The Really-Awful Very Bad Election

 

For weeks, possibly months, Democrats have been predicting a Blue Wave that will hustle Donald Trump out of the White House where he never should have been in the first place.  Republicans, in contrast, have been pooh-poohing the notion under the assumption that GOP voters are reticent about openly supporting Trump for fear of blowback.  One of these was almost certainly true.

Imagine our surprise, then, to see neither a Blue Wave nor a Red Wave, but rather an ordinary neck-and-neck contest between an egotistical braggart and a senile farm-team second-rate politician!

In the run-up to the election, Trump has been packing stadiums with his followers while Biden is lucky to have 200 people — including staff — show up for any of his appearances.  Social media numbers, even given FaceBook's and Twitter's obvious suppression of conservative opinion, has been heavily skewed toward Trump.  One might be forgiven for suspecting that the Dems were about to get their asses handed to them on platters.

Election night proceeded more or less as expected save only for the mysterious appearance late in the process of hundreds, thousands, and hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots heavily favoring the Democrat slate.  One report — thus far unverified — claims 138,339 ballots in a single batch were all — ALL — for Biden, 100% of them, zero (0) for Trump.  Statistically, this is as likely as hitting the lottery twice in a row.

The closeness of the election and the slight lead enjoyed by the Democrats, not to mention the several stories of irregularities, combine to make more plausible accusations of vote fraud.

While I have never been an active supporter of Donald Trump, I recognize that he has managed to do things while in office (despite active obstruction by Democratic politicians and elements of his own Department of Justice) that deserve applause:  reducing regulation (which probably had significant impact on both the stock market and the minority unemployment numbers), brokering historic peace deals between Israel and several Middle-Eastern nations, and renegotiating NAFTA; along with several things that warrant raspberries and spitballs:  tariffs prime among them.

What I find hard to justify is the overwhelming waves of hatred — pure hatred — that his opponents fling his way.  The hatred is so unremitting that it results in what some call TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome:  the haters are unable to even give credit where it's due.  The only thing that matters is putting Trump down.  If that means giving up all the good things Trump has managed to do, that's the price we must pay, and if it means we must overlook the fact that our Presidential candidate is visibly failing, mentally, and is almost certainly NOT up to the rigors of the Office of the President, well, you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.  Besides, there's always the 25th amendment by which Joe Biden can be put out to pasture and replaced by President Kamala Harris who, as a contender for the nomination, was so unpopular among Democrats that she had to drop out of the race early.

You can't make this stuff up.  Democrats have decided that things like 'truth' and 'justice' and 'fair play' are just getting in the way of what must be done.

When "Tipping Point" was being written, Oleg Volk read an early galley and remarked:  "Frank, I sure hope you haven't written a documentary," and I agreed.  That was then; this is now.

The larger the government, the more corrupt it will be.  This seems to be a law of nature.  There are no countervailing examples.  To reduce the corruption, there is but one path:  reduce the size of government.  If that needs to happen via secession, then so be it.  A nice little civil war seems right about now to be a step up from where we are.