What
Needs To Be - And Will Never Be - Done Next
So the 2018 Mid-Term Fraud is over and done with.
The fascists in the GOP keep the U.S. Senate but they lose the House of
Representatives. Unfortunately, that
will most likely mean that perpetual failure Nancy Pelosi will end up being
Speaker of the House once again. And if
you’re expecting her to somehow keep the Narcissist President Donald Trump in
line, you are delusional.
Nancy Pelosi is a power-monger.
She lords over power and leverage.
That is how she got to where she is today. I suspect that she will never do the right
thing as Speaker as long as she can leverage what she knows about Trump. And I’m not talking “leverage” in terms of
helping out America. I’m talking
“leverage” for her own sake. History has
already documented this from her first time as Speaker. She’s already outright
said that she will not support impeaching Trump, so if the
Dems in the House let her become speaker again, they are letting Trump prevail.
Some of the fascists in the GOP were
knocked out of power, but some
of the key offices that people wanted to see changed didn’t. And that’s really on the Dems and their
failure to deliver in those races. Don’t
sugar-coat it, Dems. You lost those
races. “Close” doesn’t count.
And now is the time when things need to be changed for the 2020
elections. Now. Not next year. Not in 2020.
If we want to make the 2020 con-game just a little better for us
non-politicians, then we need to fix things now. Yes, “we”.
Not just one party or another.
Here’s something that needs to not happen, but you know it will anyway.
Stop calling for reconciliation and “healing”! Stop asking for peace after the
elections. You’ll never get it. Thanks to the politicians, and the political
“experts” and the lobbying groups, we are in a never-ending campaign. Every election is a battle in an endless war
for power and control. Every
election. Every year. Every election is polarized, purposely designed
to fragment society, not bring them together.
And this is especially true with the conservative extremists. Conservatives don’t want peace with their
enemies. They want their enemies to
surrender. And if they lose, then they
refuse to recognize the loss anyway, so they will never “make peace”. This has been documented from 2007 when the
GOP lost control of Congress all the way until Trump’s inauguration.
So stop asking for something that you know you will never get and you don’t
really want. We Americans are in a
mental state of perpetual war. Own it
and accept it.
Now... here are a few things that need to be changed:
Get rid of the “Fifty-Plus-One” rule! I can understand why that would be needed for
a primary or caucus. You want to give
the illusion of a majority support when it comes to those races. But when it comes to the general election, that
whole fifty-plus-one garbage needs to be shut down. The whole purpose of that kind of rule is to
eliminate third party choices, since a candidate that doesn’t get
fifty-percent-plus-one majority means there is a run-off between the two
leading candidates. That means several
more weeks of psychological assaults in the form of lies and misinformation pretending
to be “campaign ads”. And you’re not
going to convince people who didn’t vote for those two candidates to do
anything different. They just won’t
vote. Period.
So let the third party votes stand in the general election and end the
prolonged psychological assault on the voters.
Next...
Stop allowing elected officials to keep their jobs
while campaigning for higher ones! It’s one thing to run for re-election, but if
you are an elected official looking to run for another office, then you need to
resign from your elected job the minute you get the nomination for another
office.
Georgia’s gubernatorial race was a blatant conflict-of-interest case with
GOP nominee (and winner) Brian Kemp still holding on
to his cushy job as Secretary of State while also running for Governor. The problem with that is that the Secretary
of State’s position is to oversee the elections, including for the higher office
he was running for. That means he was
campaigning for one job while still on the taxpayer dime for another. We were paying for him to run for higher
office. Plus, every move his office made
concerning voting rights was now suspect.
Was it truly to fight “voter fraud” as Kemp’s office repeatedly said, or
was it to keep people from voting against him?
All the denials in the world from him and his office mean nothing
because of that blatant conflict of interest.
That office’s integrity and impartiality was trashed by Brian Kemp just
so he could be governor!
