Principles, honor and the coming American banana republic - go.shr.lc/2TfFgoH - @washtimes
You’ve got a Democrat in Georgia refusing to concede, filing a suit to extend the certification deadline. You’ve got races in Florida won by Republicans now headed to recounts demanded by Democrats.
You’ve got a race in Arizona that seemed all-in for the Republican but then shifted, days and days after polls closed, to the Democrat.
You’ve got courts and recounts and counties with histories of problems at the polls, accusations and conspiracies, and heated exchanges
At the end of the day, you’ve got an American public that’s left with a big old pot of mayhem and madness, collectively puzzling a week after elections about who really won.
Can you say banana republic?
Can you say banana republic?
Fact is, the systems are crumbling. The gate-guards of principle are way too few and far between, way too quiet to be effective.
And what’s going to result from all this Election Day upset, soon enough, is a major shift in how U.S. elections will be conducted.
And what’s going to result from all this Election Day upset, soon enough, is a major shift in how U.S. elections will be conducted.
It’ll be big wins for the Democrats, for sure — the Democrats, who want to do away with the Electoral College; who want to stretch out voting day into voting week, voting month even, all as a means of causing chaos and confusion and creating opportunities for recounts...
The Democrats who who want to take something as principled and true as a voter’s right to vote and turn it into a political tool to bring about constitutional demise.
Oh, it’ll bring the left these wins and more, and what’ll happen, one fine day for the happy life of the liberal, is that conservatives just won’t vote. They’ll adopt the “why bother” attitude and simply stay home.
America’s election process needs to be more transparent and accountable, more disciplined and better managed — and what that means is more people of principle have to fight to get into positions of power, or at least into platforms of influence, to properly safeguard the system.
Americans want to believe in the system. Americans need to believe in the system. But the system’s faltering and the trust is tearing. It’s only principle and honor that can save.
