Dear Editor,
Unless there is some major event that alters the course of the ongoing presidential election campaigns, it will be high noon in the USA in November. Whether or not there are presidential debates, and chances are there won’t be any, no matter which candidate is declared the winner, the other one will, most probably, refuse to concede defeat, and his party will vigorously contest the declared result of the election. In the ongoing pandemic, exacerbated by the rampant violence on display in the streets of a number of US cities – all of them governed by the Democrats for the last 50 years or more – there is no telling how all of this will end.
Both parties are marshaling their arguments and advocates in view of contesting the anticipated result of the election. If President Trump is declared the winner, the Democrats will, most certainly, accuse him and his Postmaster General of having weaponized the US postal service during a pandemic when voting via the mail was exceptionally necessary, crucially important. Conclusion: Republicans impeded the vote, the timely collection and processing of mailed-in ballots which accounts for the skewed result in their favor.
If former V.P. Joseph Biden is declared the winner, Republicans will argue that Democrats, a number of their governors in particular, used the pandemic to game the system by enacting state legislation which enabled “ballot harvesting,” massive voting irregularities and fraud with the complicity/assistance of partisan unionized postal workers. Conclusion: the Democrats deliberately undermined the mail-in voting process by enacting state voting laws that facilitated massive illegal voting; they weaponized the postal system, subverted/corrupted the result.
Unlike the month-long legal battle in 2000 that led to the Supreme Court 5-4 decision in “Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98” that ended the recount of the vote in Florida, and declared G.W. Bush the winner; unlike that battle, this time around, there will be no such feasible way of proceeding with a recount of votes. The SCOTUS may not be able to settle this deadlock except through a much longer, more complicated recount of votes in several states. This time around, there will, most likely, be a much longer, much fiercer legal dispute than in 2000, a more entrenched battle with words while real battles rage in the streets of a number of cities throughout the nation. And when the law (battling with words) fails to settle a dispute, the age-old recourse is violence.
These are trying times indeed. Hell is empty! All of its devils have migrated here, on earth, where they are busy sowing havoc everywhere, and, lately, nowhere more so than amongst people in the Land of Liberty, the USA. The late great philosopher Will Durant opined that “the proletariat, instead of dictating, will disappear (Fallen Leaves, 2014, p. 154). It has disappeared, alright but, not before its madness, like a virus, had migrated from “the masses” to “the very few”: to “the elites.” The elites have replaced the proletariat in that old destructive quest; in that demented journey; in that delusional search for Utopia.
True Democrats – everywhere – must hope that, in November 2020, Americans will rescue democracy from the Globalists’ pipe dream of a plutocratic oligarchy: government of the US and the world by so-called elites; by a small group of people of great wealth and influence. They are assisted stealthily, furtively, mongoose-like by Globalist Corporate America; by the US Chamber of Commerce; by the US Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (MICC); by elements of the US Intelligence Community and by George Soros’ minions of mindless predator worker bees – the American mass media particularly.
Gérard M. Hunt
