On August 26th, I posted a story, A Democracy Story – Tales of Elections Future. I have some thoughts on where that notion started, what it turned into, and where it’s going to go.
First, it’s a fictional journal entry illustrating some events, starting with a few in present ‘history’, then extrapolating forward based on trends. It’s spoken by a hypothetical person that has some command of past current events but is up to that point, less informed of the undercurrents happening around him. The story drops in on him writing a stream of consciousness in his journal, an exercise in trying to make sense of a political world that has spun very much outside of norms that he’s familiar with, in a very short time. He just relays the facts, the news as it’s come to him, including unconfirmed rumor, because that’s how most all of us receive our news and impressions. Some of those rumors may be true, some may not be. Nevertheless, the writer is clearly shell-shocked by events and subtly understates the impact going on around him. Like the old adage, he’s a ‘frog boiling in the water’.
My initial thought as the writer was first, to give a list of many more areas that are quickly gyrating beyond norms: economics, science, culture, education, judicial, foreign relations, and many more. I first intended to do a compare-and-contrast essay which then quickly turned into the device of a story and from there, a journal entry. But once I started writing, what wrote itself was a tale that focused almost exclusively on elections. What transpired, the degree to which things get out of hand within the narrative, was not planned. It was essentially wargaming and I wrote what happened. Let’s just say I was as surprised as anyone would be. I could forgive anyone for thinking it’s far-fetched and yet every aspect of the story is grounded in real news events that have happened in the past several years. One of the hallmarks of Northeast Reader is that being unlinked from an income stream, I can openly speculate a few steps beyond the point of more prominent periodicals. You’ll find paths leading to some of those ‘outlandish’ conclusions in prior months and years of writing. For example, I explicitly stated Biden’s senility during his campaign. Now you’ll observe the same openly discussed among Democrats, just not on mass distributed news formats, and yet, on plenty of others. It’s not just palace intrigue and rumors, there is abundant video footage.
The 2020 election was stolen. Almost 80% of people polled said that if they knew of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents, it would have changed how they evaluated the election, and that’s just one in a thousand points of corruption. The FBI took it upon themselves to attempt to throw the election. They ‘ordered’ Mark Zuckerberg to cooperate and he had to comply, poor Mark, except that he also invested heavily in throwing the election in ‘get out the vote’ schemes that have since been made illegal. One in a thousand points…I’m not here to list all the ways in this piece but just suffice to say that the knowledge and outrage is steadily spreading. We’re at a point to where the operative argument isn’t whether the election was tampered with but instead, why they thought it was necessary as if we’re supposed to just swallow that.
Fast forward to now. Biden has wrecked our economy, foreign policy and international esteem, destroyed a wide scope of norms, and the voters are preparing for strident change, and yet I see the signs and hints of groundwork for another election steal. A few commentators are warning about it, suggesting that polling is changing, but I think it goes deeper then that. Given the devastating destruction that Biden and company have wrought, it does not add up that majorities in any but the most mindless blue states would be electing a Democrat majority to either side of Congress. So what if there is something more?
The search and seizure of materials domiciled at the Trump residence was an extraordinary act as will be some formal action directly against him, but that, at face value, while widely thought to be a direct act to influence the election, is having the opposite effect of what the Biden administration may have hoped for. It is the ruthlessness of the act that should be observed and noted because there is something coming that will make that look like child’s play. This is reflected in the journal writing narrative.
It’s now almost September and there is just over two months until the election. Do you think the Democrats have all their major moves on the table yet? If so, you may be naïve. At this point, I can’t predict what that will be, only that it will be jarring. At this point, the way news events have conditioned us, I’m not sure that bringing a phony indictment or even imprisoning Donald Trump would constitute the shock that the destroyers of democracy have up their sleeve. End of discussion, or is it?
The rest of this should be taken only as a ‘far-fetched’ what if. In July, New York City started running ads for what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. This raised a lot of eyebrows. Aside from quite vague wacky inferred threats made by Putin, there was no cause whatsoever to worry that a nuclear attack threat had suddenly escalated in anyway beyond what we’ve experienced in the past twenty or thirty years. New York officials gave, essentially, a light-hearted – you can never be too prepared type excuses and the whole affair blew over. Right? Except that a similar ad showed up on a billboard in my own rural county in the past several weeks. This is not a national news item, but I suspect that my own county is not the only one getting these ads. This is a strange thing and a strange time to blow public money on at a local level. What if…..?
The Democrats, the ones that now essentially view themselves as the only one legitimate party in the US, they have learned one thing above all from 2020: A public emergency gives them, in their mind, the necessary justification they need to altogether override election rules. Expect an emergency between now and November 8. I won’t commit to a nuclear emergency or any specifics for that matter; just know that the tale of the gentleman journaling is not as far-fetched as it may read at first glance.