An Illegitimate Election Plunges the Republic into a Crisis This is how elections are conducted in Third World countries - and now in America. Nov 27, 2020
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
However the presidential election turns out, one thing is clear, half the country will believe that the man officially sitting in the White House is an illegitimate pretender.
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My favorite Solzhenitsyn quote:
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:
What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation
... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 19181956
Here's the significant difference between Soviet dissidents of his era and the United States of America in any era
... All they had were axes, hammers, and pokers
... whereas Americans are heavily armed with over 400 million firearms and something on the order of 12 trillion rounds of ammunition in the hands of private citizens.
... While it's true that many (perhaps most) subjects of the coming "People's Republic" will passively submit and knuckle under, there are enough who won't to make the lives of the LEOs, who will have to enforce the state's dictates, a waking nightmare.
... The possibility that we will descend into anarchy is much more likely than any imposition of tyranny.
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