The political rodomontade Joseph Biden is one of the worst, maybe the worst, president in US history yet he prevailed over Donald Trump, one of the best, maybe even a great president. And the Democrats, despite their failures, still win. How has this happened?

     President Trump claims fraud. Dead folks, non-citizens and others who are ineligible to vote, those who vote early and often, and those who vote in more than one jurisdiction are loyal Democratic constituencies. Do those voting constituencies cast enough votes to decide an election? Yes, if it is otherwise close. Examples include, Richard Nixon’s loss of Illinois in 1960, Rick McIntyre’s loss of a US House seat in 1984, Woody Jenkins’s loss of a US Senate race in 1996, Dino Rossi’s loss of a governorship in 2004, and Norm Coleman’s loss of his senate seat in 2008, Republicans all, and all were close and likely decided as a result of fraud. Joseph Stalin reportedly said that “it is not who voted that counts, but who counts the votes.” The Democrats have done him one better by controlling who gets the ballots.

     So is President Trump correct? After all, the issues favored him. The issues for the 2022 midterms favored Republicans; Illegal immigration, sex trafficking and deadly drug smuggling were not determinative; Inflation was largely ignored; crime waves, rioting and looting were excused; other than in a few local races; transgenderism was not opposed; the Biden family corruption was dismissed, the humiliation of America let along the death of American soldiers due to President Biden’s incompetence had no real effect.

     What then generated what really was the Biden victory in 2020 and the Democratic Party victory in 2022? The two major factors are Democratic Party control of the ballots in key swing states and following Saul Alinsky’s advice that power is won and kept not by discussing issues but by the politics of personal destruction. The Democrats, with the help of the media, have surrounded the Republican Party with a negative atmosphere and Trump, with his help, with a poisonous aura. Atmospherics or impressions trump issues. Facts don’t matter very much.

     With the Democratic Party’s campaign tactics and control of the election laws (the ballots) in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona added to a base that includes California, New York, Illinois, Oregon, Washington State, Washington D.C. ,Maryland, Hawaii, and almost all of New England, no Republican is likely to be elected president in 2024 and beyond.

     The failure of Republican controlled state legislative bodies to oppose the Democrats well planned excuse to institute wide-spread mail-in voting and vote harvesting (who really fills out the ballots or chooses which voters get them) followed after 2020 with failure to correct the obvious problems illustrates why the Republican Party as a party is politically stupid and cowardly without the courage of its own expressed convictions (assuming it has any).

                                              Robert D’Agostino

Chaos at the southern boarder; disastrous rout in Afghanistan; suckered by the Taliban into killing innocents including children via a drone strike; looming run-a-way inflation; the list goes on.  So the Democrats turn to Covid-19 as cover for the real agenda. The Republicans fall into the trap. We must stand for freedom and liberty say the Republicans while the Democrats stand for saving lives-an abstraction with little or no relevance to most Americans vs. induced panic with full support of the main stream media. The American people are in favor of mask mandates and coercive vaccination rules. Facts don’t matter if you create an atmosphere of fear and accuse the Republicans of promoting death. Governor DeSantis should be discussing the new FDA guidelines, natural immunity for those who have recovered from Covid and the dangers to the young of the vaccines as compared with a mortality rate that is less than for some versions of the flu not about suing the Biden administration even if Florida should do so. The attack should be about the Democrat’s fear mongering and failure to “follow the science”. It should be about the goal to turn the United States into a third world country ruled by a diffuse oligarchy through control of the levers of power and information, the granting of wealth, and the promise of status to those who cooperate..

     Those who fear a threat to liberty are with the Republican Party but there is a group just as large lead by the “intellectuals “centered in academia and supported by the MSM whose contempt for ordinary Americans combined with their self-regard is so great that they believe in turning citizens into subjects as long as they picture themselves as giving the orders rather than taking them. Marx and Lenin were very specific about the necessity of a vain intellectual vanguard to mislead the recalcitrant allegedly oppressed classes to a future utopia; after all, many members of those classes do not know what is good for them.  Lies and demagoguery are acceptable in pursuit of higher goals.  That and the ideologically motivated censorship by Google, Facebook, and Twitter are admittedly hard to overcome resulting in the fear of saying or writing something defined as offensive by the woke mob like telling the truth about crime or quoting the Bible.

     Intellectuals as a class are always subverters. They are credentialed; they claim they are compassionate; they resent those undeserving rubes who are more financially successful and happier; if asked, many will tell you that they know what is a good and equitable society and it doesn’t include Christianity or Jewish believers. Intellectuals as a class are easily manipulated by the promise of status and rentier generated income by the truly powerful that use utopian schemes to appeal to the mass of people while they shift enormous wealth up stream and create a dependent low paid underclass.

…..The pandemic has given the subverters and seekers of more wealth and power at all costs (known as Democrats and their backers) with the excuse to seize more through their alliance with the federal bureaucracy, academia, a thoroughly corrupt MSM, and the major corporations including the high tech companies. The Republican response is largely ineffective and pitiable. Check out Biden’s poll numbers which are still in the mid 40% range. Democrats are for saving lives; Republicans are against that.  A created atmosphere, not mere facts, matter most. See, Saul Alinsky and the destruction of Trump among the “right” people.

Robert D’Agostino