Wednesday, November 02, 2022
Democrats Go Totalitarian!
Meanwhile, it's now clear that the federal government has worked closely with social media companies to suppress ideas, facts, and viewpoints that the federal administrative state, Democrats, and leftists in general do not like. The FBI is making political arrests of conservatives, and harassing and threatening people such as Donald Trump and Mike Lindell, and "disappeared" at least one less high profile person.
So... a party with executive power that controls the bureaucracy, demonization of all who dissent from the party line as literal enemies, suppression and censorship, a proto-KGB... we do seem to have the early stages of Soviet-style governance developing. These sorts of things are foreign to most Americans' experiences, and it is hard for people to wrap their heads around unless they experience it directly. But it is remarkably dangerous and unchecked it leads to totalitarianism. And like the Soviet Union, we are also on the path to economic disaster, by committing to serious energy shortages, fiscal insanity, and monetary chaos. Oil and gas investment is nearly zero, interest payments on the federal debt are on track to surpass defense spending this year, and the Federal Reserve is now taking losses, a rare thing, and prospects for reversing that are poor. Welcome to the USSR.
I have no predictions for the upcoming elections. It certainly appears that the Democrats are on track for a crushing electoral defeat (good grief, they are so desperate they are running a brain-damaged man for Senate in Pennsylvania!) but then there's the astonishing lack of security and control over ballots and vote tabulation that we now have. Things that are now considered "best practices" by Democrats -- no ID, mass mailings of unsecured ballots, vote harvesting, acceptance of cast ballots that arrive after the election is over, etc. -- were the kinds of things that would be obvious attempts to cheat for anyone serious about an honest election... and would be violations of law under the training I received and oath I took as an Election Judge.
If the Republicans take both houses of Congress, I'm not sure I expect much. I'm not sure whether enough of them have awakened to the danger we face. The last time the Republican Party held both houses, they also held the Presidency, and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell made sure they didn't do much of anything, other than block President Trump. With Brandon in the White House, they have a ready-made excuse to accomplish nothing. It would still be desirable since the it would block the Democrat Party from passing terrible laws, it won't reverse our headlong charge toward totalitarianism, just slow it. And left won't sit by, but will raise hell and plot revenge for when they return to power. That's one possibility.
A better outcome would be that Republicans begin by impeaching and convicting as many administration officials as they can, including Brandon himself. They had better understand we are in a fight for our lives and liberty, and if we lose, we lose them.
* He wasn't really elected and he's not the real President.
