who don't..for now. If demographic transformation didn't work for shoring up voting numbers, then they wouldn't do it.
The point iis that these groups that the Blues have been importing under their assumption that they would naturally vote Blue has proven wrong. When they see how crazy the Blue policies are they vote Red or dont vote. The Blues realized, however, that these imports serve a better purpose. They s er rve the brainwash narrative that so called Blue cities overwhelmingly vote Blue which allows them to manufacture ballots regardless of voting.
In other words, the Uniparty isn't playing the voting game any longer. They are playing the ballot counting game and that doesn't need actual voters, just corrupt voter rolls, mass mailing, and corrupt counting procedures. They continue the flood of illegals for other reasons and helps them destroy the social fabric etc...
The battle is to stop this insane mail in balloting. Anything other than same day in person voting is fraud factory.
It hasn't been proven wrong. Every survey, poll, or exit poll I've ever seen has shown these groups vote disproportionately for democrats or democrat-like policies. It may not be 100% of course, but it doesn't need to be. You import enough of them and they will inevitably tip the scales, especially if you think in terms of decades or generations.
The passivity of the electorate to the transparent fraud worries me far more than the fraud itself. The lack of outrage sends a powerful signal of weakness, hesitancy and moral cowardice that cannot fail to embolden the regime to worse in the future. And as the numbers change (due to immigration, both legal and illegal) the charge of voter suppression will, be used to criminalise those who object to electoral fraud.
The regime is unlikely to ever establish a formal one-party monopoly. An opposition that can never hope to see a fair election will be useful as a safety valve for discontent but will not pose any challenge to the regime.
The FTX connection is as revealing as it is fitting. The intelligence community attempted to bring down Trump when he began asking questions about the relationship between the Beltway and the gangsters running Ukraine. Now Ukraine is being used to further criminalise politics within the USA itself. It is only a matter of time before Ukranian standards of governance are applied within the USA itself. The suppression if dissent via Big Tech de-platforming and the vexatious prosecution and abusive incarceration of the Jan 6 protestors indicates that the US is being primed for a further descent into authoritarian rule.
Nobody I know will even entertain the possibility of fraud. They're like the doctors who are perpetually puzzled about why young healthy people suddenly drop dead. There's a very easy solution in front of them, but they ignore it.
I think the last time you and I talked, I said that the midterms would tell us everything we need to know. Well, now we know that democrats will cheat in every election going forward because there are no consequences for doing so.
There's no downside to continuing to vote, but the real revolution will be a revolution of lifestyle.
Get you. For normies the standard narrative of electoral soundness is set. Facts are irrelevant. So long as they are not confronted by it personally, they can ignore it all.
As reality sets in for realists the challenge will be to resist demoralisation.
@Philip
I think your disappointment is rooted in a romanticized version of American history. We imagine a kind of American revolutionary fervor where patriots rise up en masse 1775 style. But that's not history. A minority of Americans participated in or even supported the revolution. If it hadn't been for the wealthy American gentry, no revolution would've occurred.
At present, too many people w money still feel they have too much to lose by rebelling against the Crown in DC. Sadly, things will have to get much worse. And by worse i mean worse for the wealthy. Until some faction of the DC criminal Cartel breaks off and supports independence, nothing will happen. And the poor souls rotting in the dc gulag will be multiplied.
Could not agree more. The American revolution was led by colonial aristocrats, gentry and the haute bourgeoisie. Their equivalents today will only break with Washington when they estimate that it is in their best interests to do so. My best guess is that this will come as a result of a crisis involving the dollar and the bond market brought on by developments overseas. Many very good people will suffer until then. The apparent indifference of so many to the plight of the Jan 6 protestors is a scandal.
The silver lining in the quasi-Maoist outrage that is woke is that it must send a chill down the spines of the lower and mid-level elites. Thet face the imminent prospect of having to compete to retain their places and the odds over time are not to their personal or familial advantage. But change is inevitable; the present situation is unsustainable over any great length of time.
Great overview explains a lot. Democracy is great, ea? https://frederickrsmith.substack.com/p/democracy-for-dummies-5c7
I wrote this the other day: "Perhaps the longest and most significant impact of the “pandemic” is going to be the widespread embrace of voting by mail and early voting. The more you get away from the “show up and cast your ballot on election day” model, the easier it will be to manipulate the vote totals. When voting happens earlier and counting takes longer, it adds opportunity for shenanigans."
Mask mandates and lockdowns pale in comparison to a complete reengineering of the electoral system to lock in the means of cheating.
A long time ago when my grandparents were young, they went to vote in a city controlled by the "Democratic machine". Upon arriving at the polling place, they were given ballots which were already filled-in with the names of the Democrat candidates. They refused them, and demanded fresh ballots. They were refused. "That's what you get" they were told. They went home without voting.
