Proving case for Biden doesn't require "studies show" & "experts say" that no fraud EVER occurs/no dead people EVER vote b/c our process is PERFECT & could NEVER be gamed or tampered w/, unless a R wins. Let's look at who pays for some of these experts, shall we?
You've probably seen people feverishly poasting reports like the Brennan Center produces claiming EVERYTHING IS FINE - NO CHEATING EVER:
What does the Brennan Center do? Their job is to get the vote out for the Left and oppose things like Voter ID laws. And guess who pays for them to issue reports saying voter fraud doesn’t exist? Heh.
Bottom line is that lib academics & advocacy non-profits work to harvest the votes of the poor & scream DEMOCRACY & THERE'S NO FRAUD at anyone who questions their political operation. The Right should do likewise, but we need to shine a light on how this works for all Americans.
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This is no pristine democracy. It is a highly oligarchical vehicle with the dilapidated engine of a republic running on civic fumes, driven by an increasingly ideologically radical managerial state.
In places like CA, city managers run cities, not our often moronic city councils. We increasingly don't even bother to pretend to teach civics to our kids anymore, and our notion of citizenship as status with bennies comes with no real obligations.
1 party rule = political machine to get out the vote & manipulate for intra-party purposes. I get avoiding jumping to conclusions re 2020, but what planet do you have to be from to think that there’s no corruption in American elections in various locales? It must be lovely there.
The “then if it’s still close we stop all the counting for a while until we can figure out what’s going on” will become another new “norm” unless Rs fight hard in court this time.
Trump understands this. Many a "moderate" R does not and would roll over. But I think most of the R base knows the D gameplan now. Of course, if you've been reading us you knew this would happen months ago and you know what we will need to do next...
Look, if someone said to me "Matt, I'll pay you to make a last stand in California", I'd be all about it. There's always a play—no matter how likely the chance of success, there's always a possible gambit. But there's no infrastructure/powerful enough forces willing to even try.
Which is why CA is, practically speaking, hopeless. The only hope here is the cleansing power of collapse. The purifying results of the death spiral.
And I don't blame anyone for not even wanting to try to save the state. You'd run up against some of the most powerful political cartels in the world and there is no political or cultural infrastructure with which to start. You'd have to build it all from scratch. Why bother?
The Modern Nightmare: where all words and meaning expressed by the individual, no matter how jarring or contrary, are absorbed or deconstructed and inexorably incorporated into The Narrative.
The Hyperreal Nightmare: The Narrative is that there is no narrative, as each individual produces his own #fakenews, and no matter how common or harmonious, their words and meaning vanish into the winds of Babel.
Either way, the self is the most secure of prisons, and to be trapped within it the most torturous form of isolation.
THREAD. One of most frequent & ridiculous responses to my complaint that WE ARE NOW LED BY OCTOGENARIANS DYING IN OFFICE is some variation on “age doesn’t matter”, proud pronouncements about how “their age doesn’t bother me”, & accusation that my tweets were “ageist.”
1) If you think that (outside of some outlying exceptions) it’s good & normal to work in a demanding & important position of authority until you die you need to get examine yourself. This is a kind of sickness of soul—a repugnant, selfish grasping. These are gaping maws of ego.
What should happen is a conscious transition of power. You start to decline—part of the work of a great leader is to then prepare for exit from the stage. This means getting your things in order after training and mentoring those who can potentially take your place.