{"id":26227,"date":"2023-11-06T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=26227"},"modified":"2023-11-05T23:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T04:03:14","slug":"something-will-have-to-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/06\/something-will-have-to-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Will Have to Give"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times, a former newspaper, published the results of a series of polls that they held in the six most hotly contested \u201cswing\u201d states, between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.\u00a0 Trump won five out of six.\u00a0 The only one Biden picked up was Wisconsin which was within the 4% margin of error for the poll.\u00a0 Of the five Trump won, all but one (Pennsylvania) was outside of the margin of error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
State<\/td>\n <\/td>\nTrump<\/td>\n <\/td>\nBiden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\n%<\/td>\n <\/td>\n%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nevada<\/td>\n <\/td>\n52<\/td>\n <\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Georgia<\/td>\n <\/td>\n49<\/td>\n <\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arizona<\/td>\n <\/td>\n49<\/td>\n <\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michigan<\/td>\n <\/td>\n48<\/td>\n <\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pennsylvania<\/td>\n <\/td>\n48<\/td>\n <\/td>\n44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wisconsin<\/td>\n <\/td>\n44<\/td>\n <\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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So, what does this mean?\u00a0 Well, if I were to guess, I think it means that independents in these states think Biden is doing a lousy job running the country.\u00a0 And since the independents are the least ideological voters, their opinion is probably the most objective.\u00a0 Two thirds of independents are saying they\u2019d rather vote for the guy who is being indicted in four different criminal proceedings in four different jurisdictions around the country.\u00a0 They\u2019d prefer a man who has been demonized by every news outlet, the FBI and the Justice Department.\u00a0 And impeached twice by the House of Representatives.\u00a0 Essentially what they\u2019re saying is, they want to vote for this guy precisely because all of these people say they shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Now imagine if these poll numbers remain where they are or increase right up to Election Day 2024.\u00a0 And then suppose that we have a rerun of 2020 where the people go to bed on election night with Donald Trump up by insurmountable leads in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan but the polls get shut down without a completed tally and then after a few days or weeks of \u201cfinding\u201d absentee ballots Joe Biden miraculously pulls ahead by a few thousand votes.<\/p>\n

Well, I think that would be the end of people believing in the electoral system in this country.\u00a0 After all, the label \u201cbanana republic\u201d has already gotten fairly wide currency after the partisan prosecutions that the Justice Department has been indulging in for the last four years.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing that comparisons of our electoral system to Sadaam Hussein\u2019s will become quite common after that.<\/p>\n

But the important question is, what practical difference will people\u2019s perception of voter fraud make?\u00a0 I mean, the fraud will still allow Democrats to control the White House and maybe the Congress.\u00a0 And that will eventually allow the Supreme Court to be packed with progressives.\u00a0 Will it matter if no one believes in the elections?<\/p>\n

I think it will.\u00a0 It won\u2019t immediately topple the government.\u00a0 The United States still possess formidable resources and many of its institutions are somewhat functional.\u00a0 But history has shown that a republic that loses the trust of its citizens in the fairness of its institutions eventually radicalizes the common people and leads to recourse to a revolutionary alternative.<\/p>\n

Rome succumbed to revolt once the republican government became corrupt and tyrannical.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not necessary to go back two thousand years ago to see what happens to a tyrannical government, even a powerful one once the people have lost faith in its legitimacy.\u00a0 We only have to look at the Soviet Union.\u00a0 When people discover that elections are fake their relationship to the state is no longer one of ownership.\u00a0 It becomes purely transactional.\u00a0 And so, if the government that presides over these fake elections also fails to provide prosperity, then the only thing that can keep it in power is brute force.\u00a0 Slaves don\u2019t work any harder than they have to.\u00a0 In the Soviet Union there was a saying, \u201cThey pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.\u201d\u00a0 Well, we\u2019re headed there.\u00a0 Inflation means that people are working two jobs and still aren\u2019t able to save up to buy a house.\u00a0 But they see illegal aliens given free housing and welfare.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think Americans are ready to live that way.<\/p>\n

Something will have to give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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