Cards on the Table
4th November 2020
Severian lays them out.
Since the last few posts and their comments have been discussing the heretofore all-but-unthinkable, let’s move all of that up here. I’ll put my cards on the table. Trying to predict the exact course of events is a mug’s game, ditto the likely outcome of general trends… but the general trends are clear enough: Last night was America’s last even kinda sorta arguably “open” election (n.b. not “free,” let alone “fair”), and might be our last election, period.
No matter what happens, nobody, anywhere, will consider this election legitimate. Even if Trump wins — which is possible, perhaps even likely — all that will mean is that his lawyers were smart enough to catch the Democrats in obvious voter fraud, and the Democrats were dumb enough to get caught, this time.
These people are criminal sociopaths. I mean that quite literally. As any cop will tell you, some criminals are born, others are made, but there’s really no such thing as an ex-criminal. “Crime” is a way of life. Whether you’re a bank robber or a drug dealer or a tax cheat is epiphenomenal — that’s the type of law that it was most convenient for you to break, given your situation. But once you start bending the rules, it’s inevitable that you’ll break them… and once broken, keep on breaking them. There’s no way the people who tried to steal the election for Biden are going to straighten up and fly right, because they can’t. And again as any cop will tell you, crimes aren’t stopped by the vigilance of the security forces and the brilliance of detectives. It’s an equal combination of criminal stupidity and luck — sheer, dumb, stupid fucking luck. Maybe they won’t succeed in stealing this election, but they’ll steal one sooner than later.