Timothy Birdnow

Carlos Velazquez forwards this paper discussing the crucial role of trust in a democratic republic like ours and how it is being eroded in the modern age - and how that is an existential threat to the belief of the citizenry in the governing structure of our nation.

The author is absolutely correct, but he doesn't go far enough.

At the outset of 2019 the Democrats were in a demoralized state; everything they had thrown against Trump had failed and they were desperate to regain power. The only way they could, as they saw it, was to change the rules.

They did this by using the pandemic, which they blew up way beyond the degree of seriousness it deserved in order to justify those rule changes. They closed their own states, thus damaging the economy in the process, then blamed Trump. But the real goal was to get the rule changes in place.

The rejection of mail in voting WAS a bipartisan issue for a long time; after the election of 2000 the bipartisan Carter Baker Commission warned mail in voting was ripe for fraud. The Democrats basically took their report and used it as a blueprint on how to steal the election of 2020, and with a complicit media they pulled off a true coup against the Trump Administration, then pursued Mr. Trump and anyone who challenged the election results with the full force of law. The FBI was spying on people who suggested the election was stolen. Places like New York or Atlanta brought charges against Trump aids (like Rudy Giulliani) in kangaroo courts to suppress evidence of fraud.

I could go on but the point is that this was always intended to steal elections just as letting in millions of illegal aliens served that purpose.

As the authors says, this had led to an erosion in trust, and trust is what makes a democratic republic function. As John Adams stressed "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other". Yet so many Americans have highly immoral and irreligious peoples into office because those individuals offered largesse from the treasury and promised immoral and irreligious things.

So there have been enough Democrats, and they have become ruthless and Macchiavellian enough to purposely try to hide what they were doing, which is rig the game in their own favor. The more ruthless the politician the more they have been rewarded, and so the moderate Democrats are now all gone. Power is all that it has come to matter in politics.

They have been building a Tammany Hall style machine, a Bill Daley machine, in Washington and while much of that is illegal they have hidden it in plain enough sight; they know the media is in the tank for them and will run interference. (One can fairly hear Emperor Palpatine in the form of James Carville shrieking in joy as he murdered Master Windu "Unlimited Power!" from Star Wars III.)

But of course this is an end-game thing; it has destroyed the public trust in the fairness of elections, and in time that could rent the whole republic asunder.

So now the Republicans want to require voter i.d., a very modest proposal that all other countries on Earth require and the Democrats are fighting this tooth-and-nail. They argue minorities are too stupid to be able to get an i.d. card! I suspect everyone knows this is a canard, which is why the blacks and latinos aren't angry like they would be at Republicans if they were to make such an argument, but it is a testament to how far this nation's moral and spiritual center has imploded.

We desperately need the SAVE America act.

When the Founders established this country it took days for information to travel across a state, much less the country, and so elections were left to the individual states. The Founders could never have anticipated the rise of electronic communications and mechanized travel and how that would give an empire to the media. That empire has outpaced the checks and balances put in place by the Founders. Political parties can subvert the vote through carefully coordinated efforts that are only possible with modern technology. The only way to restore balance is to prevent them from cheating at the local and state levels by putting in minimal standards.

(Vote Fraud has always been an issue. There were reports of massive cheating in the election of 1864 for instance. And the election of 1960 was clearly stolen by Kennedy. But it has never been so easy to do and easy to hide as now.)

The fact is the Federal government has long imposed minimal rules and standards on states.

We used to have a national speed limit, for instance. We have a national drinking age. We have a national tax. We have national food and drug safety standards. We have standards in how we deal with minorities. We have standards that deal with the treatment of the handicapped. We have air pollution standards. We have limitations on who can be medical doctors, or airline pilots. Yet we have zero standards with how we handle our most important civic function.

It's insane, but it's a conscious policy. And as our moral center has disappeared it seems many Americans just don't care.

In the end if we do not restore public confidence in our electoral system we will continue the division in this country until we come to civil war. It's the inevitable outcome of a system where power is all that matters and different sides are willing to do whatever it takes to acquire it. Setting voting standards to restore public trust is absolutely vital to keeping America from tearing herself apart.

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