The left keeps marginalizing those who are not left. I thought at first it was just installing their socialist agenda but now I think that won’t be enough for them. Instead, I think it is their strategy to cause an actual insurrection so that they can complete the power grab and effectively wipe out any and all resistance to their naked quest for control. By continuing to poke non-lefties in the eye, they are fomenting the very thing they purport to stamp out and they know it.
The key to thwarting this strategy is to not take the bait as difficult as it will be. A call to arms or any instance, such as a couple of hundred people illegally entering the Capitol, would play right into their hands. The fallout from any real or perceived violent action, even a supposed “plot”, would provide the left with the “mandate” to take quick and decisive action to stamp out this seditious and dangerous effort to overturn democracy. (I can see Pelosi giving the speech as she sends storm troopers out to corral the deplorables.)
Rather, it is critical that election laws be examined and cemented to assure that we still have a chance to have a truly representative government. We have all seen what a one-party government does and not just in foreign countries but right here in the USA. California, Illinois, New York, Connecticut; you pick from these or other one-party entities and I defy you to tell me they’re run well. HR1 is the radical left’s brazen attempt to consolidate and perpetuate their hold on the federal government. Even the name should cause concern – “For the People Act” (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1/text?q={%22search%22:[%22hr1%22]}&r=1&s=2). Just what people are they referencing?
In an affront to the Constitution, it seeks to install federal election laws that supersede those of the staters as enumerated in Article 1. The very issues that have cursed our most recent election are made permanent. It includes campaign financing that favors incumbents, same day and automatic voter registration, extended periods for voting, and a host of other dictates on mail voting and other nefarious means to invite fraud. Codifying the ability to vote by non-citizens just sets the table for the ”they’re already living here and paying taxes so why shouldn’t they get to (fill in the blank entitlement)” argument they have used so effectively with the 20 million or so illegal aliens they continue to grow. The “fix” becomes permanent and we become a one-party country. Under the continued guise of racism, any questioning or clarification of these laws will be automatically dismissed.
If we are not able to have our voices heard in public, we had better be assured we can still have it heard in the anonymity of the voting booth. Should we lose the ability to select our representatives in fair and free elections, this grand experiment is lost. It will take decades if ever, to get back the beacon on hill that was freedom to so many. That loss could be the spark that gives the left the fight they have been fomenting. Let’s pray, cooler heads prevail and all Americans can unite to keep this most precious country intact.
Current Day Publius 