In another forum, a contributor sent around a link to an article arguing that the only thing that ultimately will matter in the coming 2024 election will be how many Blue (Democrat) ballot envelopes are collected versus how many Red (Republican) ballot envelopes are gathered. Since the side that collects the most envelops or votes obviously wins, maximizing envelope (vote) collection should be the focus - the only productive focus - of the 2024 election effort. Everything else, the writer argues, is a distraction.
On this argument, the contending parties - Blue and Red - must and will do anything to maximize the number of envelopes or votes collected, including cheating any way they can to increase their tally. Indeed, this is exactly what the Democrats did in the 2020 election, effectively creating millions of fraudulent Blue envelopes or votes out of thin air, and then demonizing and suppressing any meaningful protest or effort to examine their lawless election theft - “Election deniers! Threats to democracy!”.
Accordingly, unless we as a people have abandoned any aspirations to free and fair elections and have openly agreed on an election cheating free-for-all - whichever side cheats the most and the best, and gets away with it, wins and gets to run the country - then the real issue is not how many Blue and Red envelopes are collected, but how many legal Blue and Red votes are cast and tallied.
In other words, as I have written previously, the real and only issue in the looming 2024 election, the only uncertainty in my view, will be the integrity of the electoral process - the degree to which the election is free and fair.
If the election is free and fair, or reasonably so, the outcome, in my view, is foreordained. Trump, who did so well for the country in his first term, will win in a landslide, as he did in 2020 before the election was stolen from him and his supporters. I find it simply incomprehensible that the American people in 2024 would vote for more of the disaster served up by the America-hating, doddering, senile dement Biden and his illegitimate regime since they stole their way into power.
The Democrats know they cannot prevail against Trump and his supporters in an honest contest. Thus, since they have absolutely nothing to offer the American people (see my previous Substack post “No-Brainer”), they will of necessity be forced to focus on just two efforts: (1) prevent Trump from running, or, failing that, (2) attempt to steal the election as they did in 2020.
Short of assassinating the man - and, since these rabid, power-hungry demons are utterly amoral and lawless, I do not consider attempting such a thing beyond them - they will certainly fail in the first effort. As Trump said in a recent interview, nothing will stop him from running. Since he is beating his closet competition by 30 points, he is certain to be the Republican nominee.
Accordingly, the only question that remains to be answered - the question that should be the focus of every decent, honest, patriotic citizen - is the question of election integrity.
We largely do know the methodologies employed in the theft of the 2020 election - massive hacking of electronic voting machines, illegal suspension in critical states of laws and procedures governing elections, and the addition of massive numbers of fraudulent ballots (see "2000 Mules" documentary).
If we can put a stop to or severely limit these methods of election fraud, we will have a decent chance of an honest election outcome - an outcome that will almost certainly put a genuine American patriot back in the Oval Office.
If we fail to reign in election fraud in 2024 - if we allow a repeat of what happened in 2020 - it will be confirmation that our democratic Republic has been overthrown, confirmation that we are no longer a free people, but a nation ruled by thieves.
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, honesty vs. dishonesty, reality vs. fantasy, law vs. lawlessness, justice vs. injustice, order vs. chaos, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, God vs. the Godless…
Choose a side. You will, one way or another…
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men’s souls…
Torquemada
Right on Ron!