Election 2020

[Eric the Green]

(08-04-2020, 07:02 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(08-04-2020, 01:03 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: MSNBC had a law expert reviewing the checks and balances built into the election procedure.  The new Congress, elected in 2020, gets to review who is appointed to the electoral college.  If the election is somehow recognized as flawed or biased, the incumbent's term is still over on January 20 and the Speaker of the House would become president.  From there, through nominating a vice and resignation, Nancy could if she chose put the Democratic ticket in place.

Still a what if, but it shows the futility of trying to make things seem invalid.

I suppose if Trump tried to pretend the congressional elections were invalid too...

I think the point was missed.  Trump doesn't want to invalidate the election.  He wants to invalidate the government. Creating disharmony on an epic scale may very well get the job done.  Kristallnacht anyone?

I think that's right. He is part of a deliberate (if not necessarily organized) trend to discredit our democratic system, so that people get ever more cynical and just refuse to vote or to participate in a corrupt and useless "system" and just turn on each other instead of valuing the commonweal. Actually, however corrupt and ineffective "the system" is, is largely our own fault; we voted for it. Either by failing to vote, or by voting the wrong way, which usually means the conservative way, too timid and too protective of our perogatives and responsive to our fears, instead of considering what's best for our country; just the reverse I guess of JFK's famous inaugural saying, which I was lucky enough to hear as it was first given.

But if the system can be made deliberately not to work, then the people who might be curtailed in their greedy and cynical activities just get their way, and are free to prey upon the people without restraint. If the "deep state" is discredited and thwarted, and filled with unqualified loyalists and cronies, then no agencies are left with qualified personnel who are experts in their fields and who are sworn to protect and promote the well-being of the people. This is Trump's and Bannon's project, and it only brings to new heights the work of Nixon and Reagan and Bush and Gingrich and McConnell and their followers and fellow agents before them.