Against -isms

It’s that time again, about twice in a decade, when the votes are being cast. I don’t care much for Trump. He’s a narcissist, and he tries to please too much. He panders to the inane. And yet, he deserves your vote. He showed up, and he showed up against the odds.

As much as his opponents are trying to portray themselves as warriors for Democracy, they aren’t. They’re warriors for mind control, for fragmentation into splintering racist, sexist, and theocratic factions. They’ve overseen the creation of the Internet surveillance system, the decay of institutions, the ineptitude in global affairs, the replacement of competence with grievance.

Obama chanted ‘Yes We Can’. No you can’t. Move over, and let us have a functioning country again.

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Years ago, I decided that elections are little more than (maybe?) some choice between the lesser of two evils. At the time I made this decision, I now realize just how naive I was! That is because then, I couldn’t begin to imagine the depth and breadth of the evil which is the democrat (sic) party. Can there be any doubt that its main contribution has been the intentional dismemberment of the polity - its fracture along every possible fault line for political gain?

The age-old “divide and conquer” tools are instead, now relentlessly hammered in (which one of their wizards recently used this image? Aha! - John Kerry RE: the “dangerous” Elon Musk) like steel wedges formerly used to split off granite. Once, the resultant materials were used - by the likes of Michelangelo and others - to create things of beauty out of unwieldy granite. Now, however, such false divisions of the polity serve to create tractable cadres of “oppressed” individuals, who “vote” as they are told (or are bought or merely “helped”; sometimes resuscitated, as when the departed continue to vote, in perpetuity, progressive) for the leftist saint du jour.

Trump, flawed and fallen as he is, at least has and can occasionally express a vision for the nation. Kamala Harris is unable to articulate any coherent vision of this country. In this complex technocracy, one might plausibly ask whether or not who the President is makes any difference. Surely, the choices as to any policy are complex and arcane.

Here is where the person who is President makes a critical difference: (s)he appoints those who formulate the universe of policy choices available; this is important. Then (s)he chooses among them (and/or amends them) according to his/her vision - worldview and understanding of the citizens (s)he represents. With Trump, we have a pretty good idea of who he is in that regard. Harris, by contrast, has hidden herself quite effectively (to the extent such a thought process actually exists). Look into her eyes and all you see is a smoke-filled (likely THC) room filled with shadowy Marxists/Maoists. There is little doubt where that would lead, if she manages to “win”.

Unfortunately, while so effectively dividing us, the dem party has also stymied every attempt to make our elections credible. Why else besides cheating, would they fight voter ID or removing ineligible (like dead or moved) voters from the rolls? Why stymie every attempt to prevent cheating - like extending voting over weeks/months and “vote harvesting”? I guess, like Justice Ketanji Jackson’s inability to define the word ‘woman’ because she’s not an ‘expert’, we need ‘experts’ and ‘fact checkers’ to tell us the blindingly obvious: democrats are intent on cheating. Considering they’ve been telling us “by any means necessary” since the '60’s, perhaps we ought to take them at their word.

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They aren’t going to let us win, are they?

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