Problem Is Worse Than Vote Fraud — I have friends who are taking issue with my claim that the results of the Nov. 7 should not be attributed to vote fraud.
I get it. Our elections are not trustworthy and neither are those in charge.
Especially damning, is that those running things do not care that we think this. They laugh at long-followed mores regarding good government. In Delaware County, Pa., they are fighting right-to-know requests that the state agency in charge of such things ordered be accepted. They are trying to end minority oversight on the election board.
Once upon a time these things would have caused bipartisan outrage. Now, most voters either are unaware they are happening or, far more frightening, indifferent to their consequences.
I think the former was the reason last week. Democrat turnout in my precinct was huge and Republican average. In-person voting was neck and neck, and assuming the 37 mail-in ballots went as expected it would mean the Ds probably won.
These Democrats, many of whom I know, are not bad people.
So, why would they vote so brazenly against their interests?
Why would they vote for people who say they are going to make your sons eunuchs and sterilize your daughters so you will never have grandkids, and you can’t stop us?
Why would they vote for dangerous streets and gigantic tax hikes?
My friends can’t believe they would, hence instinctively assume vote fraud.
That’s a mistake. It was messaging. These Democrats had been lied to or left uninformed about what was at stake, and they were lied to about the Republican positions.
Election integrity is a real issue but the priority better be messaging.
A strong and knowledgable people can force government change no matter how rigged an election.
A weak and ignorant people, however, will willingly and submissively vote for their sons to be eunuchs and daughters to be sterile.
They will willingly vote for their destruction.
I’d like to point out that 70-percent of the students at Sun Valley High School apparently believe the reality of biological sex should no longer be recognized.
Those who care about the future better do what they can to change minds and rile up the indifferent.
This means getting them to vote and explaining what’s at stake.
In other news popular, long-used, effective and inexpensive over-the-counter drugs like NyQuil and Benadryl are being removed from pharmacies.
Problem Is Worse Than Vote Fraud
Bill, I am really glad you are writing about this issue. It is very easy and comforting to claim the reason that elections are lost is voter fraud (and I am sure there is some, just not anywhere near what some people claim). What you saw with your own eyes in your polling place speaks volumes. Those who want to take the easy road of voter fraud are saying to you who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes.
We need to move forward. Ideas, messaging, and great messengers are what is going to change the dynamic, not the old standby of “voter fraud.” Its going to be hard, its going to be time consuming, its going to require getting candidates, surrogates, and just folks to write editorials who can intelligently and thoughtfully present ideas in a way that doesn’t turn off those who are willing to listen.
Well said, FL
Bill – This may have been your best piece of the year. You have encapsulated the heart of the problem with the selection process. Republican voter apathy combined with party leadership’s failure to get the Conservative message out in the face of the mid-messaging Leviathan that is the Left, well we all know the rest.
Thanks Andy
I agree, Bill. Claiming fraud is a knee-jerk reaction. It’s understandable, given our electoral history since 2020. But early voting, massive mail-in voting are here to stay, or for the time being, at least.
No, the failure was Republicans sitting out, and the Left using abortion as an issue, especially in races for offices that have nothing to do with abortion. Here in Northampton County, we had a race for Common Pleas judge, in which the Democrat kept painting his Republican opponent as “anti-abortion”. But Common Pleas won’t ever hear a case related to abortion. Doesn’t matter. To the average overgrown adolescent who is the average citizen, hearing the word “anti-abortion” was enough.
The Republicans are just incapable of countering the Left’s messages. And it starts at the top, with the national party committee, and runs down to the state and county committees. They’re incompetent, or complacent in their positions, or both.
If the party were a sports franchise, we’d have fired the GM, head coach, and director of player development log ago.
–If the party were a sports franchise, we’d have fired the GM, head coach, and director of player development log ago.–
Great analogy.