Election 2020
As I write, President Trump, challenging the news media’s rush to anoint Biden, is asking for recounts in various states and for the elimination of illegal ballots from the tallies. If those recounts are done honestly, he may yet retain the presidency.
Whatever the outcome, the fact that the Biden-Harris ticket has come so close to winning—that half of the American electorate, having voted for Lady Macbeth four years ago, has now voted for a professional liar and grafter become, in his mental decline, a cardboard pawn—is a sign of the rapidly approaching end of the United States of America envisioned by Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Madison and preserved by Lincoln.
If Biden is the actual winner, or the de facto winner because of fraud, look to see the following:
The military will be gutted.
Taxes will rise.
The economy will tank.
Globalists will dictate American foreign policy to their own advantage.
The borders will become porous again.
The Chinese Communist Party will continue to steal our intellectual property and technology, pollute our educational system with communist propaganda, expand its hegemony in the Pacific, around the world, and in space, and convince America that resistance to the CCP is futile.
The news media will continue on the course of becoming Big Brother, telling us what to think instead of reporting factual news.
Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube will expand their extensive anti-family, anti-religious, anti-masculine, anti-virtue programming.
Google, Twitter, and Facebook will freely engage in censorship of traditional content and conservative opinions and eventually see to it that they are made illegal.
The educational system from top to bottom will march steadily on in promoting its racist leftist political agenda while denying the universal values of truth and virtue.
Corporations, government, and educational institutions will abolish merit in favor of race, ethnicity, gender, etc., as grounds for promotion.
Lying, fakery, and cheating in all arenas will become norms.
Abortion and euthanasia will be legalized and promoted everywhere.
Fear of Islamist terrorism and of the next CCP virus will be used to justify the state’s dictating by fiat all public and much private individual behavior.
Secular anti-Semitism will become widely fashionable.
Liberty and equality of rights will be steadily eroded in favor of government-enforced equality of outcomes.
In short, state tyranny will prevail, self-government by an educated and virtuous population will be over, and “government of the people, by the people, for the people” shall perish from the earth.
You will say that I am exaggerating. Perhaps. But if not, I reserve the right to say “I told you so.” Only it will be too late. It may be too late now.
posted by GRap | 8:37 PM
5 Comments:
Professor Rappaport, you were one of the first people to teach me about how to think critically, and about the importance of seeking truth and reason in all things.
I don't understand how someone who spoke so eloquently to me about the truth can defend Donald Trump, a person who objectively and without doubt plays fast and loose with facts on a daily basis.
I've also entered law school since taking your high school English class, and it is personally important to me to note that there is absolutely zero legal or factual basis for the claims of voter fraud being perpetuated by Trump and the GOP. Trump and Bush appointees alike are throwing these claims out of court since they have no legal leg to stand on.
This goes beyond politics, beyond the left and the right and moral and social issues we may disagree on. As a defender of the truth, a lover of real justice, I feel that you simply must decry Trump's demonstrably false statements.
All the best,
Isabel Hagood
Last point: I want to be clear: there have been some 25 cases filed that allege fraud, and plaintiffs have already lost some 20. They have not won a single one. Courts are the preeminent institutions we have for determining the truth, and they seem to have spoken with overwhelming uniformity that has cut across the judges’ ideological lines. - IH.
I have had two nasty comments and one earnest one in response to this post. I will not post them because I don't want to get into a left/right shouting match in print. I don't think I've lost either my mind or my commitment to justice and truth. I am no worshiper of President Trump, aware of his actual flaws, as distinct from his mythologized ones, and certainly am not happy about them. However, I judge him as president by the actions he has taken in office, most (not all) of which have won my approval, not least his support of Israel and his attempt to alert us to the threat of the CCP. The accusations of fraud in the election are provisionally believed by half the electorate, and categorically disbelieved by the other half. This split was perfectly predictable. The question remains whom we may trust to resolve the conflicts. Do the courts remain politically impartial referees or have they too become the arena of partisanship superseding the commitment to the law and to justice? Perhaps we will not know the answer to this question for years to come. In any case, the lover of truth and justice, whatever his or her political leanings, is now weltering in mistrust, with the means of learning the truth seemingly corrupted by partisan propaganda on all sides. I have declared a moratorium for myself on engaging in political debate with people who cannot see that the split in the polity is dire and only want their own side to win. And also with those whose form of argument is ad hominem attack. I will only say here, in defense of my post, that anyone so blinded by hatred of the President that he or she cannot recognize that the promised alternative regime will result in the curtailment of liberty by the forces of neo-Marxism, Chinese Communism, globalist corporations, and the tech monopolizing of our information and entertainment, is living in a bubble of wishful thinking.
I appreciate this response very much, and I will certainly mull over what you say here. If there's one thing I feel certain that we can agree on, it's that leaders on both sides (and all people) are flawed and imperfect, so our deepest trust must rest exclusively with someone higher. Wishing you well, Isabel.
One last point, and then I'll get back to studying for my law school studying! You brought this argumentative streak on yourself by being such a good teacher and having us read so much socratic dialogue :)
We don't have to guess whether or not the courts are behaving impartially because we can read their decisions and reasoning for ourselves. Learning the truth doesn't have to be corrupted by partisan propaganda - court documents and records are public. The judiciary is one branch of government that we can actually literally fact check. We can read through each lawsuit containing allegations of fraud, the facts and evidence presented, and analyze the judges' reasoning for throwing out the lawsuits ourselves. We needn't throw our hands up and say there's no way to know, I believe there still is. Additionally, I don't believe we need to worry as much about courts being corrupt because many of these judges are appointed for life and thus remain much more above-board than our elected officials. I do understand that each person, even a judge, may have his or her own agenda and beliefs influencing his decisions even if he doesn't realize it. Still, I don't believe trust in the judiciary is misplaced.
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