The Fall of Our Great Republic?
The 2020 election will go down in history as one of the greatest attempted heists against the American people. We had the second highest voter turnout in history with a projected 160 million Americans voting or about 66.8% of eligible voters. The highest turnout was in 1900 when Republican William McKinley won reelection with a 73.7% turnout. Do you think “We the People” felt strongly about the importance of this election?
With rampant allegations of fraud, hundreds upon hundreds of citizens bravely standing up and swearing affidavits (under penalty of perjury) as to what they personally witnessed, pictures, videos (thank you, technology), compromised voting machines, probable foreign interference, and massive mail-in ballots allowed under the guise of the China virus, all while violating certain State Legislatures’ election laws. Not to mention, the real-time numbers being changed on live TV at the same exact time, in the same exact amount. We allegedly had dead people, felons, minors, and non-residents voting.
There is more than enough “preponderance of the evidence,” to ask some tough questions about what the hell just happened. I will take it a step further and say that it is our responsibility as voters to do so.
Although it may be sad that we are seeing this in the 21st Century, this is not the first time the US has had an election that was contested or undecided on Election Day. As such, there is precedence.
The first contested election was in 1800 when Vice President Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Democratic-Republican Aaron Burr received the same number of electoral votes. Back then, the person with the most electoral votes was declared the President and the runner up was the Vice President. Can you imagine that today? Trump would be the President with his rival Joe Biden as the Vice President or vice versa? The dispute went to the House of Representatives where Jefferson was declared the winner by 36 votes. Congress also passed the 12th Amendment that same year ending the runner-up-as-VP rule by instructing state electors to cast two separate votes for President and Vice President. Thank God!
The next election that went to the House of Representatives was in 1824. There were 4 candidates that year. All Democratic-Republicans; Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, House Speaker Henry Clay, Treasury Secretary William Crawford, and Tennessee US Senator Andrew Jackson. All failed to win the Electoral College votes. In what was referred to as “the corrupt bargain,” Henry Clay supporters swayed votes to John Quincy Adams. Clay then made Adams Secretary of State hoping that the position would set him up for the next Presidency. Andrew Jackson was furious as he won the popular vote and set out to galvanize his base. Andrew Jackson won the 1828 Presidency thanks to his coordination of local party groups that led to, what we know today, as two stable national parties.
In 1876, Democratic NY Governor Samuel Tilden and Republican Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes faced off. In the aftermath of the Civil War, there were tensions over who would gain control of the White House. On Election Night, Tilden was declared “Elected” by all the major news outlets. The next day, there was widespread voter intimidation and allegations of FRAUD and VOTER SUPPRESSION that threw out the legitimacy of 20 electoral votes in question. Tilden came up short by one electoral vote of the 185 he needed to win. Congress was not prepared with any methods on how to distribute disputed electoral votes at the time, so they winged it and created a bipartisan commission of members of the US House, Senate, and Supreme Court in January of 1877. It took 4 months for the leaders of both parties to declare Hayes the winner on March 2, three days before his public inauguration.
Fast forward to the 2000 election. This was the first time the US Supreme Court decided the presidential election when the Bush V. Gore race came down to Florida. Even though Gore won the national popular vote on Election Day, the electoral tipping point ended up being too close to call in Florida. Gore initially conceded to Bush then retracted it and sent his legal teams to Florida for a manual recount in some counties. In December, the Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that recounting ballots in different ways violated the Equal Protection Clause and 5–4 that no Constitutional recount could be completed before the Electoral College vote on December 18th. Bush ended up winning the state of Florida by 537 votes.
It is also worth noting that there is a misconception in this country that the person who wins the Presidency is the person with the most popular votes. We are a Constitutional Republic. We are not a pure democracy. The crucial difference between a Republic and a Democracy is that a Republic relies on representatives, while in a “pure” democracy, people represent themselves.
In the case of the Presidency, we have the Electoral College to protect against the highest populated areas determining the outcome for the rest of the country. I certainly do not want to see New York and California deciding the outcome of our elections. The states with the highest populations, also have more electoral votes. It is a system that levels the playing field when it comes to the highest office in the land.
Here we are in 2020 with Donald J. Trump V. Joe Biden and it looks like history may be repeating itself. As of the date of this writing, Texas, along with 17 other states, has filed a lawsuit against Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania with the Supreme Court. The rumor is 6 more states are trying to join the fight.
People that choose to turn a blind eye to the allegations and evidence that continue to pour in every day must be brainwashed sheep that have their heads so far up their asses that they cannot see straight let alone think for themselves. Even more concerning, they want one candidate to win over the other, not based on policy issues or qualifications to be the leader of the free world but based on hatred and vitriol for another human being.
Unicorns are real, cows are not allowed to fart, the Earth is flat, a bartender from the Bronx says everything should be free, and I have a bridge to sell you. Stop with the kumbaya crap. As a US Army Veteran, I can tell you that some of us swore an oath to uphold the Constitution at the cost of our lives, to give us all the right to spout such stupidity.
This is not a Republican or Democrat issue. This is an American issue. This is a fight for freedom. This is a fight against tyranny. If we let this stand without answers, we will lose our election integrity. We will see the fall of our great Republic and the destruction of our Constitutional rights. That should scare the hell out of every American.