And, seriously, the Democrats in Georgia failed miserably to act on this
until it was far too late. The minute
Kemp won the GOP nomination, there should have been calls, screams, howls, and
marches on the Gold Dome for him to step down as Secretary of State. There should have been screams of “conflict-of-interest”
from every Democrat in Georgia! That
should have been cause #1 for the Dems. But,
no, they
waited until the week before the election, when even that
request would be interpreted as a campaign stunt. That’s on you, Dems, and you need to own it. You probably could have won the Governor’s
office outright if you did that sooner rather than when it was too late. So make the effort to fix the loophole that
Kemp used for his victory.
One more...
Paper Trail! The whole matter about the integrity of
electronic voting machines and whether or not a vote is being changed after it
is cast can be resolved with two words: paper trail. Is it too hard to come up with a printed
receipt?
Again, going back to Georgia, the suspect Secretary of State’s office
claimed that it
was just not possible to change out the voting machines in time for this year’s
elections.
Fine. Do it for 2020. If the GOP was truly serious about fighting voter
fraud and truly preserving voter integrity, then they should be making this
their top priority now.
Then again, the GOP doesn’t seem to care about voter integrity unless
they can use it as an excuse to suppress the votes of those that vote against
them. So, again, the Dems need to make
this their top issue now rather than well into the 2020 fraud when it would be
again dismissed as being “too late”. And,
if the Dems really want it to happen, then they will need to guilt-trip the GOP
into helping them. Sell it as a way to
eliminate a major election complaint against them.
Remember the 2000 Fiasco? The
hanging chads and the dimpled-chads?
That led to the push for electronic machines to stop any future
complaints about paper ballots. So now
have a machine that can print out a receipt once the vote is registered and end
this complaint now before it becomes an issue for 2020. If we can have this for automated checkouts
at grocery stores and bank ATM machines, then we sure as hell can have them in
the ballot box.
These seem like simple fixes, right?
I know that there are plenty more that could be done and need to be done,
but these are some of the best fixes that need to happen and really should
happen, because they involve the integrity of the election system itself.
Well let’s get brutally honest here… these changes, no matter how much we
need for them to happen, are probably not going to happen.
These things, these bugs and flaws in the election system, are all tricks
of the trade for politicians and their allies.
They didn’t just “happen”. They
were created. As I’ve said before, this
is an endless war of power and control, with every election just another battle
in that war, and both the Dems and the GOP need every trick they can use.
The GOP’s “voter fraud” is a never-ending con-game. It’s never about finding “fraud”. It’s about limiting the number of people who
could vote against them. If you don’t
believe me, take a look at the groups they target and the kind of “reforms”
they impose. They only focus on the
groups that usually don’t vote for the GOP.
So if, for instance, you know the largest group that won’t vote for you have
PO boxes, you claim “fraudulent voters don’t have a mailbox” and require them
to have an actual mailbox in order to vote.
Crazy? Already
done.
The GOP and the Dems hate competition.
That’s why they created the “Fifty-plus-one” rule in the first
place. They don’t want third parties or
independents at all. They want the
runoffs because it does force people to either pick one or the other or else
not vote at all, so they get a fifty-fifty chance of winning no matter
what. That’s why the runoff campaigns
are even nastier then the general elections, because they really do not want
you to vote!
Like I said before, we are in a perpetual campaign war mode, designed to
destabilize America for the benefit of the dominant political parties and their
special interest sponsors. Every election
is just a battle in that endless war for power and control. One election is just a prelude to the next
one. Even Trump repeatedly acknowledged back
in 2016 that “it’s a rigged system”. The
problem is that he wasn’t saying that to get sympathy. He was gloating and that’s how he got to
where he was.
Yes, there’s a lot that needs to be done to fix that rigged system. But the first step is to fix the easy bugs. The ones that you know can be fixed. You start with restoring the belief that the
system itself isn’t rigged. That you can
vote, and that vote will be recognized, that it can’t be changed after you cast
it, and that the people overseeing those elections and are overseeing your
right to vote are not tainted by possible conflicts of interest or political
bias. You start with these, and you
pressure both of the dominant political factions to make these changes
happen. Then you can look at fixing the
harder problems. We all have to start
somewhere with this.
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