The Outcast Majority
Sat Nov 20, 2004 at 12:09:18 AM PDT
You are not crazy, so don't drive yourself crazy explaining the obvious to people who would rather demonize you than accept the truth. Here we are in the aftermath of the greatest republic in history, appalled by the transparent phoniness of a national election, and our political leadership is mute. There is a lot of explaining due. Don't let them off the hook by reciting the endless blizzard of hypotheses for how the election fraud was executed. Enumerating the holes in the system wears you out and perpetuates a broad condemnation of all reasonable observers as conspiracy theorists. Make them defend. Make them demonstrate that the basic election process was sound, or even worthy of being taken seriously.
It is true that you are a member of that fringe demographic commonly called the Majority, but don't think you are alone. Individuals of your sort tend to respect the views of others and to consider criticisms, but these weaknesses do not discredit everything you say. Just don't try out for the demonization team. Stick to what you're good at, like truth and integrity.
Truth and integrity: you cannot accede to a cataclysmic lie and you cannot capitulate to an authoritarian usurpation of the republic.
The baiting, fear-mongering, and defamations are tricks from the con-artist playbook, forcing you to defend your own claim to powers of reason, while the Authorities invoke their own theocratic exemption from questions. It reduces us to a pathological meekness: "I'm sure the election was a fraud, but I can't prove it." To whom do you have to prove anything? That's your own America in the body bag.
Would even the feeblest of us give audience in our personal lives to such accounting-by-snow-blower? Would we take on the responsibility for correcting the errors in a system designed as a game of factual keep-away? Particularly when the con-men knew in advance that we saw the con coming and we told them not to try? Yet with the greatest inheritance in human history being carted off, our own leaders stand by, saying, we know it's wrong, but we can't prove it.
The standard for election processes, apparently, is that the minority wins if the majority is cowed. Don't look to the rotted court supreme. Here is your test: What leading politicians of the defeated opposition will stand up and say the process itself was fundamentally sound, worthy of first-pass credibility, and stick around to defend that claim? Make each and every one defend.
Look, just because the other side broke it doesn't mean we are unwilling to help fix it. Like the authentic mother in Solomon's tale, we would sooner see the Union survive than perish by fracture. But false concessions won't save this country any more.
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