Shortly after arriving home, the phone rang. My grandfather answered. It was his brother, who was a small businessman with a shop in the city. "You have to go back and vote!" he told my grandfather. "They told me if you don't go back and vote for The Party, they'll burn my shop to the ground tonight." My grandparents did as they were told.
The Democrat party is, and always has been, a criminal organization.
And Republicans are their enthusiastic collaborators.
"But if they can game the system to permanently deny the Republicans effective control of anything consequential, then they’ve basically done the same thing while still maintaining the outward appearance of legitimacy.."
We need to stop using these terms, Democrat and Republican. It truly is a Uniparty. The Republican Party is dead for all practical purposes (and it's disappointing btw that Trump just announced another run to head up this moribund party that will *never* allow him to be the 2024 candidate).
First step in recovery is accepting our dire situation. Federal elections are mainly useless kabuki theater. At best there will be Red states that manage to hold clean elections and send some relatively honest patriots to DC but even that will aid the Uniparty in its charade. It will never be enough to change anything in dc and eventually honest men w any brains will stop beating them against the dc wall and stop running for federal office. Salvation clearly doesn't lie in federal elections. And certainly not the Republican party. A new party comprised exclusively of people committed to telling the truth for as long as permitted about the gangsters in DC and the growing tyranny is better than the fool's errand of taking over the GOP, especially now that we know elections are a sham.
Beyond truth telling, our best hope now is to retrench in the Red states that haven't yet been infiltrated too deeply by the California Strategy. We must have as many states that increasingly can stand up against DC and stand together. A Red state that is economically, fiscally, and morally strong is a powerful refuge against federal tyranny. DC doesn't have the means to force its will on a state outside of fiscal and economic tools.
Lastly, this gangster government in dc will collapse and take the country down w it. It's an iron rule that all corrupt, criminal governments eventually fail due to inherent self sabotage. If we're lucky the collapse will look like the fall of the Berlin wall. If not so lucky...Spain 1930s.
I agree with everything that you write but would like to amplify a point you make. You refer to moral strength...this is the most important part IMO.
Politics is simply one part of the equation and perhaps the easiest part at that. Politics at a state level can never work to save anyone or anything worth saving unless we successfully fortify cohesion and pro-social forces of all kinds at a community level. Mutual loyalty, respect and co-operation amongst the grassroots is necessary for long-term survival.
Running a country is hard. Since at least 2004 most Republicans have been perfectly happy to play the Washington Generals to the Democrats’ Harlem Globetrotters. That way they can just say it’s all the Dems’ fault without having to actually do anything themselves. Sometimes they even get to go to nice parties in DC.
Although I agree, changing election rules is a race against time because demographics will eventually give the democrats one-party rule anyway.
No, that's the brainwash narrative the Uniparty wants you to believe.
Look at South Florida. According to the brainwash, all those millions of "latinx" voters should be voting Blue and make it a lock on the state, but that hasn't happened. Same thing in Texas.
But so what? As Sundance has pointed out, voting is rapidly being replaced by 'ballot gathering.' The DC crooks figured out that trying to win over "voters" was a fool's game. So they no longer bother. Notice how many candidates since 2020 don't even bother to campaign or modify their policies. Why bother? They simply print up the requisite ballots and deposit them for counting at the appropriate time to get the victory. It may not work everywhere but they don't need everywhere. They just need enough. 2022 is the awful, bitter lesson that they have enough now in enough places to ensure control going forward. There will never be another president they don't approve of (exhibit A. Desantis being packaged for 2024).
Going forward, the DC criminals will work assiduously to expand their corruption of every, remaining state election process to ensure that no state can vote in anyone not preapproved. That's the battle we face now.
In other words don't worry about groups who vote disproportionately democrat because they're still outnumbered by people who don't..for now. If demographic transformation didn't work for shoring up voting numbers, then they wouldn't do it.
No, re read the comment.
The point iis that these groups that the Blues have been importing under their assumption that they would naturally vote Blue has proven wrong. When they see how crazy the Blue policies are they vote Red or dont vote. The Blues realized, however, that these imports serve a better purpose. They s er rve the brainwash narrative that so called Blue cities overwhelmingly vote Blue which allows them to manufacture ballots regardless of voting.
In other words, the Uniparty isn't playing the voting game any longer. They are playing the ballot counting game and that doesn't need actual voters, just corrupt voter rolls, mass mailing, and corrupt counting procedures. They continue the flood of illegals for other reasons and helps them destroy the social fabric etc...
The battle is to stop this insane mail in balloting. Anything other than same day in person voting is fraud factory.
It hasn't been proven wrong. Every survey, poll, or exit poll I've ever seen has shown these groups vote disproportionately for democrats or democrat-like policies. It may not be 100% of course, but it doesn't need to be. You import enough of them and they will inevitably tip the scales, especially if you think in terms of decades or generations.
Again, the problem is not voters it's ballots. Where mail in ballot harvesting is banned it was a red tsunami.