If Trump "wins" the election I will be unhappy and I will assume there was some cheating.
If Harris "wins" the election I will be unhappy and I will know there was massive cheating on a scale to hand her the office.
If Oliver "wins" I would be somewhat relieved and I would know I had left my current reality and slipped into a better one, but one still dumb enough to allow rulers to govern others. There's room for improvement.
For me, there's no acceptable outcome from an election.
All elections are rigged because "None of the above; abolish the office" isn't the default on every ballot.
I have no use for a president. I don't need to be governed and I don't need you to be governed to protect me, because I'm an adult, not a helpless child.
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Why would you only "assume" "some" cheating on a Trump win, but would believe yourself to "know" there was "massive" cheating on a Harris win? Trump's main advantage -- not being QUITE as obviously senile as his opponent -- disappeared with Biden.
ReplyDeleteThe Republican Party seems to me to be completely incompetent in everything they do. Maybe they would cheat as much if they were capable of pulling it off.
DeleteThe Democratic Party is expert at changing "laws" to give their party an advantage, and of taking advantage of the incompetence of the Republican Party. Plus, I do think the Democratic Party is slightly more fundamentally evil. Not a lot, but enough.
I think Harris has more problems than not being senile can fix. I do think that she will lose unless the Democratic Party can cheat enough to put her over the top. It's probably due to geography, but I'm not seeing anyone actually supporting her. Even my Democrat relatives have gone completely silent- which is uncharacteristic. They may hate Trump, but they can't admit to supporting Harris.
So far as I can tell, the cheating angle is pretty much a wash. The tactics are different because the locales are different. Democrats run machines in the cities, Republicans in the rural areas for the most part. The Democrats function more on manufacturing fake votes, the Republicans more on trying to keep the "wrong" people from voting while "harvesting" from the "right" people.
DeleteMy experience in a southern "red" state, and most of my field reports from friends, look different from yours -- the Democratic base is enthusiastic, the Republican base is depressed. Which has implications for turnout.
I've already made my "final prediction" which I'm committed to not change. My "model" assumes the same relative cheating levels as usual. It could be wrong, but I don't think it will be wrong by very much: Harris 319 electoral votes, Trump 219 electoral votes.
All elections in this country are fraudulent to some degree, primarily because, as Stalin is reported to have said; “…what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.” Since it is an unequivocal fact that governments routinely and even typically lie, cheat and deceive and government agents are the ones who do the counting and decide how votes are cast and by what method, the validity and accuracy of all such tabulations are necessarily highly questionable. Add to this the part that Stalin thought less relevant; who votes, which is also controlled by the government through registration requirements and ID mandates, and another secondary area for cheating and fraud is introduced into the process.
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