Democratsy

In the 2020 election we saw an unliked incumbent president (Is "unliked" too mild?) get slaughtered by an old white guy that no one likes. But it was a strange slaughter. All the first reports showed the incumbent leading handily, but the media was calling it for the old guy. Strange. But, hey, that's the way the politics bounces, right? Okay, no. Something was ... strange. This led to the "election fraud!" cries and the subsequent easiest dismissals in history. First, "Dominion, did you do this?" "No." "Well, then, there it is!" Then the media and its followers (which is mostly everyone else) hung the term "misinformation" on the claim and it was all over. Pay no attention to the fact that "misinformation" in this application merely means "doesn't align with the approved narrative." If "we" (media, Democrats, whomever has the loudest voice) deem it "misinformation," no further discussion or investigation is needed ... nay, allowed. It's a good way to get yourself banned from social media sites. Besides, we're too busy digging into an insurrection that wasn't and the tax records of a president who isn't anymore. We've got important matters to attend to.

In the subsequent year many states worked to "clean up" their act ... their election act. While the Left complained about the right "hating democracy" because they protested something, some sought to eliminate the question of election fraud. Simple measures like requiring ID (which, as far as I recall, was always the case) and verifying signatures on mail-in ballots and removing people from voter registration rolls that shouldn't be there¹. These, of course, are "racist" and "anti-democratic" and whatever other terms they can provide to make you not ask, "Hey, are these steps making voting more reliable?" Whatever you do, don't ask things like that. That would mean you're succumbing to "misinformation," likely a "racist" (because everyone knows black people can't get ID) (seriously, who hates black people so much to believe they can't get ID?), and certainly "anti-democratic."

They aren't called "Democrats" for nothing. They've simply bought their own line. They define "democracy" as "democratsy" -- that which the Democrat Party believes. Every reasonable, caring, thinking person will agree with the Democrats and those who don't are "anti-Democratic." I mean, it's in the name, right? They are Democrats, so anything they do is preserving democratsy. Their enemies are the enemies of democratsy. They are Democrats, so whatever they want is, by definition, democratic. Democratsy does not exist outside of the Democratic party.

There's a book out there that lays it all out neatly and completely. It is titled Rigged by Mollie Hemingway. It tells how the 2020 election was rigged ... beginning way back in 2016. But don't worry. You won't see it. It won't be talked about. It won't be discussed, debated, reviewed, examined. I'm actually surprised it's there on Amazon since, like all Big Tech and media, they're not averse to hiding this kind of stuff from the public. No, it will be labeled appropriately -- "misinformation"² -- and set aside. "Nothing to see here. Go to your cells ... I mean, go home." Because we are nothing in this country these days if not led by the nose by government, Big Tech, Big Pharma, and the media who all have their own our best interests at heart.

I am really not a conspiracy fan. I think people that see conspiracies around every corner are a bit over the top. It's just that with all this election stuff and now all this COVID stuff that all just doesn't jibe with the reality that is patently obvious, it doesn't appear to be "around every corner." It appears to be in your face.
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¹ Just a note ... an opinion here. Many (most?) (all?) states have mail-in voting. In my state (Arizona) we registered to vote (providing the proper ID) and signed up for mail-in voting and every election they send us a mail-in ballot. Sometimes they send us a note: "If you'd like to stop, send this in." But we keep getting these ballots and that's okay. Just my opinion here, however. If they opted to send out a registration renewal request every election that required us to reaffirm our status and mail-in option, I wouldn't consider that a hardship. If the default was, "If you don't let us know you still want to vote this way, we'll take you off the mail-in list," I'd think that was reasonable. But, I suppose, that's apparently only because I'm anti-Democratic.

² Not because it is actually appropriate, but because "misinformation" now means "whatever we don't want you to consider."