Democracy died on 2020-11-04, so I have been paying no attention to elections, electoral integrity laws, and all that.
But, due to normalcy bias, lots of people have:
In the run up before the 2020-11-03 election, the Democrats massively escalated all their regular routine fraud, sufficient to deal with a massive Trump landslide.
But instead of a massive Trump landslide, they got a colossal Trump landslide, so in the early hours of the morning of 2020-11-04, halted the counting, and proceed with hasty, panicked, and incompetent last minute fraud. Which last minute fraud was only applied to the federal election results, with the result that a lot of states went Republican at the state level.
And, theoretically, the states control the election process. So those freshly minted Republicans think they are onto a good thing. So, a bunch of election integrity laws.
Also, a whole lot of laws against critical race theory.
The laws on critical race theory appear to be having absolutely no effect. Law has ceased to matter. The laws on election integrity are likely to be similarly ignored. Only Republican scrutineers backed by physical violence are likely to have a significant effect on election outcomes. To attain a fair and honest electoral outcome, Republicans would need to deploy the methods that Julius Caesar and the NSDAP used attain a fair and honest electoral outcome. Such methods are likely to produce a fair election only once.
But it looks like the Republicans are going to try another ride on this merry go round. It will may well be their last ride. I count my survival prospects much better than theirs.
Well, speaking of elections, we have one here in Canada tomorrow, for all the marbles. Please pray for us eh, Jim anons.
Good luck. The Russian one just passed the other day, and were quite Biden-esque.
Some anti-system wins on state levels, especially provincial sparsely populated ones, but mostly overwhelming cheating. Anecdotally “everyone knows” that the heartland deep nation shifted toward the commies in 2020/21, but on the vote-counting level this shift got decisively muffled.
In Chechnya Kadirov remained governor with 99,7% of the voted, of course.
But a fifth party squeezed into Rus congress with just a handful of representatives–the New Humans. Weirdo futurists who believe humanity is going through a collapse of roman empire phase, with chaotic dictatorial governance erupting everywhere, according to their program.
https://newpeople.ru/program_newpeople
https://new-onthology.ru/2021/05/26/%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA-%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%B2-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BB%D0%BEe/?utm_source=newpeople
Wait, I thought you were Indian based on your name. Are you Russian? Either way you are a negative-contribution commenter.
Russia is blessed with a marginally competent government (which type of government will invariably include letting dependent ethnic groups like e.g. Chechens be ruled by brutal and destructive dictators in order to keep them from fucking with the state’s actual clients). Under these conditions you (if you are Russian) should be thanking your lucky stars that they cheated. You do not want an alternative to good government in control.
If you are a blog.jim.com reader and commenter we at least expect you to understand that democracy is an ill, and that the problem in Russia is not that they have “unfair” elections – it is that, in the presence of marginally competent government, they have elections at all.
Isn’t Kadirov at least a little embarrassed in cheating that blatantly?
That’s not how things work in Russia. What would actually be embarrassing is having to play along. They respect being told what to do, they feel insecure and vulnerable when their rulers are hesitant or weak. Exactly like a woman, heh.
This is Chechneya not Russia, Chechneya is only nominally part of Russia and it follows your particular form of moon god demon worship zealously as opposed to globohomo demon worship.
And you know this how? Commies claiming to be popular “real worker” types is always what they say, but always they are really popular with phony intellectuals and not actual worker types.
Takimag tradcons embrace our worldview…
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-seeds-of-moderate-defeat/
Opps forfot the link.
That’s a great piece. And to think I used to call Z-Man a shill.