What steps can a political party, desperate to keep their near-total control of Washington and most major cities, take when their policies have spectacularly failed and their popularity is close to hitting rock bottom?
Short of admitting its mistakes and engaging in a total reversal of almost all of its policies, the only way to remain competitive is to change the rules of the game. Eliminate or prevent safeguards that insure honest balloting. Label everyone that disagrees or even openly discusses its’ failures a “domestic terrorist,” “racist,” or “moron,” and then use the full power of the federal government, supported by a sympathetic media, to harass them.
At home, the southern border has been opened wide, exposing the nation to extraordinary expense, dangers from criminal cartels, human traffickers, disease, and those from across the planet who seek to do harm. The once dominant U.S. energy industry, which not only kept domestic prices low but provided international allies with the ability to thumb their noses at Moscow, has been slashed. Absurd policies have emptied store shelves, and brought inflation to massive highs. If all this sounds like the old Soviet Union, or current day Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea, it’s not coincidental. The socialist policies that wrecked those nations are to a significant extent those that have been adopted by the ruling American Progressives that seek to change election laws.
In our once-great cities, leftist District attorneys ignore public safety and established laws as they release criminals onto the streets and refuse to seek incarceration. The once magnificent American public educational system has been co-opted by radicals seeking to defame the nation, push propaganda, and wrest control of young minds away from parents.
Abroad, the weakness exuded by a White House that sees the American people as more of a threat than the aggressive militaries of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea has encouraged the despots of Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and Pyongyang to take advantage by threatening their neighbors and preparing for actions which resemble those that initiated World War 2.
Obviously, all of those results would cause a shattering blow to the ruling Progressive ideology in upcoming elections. So how do they avoid losing? Change how people vote, and even bring in voters who are not even American citizens as has been done in New York. Indeed, so desperate are New York’s leftists to control elections that even after state voters rejected a ballot initiative to alter election rules, the governor is seeking to do so by other means. Democracy is an obstacle to the Democratic Party’s goals.
The audacity of the move is outrageous. The allegation that showing proof of identity is somehow a racist act is absurd on its face. The concept of same day registration, which would eliminate all possibility of preventing fraud, defies common sense. But it doesn’t even stop there. Unwilling to obey the separation of powers enshrined in the U.S. Constitution or the right of people to regulate their own local affairs, a dramatic power-grab by Washington politicians seeks to federalize election rules.
The D.C. politicians behind this are so intent on illicitly preserving their power that they are seeking to destroy long-standing Senate rules to do so. Those rules, by the way, have been vigorously supported by the same Senators who now want to eliminate them in an urgent bid to keep control.
President Biden has called the bid to change voting laws as a “turning point” for America. He is absolutely correct. If passed, the ability of American citizens to determine who runs the nation will become obsolete. It will be replaced by professional political hacks, party professionals, and radical activists who will use techniques such as ballot harvesting, multiple registrations of the same individuals in different districts, and the use of massed, unsecured and unverified mail-in ballots to pre-determine the outcome of all future elections in favor of those who are contemptuous of the principles of individual freedom, the rule of law, and the concept of one person, one vote.