I’m shifting with this article to a more tactical focus on the 2022 midterm elections. To be honest I, like many others, have become rather skeptical of the integrity of our election process, as both anecdotal and empirical evidence has continued to mount that suggests that U.S. election tampering not only reached an all-time high in 2020, but has been rampant at multiple levels for decades (which would at least in part explain why most of the leadership of both major political parties today is north of age 75 and been in politics for most of their adult lives).
And as much as I abhor political opinion polls as a gauge for true public sentiment (because I know how easy it can be for a pollster to elicit a desired response simply by wording questions in particular ways, and how they’ve become lazy and empty substitutes for actual politicking and journalism), I’m going to presume that there is at least some validity in the general favorability shift away from Democrats and toward Republicans, as the Biden administration, et. al., continue their anti-American governance regardless of the “consent of the governed.” I have never been a card-carrying member of a political party (and have no love for any), but since I find myself supporting nothing advocated by the Democratic Party, and only a little of for what the GOP claims to stand, the rest of this article will be about what I think we need to do to begin restoring America via the Republicans. I’m also going to fight the feeling that “we’ve been here before” with the Republican Party as the purported bulwark against massive government, and champions of individual liberty, states’ rights and limited republican (small r) government of, by, and for the People in accordance with our Declaration of Independence and national Constitution. (Let’s assume we’re NOT being gaslighted nor sedated yet again.)
All of this being said, this election may be our last chance to save whatever semblance of America may still remain within our current governmental and electoral systems. It is incumbent upon US—NOT career politicians—to do so. Just as those who have been seeking salvation from government for generations, and falling for the same platitudes and assurances that their lot in life will improve if they just vote for the same cast of characters ONE MORE TIME, we have allowed elected politicians who repeatedly talk a good game about dismantling big government “root and branch” to convince us (and more than once in my lifetime) that they will actually do all that they have promised once simply given the reins of power via party majorities in all branches of our government.
Given the two-party system in which we’ve had to operate lo these many years, we collectively need a much stronger and robust litmus test for candidates (AND incumbents) who fly their banners of public service under the GOP flag. At a minimum we need documented specifics on exactly how they intend to accomplish whatever “reforms” they are promising, working together and within the framework of what may amount to something less than a supermajority. (The Democrats have been able to do this to dismantle America—why can’t the Republicans?) Then, once elected, they need to demonstrate that they are listening to their constituents (and not consultants), and WE need to hold them accountable for what they have promised—no excuses, hedges, second, third, eighteenth… chances to make a career in politics; you either act on, and accomplish, what you promise or you’re out.
The closest I have come to seeing this come to fruition was the Contract with America in 1994. I wrote extensively about this in a previous article, as well as about how well this did in the House while dying on the vine in the Senate (with Republican majorities in both). And while I have no delusions that what has taken over 100 years to culminate as massive government socialism and fascism can be undone in a mere two-, four-, or even six-year term, we need to start the restoration and renewal of American principles somewhere. And we need fresh blood (especially in Washington D.C.) if it’s ever going to happen. And we need to ensure that anyone who campaigns on such a contract knows there will be negative consequences if they fail to uphold it.
As to election integrity: find out who, at your local level, has taken the mantle of verifying the actual ballot submissions from the 2020 election and the voter rolls by going door-to-door to talk to fellow citizens about how and whether they actually voted, and GET INVOLVED. This is a herculean effort to be sure, but grass-root and outside oversight of this process is the only sure way that this process can be cleaned up and properly maintained.
The bottom line is that this is on US. We need to be the agents of American strengthening and reform, by doing all we can to ensure that those we elect truly represent, and are willing to act upon, the promises they’ve made to win our votes. Our systems of government and elections is in serious disrepair, but are the only systems we still have. If we’re going to save the United States of America, we need to take more responsibility for the integrity and workability of those systems. If we don’t now, we will likely lose what little of these we still have left
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A radical new approach is what is needed on election integrity. At its simplest, cheating in elections is an attempt to subvert the will of the people. Subverting the will of the people and conducting fraudulent elections is tantamount to sedition or seditious conspiracy. The penalty for sedition is up to 20 years in prison. That is what needs to happen henceforth for fraudulent elections. Too many perps have been let off with too lenient sentences for stealing elections. Another option is to start equating crimes involving fraudulent elections as acts of treason. The penalty for that would be death. Real citizens are tired of these stolen elections and demand that it be stopped. Early indications in Arizona primaries are that fraud continues unabated. Ultimately, we may need a solution written into our first founding document that provides a cure:
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
Actually, it may turn out that the 2020 election was the last chance to safeguard our republic, since the reasons you mentioned have not all been corrected and two years remain for the destruction to continue, considering the allowance of Executive Actions has not been stopped.
We still have too many in the public who use terms to describe our country as a democracy, on the Republican side. That tells me that we have too many who still don’t understand that words have meaning. If our elected representatives can’t grasp that simple concept, what can you expect from them, from either side of the coin?
When you have those on our side who sway to the side of the Chamber of Commerce ideas, and fail to represent their real constituents, what makes you think that all of a sudden they will do what’s right for their constituents this time around?
I know I’ve said this before, and to very little fanfare, but the only way our political class will represent their constituents is when they actually fear the prospect of being ousted from office, and that means at the point of physical violence, if needed. Either that, or our political candidates take pledges to their constituency, on top of their oath of office, which too many have decided is passe, and just walk all over our respect for God, being who our country’s founding is based.
Without that idea, we have those we call RINOs, who have the tendency to line their pockets at our expense.
We can gain some ground in the arena of ideas, but if we still have a corrupt voting system, what have we really gained? If you allow someone to steal an election one time, what should you expect to happen the next time around? 2020 was not a one-off.
When you see the FBI labeling anyone who owns and displays a Gadsden Flag as a potential domestic terrorist, something has gone terribly wrong. That just happened, and is the latest in the assault against the American citizen. Now, patriots are the enemy.
It just might be time to start dealing with who is the real existential threat to our “Republic” and not have hopes over a midterm election that is yet to be decided. We let them get away with it. This is on us.
Cowards are in charge of our country, right now, and cowards will get their “useful idiots” to do anything to maintain power, including instruct the alphabets to go against the Republic.
We never seem to be able to adequately deal with cowards, like we should. They always seem to get away with their mischief.