\u201cThis will be the most important election in your lifetime.\u201d\u00a0 How many times have you heard those words?\u00a0 How many of the last elections have been described exactly that way?\u00a0 Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush II, Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt.\u00a0 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1984, 1980, 1976, 1972, 1968, 1964, 1960, 1956. 1952, 1948, 1944, 1940, 1936, 1932.\u00a0 That\u2019s twenty-three presidential elections and eighty-eight years of crises, wars, world war, depressions, riots, drafts, atom bombs, collapsing evil empires and cultural psychoses.\u00a0 Forget the boy who cried wolf.\u00a0 This is almost a century of crisis.<\/p>\n
But heaven help me, I think I believe the expression is true this time, in a sense.\u00a0 Now I don\u2019t think Armageddon is upon us.\u00a0 Nor do I believe that either Biden or Trump is going to change the world that much, either for the better or worse.\u00a0 But I do believe that we have reached a point where Americans have gone beyond wondering if our elections are honest and basically will make up their minds based on the results of 2024.<\/p>\n
Would you believe an election was honest if it reelected a frail, mentally struggling 82-year-old incumbent who has knowingly allowed millions of illegal aliens to flood the country, increased the cost of living to unaffordable levels for the working and middle classes and waged war on his political opponents through lawfare?\u00a0 I\u2019m going to say for most honest people the answer is no.<\/p>\n
Effectively, this will undermine the legitimacy of the United States federal government in the minds of its citizens over a wide swath of the country.<\/p>\n
THAT WOULD BE A VERY BID DEAL<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019ve never been in this territory before.\u00a0 Well, not since the Civil War, anyway.\u00a0 And I believe it will have a profound effect on the way Americans think about and interact with their government.\u00a0 I see this as akin to how the Americans felt about the British government in the 1770s.\u00a0 There will be an adversarial mindset and the federal government will react to this mindset in kind.\u00a0 And that could lead to a spiral of actions and reactions.<\/p>\n Of course, trying to predict the future based on historical precedents is a fool\u2019s errand.\u00a0 But the attitudes are hardening and there is definitely a civil war vibe that has infected both sides over the last couple of years and there definitely is such a thing as self-fulfilling prophesies.\u00a0 But let\u2019s just say that if Biden is \u201cre-elected\u201d I think it will ignite a political movement to resist the malfeasance of the federal government, especially concerning illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n What happens if Trump wins?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it funny how no one even talks about that?\u00a0 Then he\u2019ll really have a tiger by the tail.\u00a0 He would have to start off his term by pardoning everybody on our side; himself, first of all and all of the January 6th<\/sup> defendants and as many of his people as have been hounded by the DOJ.<\/p>\n After that he\u2019s going to have to try and make good on his promise to fire almost a quarter of the federal bureaucracy.\u00a0 Hopefully he\u2019s really done his homework and has a decent plan for such a monumental endeavor.\u00a0 And then he has to try and revive the economy.\u00a0 And then boot out tens of millions of illegal aliens.\u00a0 And then he has to end the war in Ukraine.\u00a0 And then he has to dismantle the green energy boondoggle.\u00a0 And then, and then, and then, \u2026<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know about you but electing Trump president is starting to sound like the next round of presidential elder abuse.\u00a0 The poor guy.\u00a0 Well, maybe he can make DeSantis VP so he\u2019ll have a kid around to do the heavy lifting.<\/p>\n And even if Trump gets is elected, I don\u2019t think unity is going to be restored to the US.\u00a0 In fact, based on the last time he came into office I expect the CIA to send a hit squad after him as he steps into the White House on Inauguration Day.<\/p>\n So, is this the most important election in my lifetime?\u00a0 I\u2019d say yes.\u00a0 But let\u2019s hope the next one isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n