By ilana mercer
For journalists to discourage an inquisitive stance, even distrust, toward government and the elections process is astounding. But not surprising. I’m thinking of CNN journo Brian Stelter who asserted—they never argue, do they? They only ever assert—that skepticism about voting irregularities in America is “dangerous.”
Well, a journalist decrying inquisitiveness and skepticism: Now that’s dangerous.
Stelter—he’s a danger to journalism—and the rest of the media Idiocracy like to repeat that Russian hackers (never the Stelters of the world) are undermining America’s great electoral system. I ask you: What can the Russians do to us that America’s elites have not already done?
When broadcaster Lars Larson attempted to find out whether one Arcan Cetin was a citizen of the US, ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told him, essentially, “Sorry, our obligation is to protect this migrant’s privacy.”
“Who,” you ask, “is Mr. Cetin”? Cetin is a contributor to the phenomenon I term “murder-by-Muslim-immigrant.” He murdered five innocents, north of Seattle.
Arcan Cetin voted, reports Mr. Larson. But nobody at ICE was willing to tell a good citizen like our broadcaster if Cetin voted legally or not.
As it turned out, a sigh of relief was in order. The stellar Mr. Cetin, who, like most Muslim immigrants, voted Democrat, violated the Sixth Commandment five times, but, thank G-d, did not appear to have violated the commandment against voter fraud. Rumor has it that the murderer had been awarded citizenship, although it’s impossible to ascertain.
The point I’m making here is that you can rest assured voter fraud is rampant in the US as in any banana republic—and not only because an American is barred from checking whether a Muslim murderer is a fellow-citizen. But because leftists have fought down-and-dirty to bar any proof of citizenship at the time of voting. Yes, the law requires, in my state, as in most of these United States, that you be a citizen, as well as a resident of the state in which you’re voting. But you don’t always have to provide proof of citizenship when voting.
To vote in Washington State, as in most states, what’s needed is a driver’s license or a current State ID card. Essentially, the American voting system, thanks to the triumph of left-liberalism, is based on an honor system.
Journalist John Fund’s research has shown that when they vote, “80 percent of non-citizens vote Democratic.” And that “6.4 percent of non-citizens voted illegally in the 2008 election.” Funds’ sources confirm that a significant number of “non-citizens register as voters” and have voted in sufficient numbers to sway elections.
And when these efforts fail, the government might just step in to commit indirect voter fraud.
For instance, the Feds recently and wrongly granted citizenship to hundreds facing deportation, an “error” the culprits where unwilling to correct. The point is that leftists, Obama’s DOJ, in particular, have pursued every legal remedy in the book against states seeking to require proof of citizenship from voters.
The point is that we’re a sprawling country of competing interests, in which raw, ripe democracy has long-since usurped the old constitutional republic, where limits were placed on the power of thumping majorities. In a rank, raw democracy, where might makes right, and almost every vote is a lien against someone’s private property; voter-fraud by default is a big deal.
Donald Trump’s supporters might be the losers in something of a rigged electoral system; but they’re certainly not stupid.
That’s another oft-repeated thing. Trump’s base of supporters is referred to as whites without college degrees. Again and again we hear that Mr. Trump is over-performing with white men without college degrees. The reference is intended not only as a demographic marker, but as a Mark of Cain.
Worse has been said about this statistical cohort. Quoted in “The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed” are Republicans and Democrats alike, maligning Trump’s Middle America as worthy of contempt.
You had writer Kathleen Parker hissing about Trump’s “undereducated” supporters. There was Joan Walsh, Salon editor-in-chief, proclaiming on MSNBC that she looked at those people and felt sad. “They share such a low common denominator,” groaned Joan about the “crazy, entertaining, simplistic talk” of the Trumpsters. “They’re all Republicans. … they really don’t have a firm grasp on reality,” she sneered.
National Journal’s Ron Brownstein had his own taxonomy for Trumpsters. “Upscale Republicans” (or those on the panel with him), vs. “blue-collar Republicans.” Nothing but “downscale whites,” derided another Democratic strategist.
Anyhow, implicit in tethering a lack of education to Trump support is that the more educated a voter, the smarter. And the smarter the voter, the more likely he or she is to support Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.
But correlation, of course, is not causation. My hypothesis points to a confounding variable or factor—another variable related to both education and voting-patterns that could account for the good sense displayed by Trump supporters without college degrees.
Voters without college or university degrees have not been institutionalized during life’s formative years.
Voters without college or university degrees have not spent years in the tertiary school asylums.
In other words, many of Trump’s supporters are less likely to have been brainwashed and propagandized by the asphyxiating, postmodern, racial and gender agitprop that makes college-educated kids so insufferable and subject to group-think.
Spending protracted time in college or university is almost guaranteed to turn-out individuals whose uniformity of opinion is as scary as its uninformed nature.
Some support for my theory, namely that support for Trump is associated with a less propagandized population, is evident from the fact that Trump has an advantage with independents, which, as the label indicates, have a greater propensity to think outside-the-box.
YouTube versions:
“Voter Fraud Is Baked Into The US System.”
“Who’s Stupid? Not Trump Supporters.”
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ILANA Mercer is a paleolibertarian writer and thinker based in the US. Her weekly column was begun in Canada in 1999. (See Articles Archive.) Ilana is the author of The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed (June 2016), the first libertarian book of Trump, and of Into The Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011). Follow ilana on https://twitter.com/IlanaMercer & on https://www.facebook.com/PaleolibertarianAuthorILANAMercer/
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I am a Resident Alien (Green Card holder) in the United States. As such, I am not entitled to vote. Indeed I am not permitted to vote – it has been made very clear to me that any attempt on my part to vote illegally will be grounds for deportation. I am sure I have even had to sign a declaration to the effect that I have never voted illegally. This is clearly something they take very seriously, as do I, since I have no desire to be deported.
So how do these guys get away with it?
Videos I’ve seen on the topic, stemming IIRC
from Project Veritas suggest it’s due to lax documentation requirements at the electoral stations.
Without wishing to seem condescending, you are (or at least, my impression is that you are) a nice, law-abiding, white middle-class man, or some variation thereof. That being the case, you are a prime target for legal threats as they know that, being a nice, law-abiding, white middle-class man, you are easy to control and will take these threats seriously.
The people who commit the fraud usually fall into quite a different category. They are the type of people who are unperturbed by officious threats (if they are threatened at all).
I confess I’m a bit of a rogue myself, I sort of fall into the second category, so if I was threatened in that way I would probably laugh at them. But please don’t follow my example. Keep on the straight and narrow and keep that Green Card.
Vulnerable. That’s the word. I’m vulnerable. My Green Card cost me a lot of money and a lot of effort, and I don’t want to lose it. That’s the only thing keeping me on the strait and narrow here!
I’m aware that I am a guest in this country, which alters my perspective entirely. Otherwise I’m not very good at all at doing as I’m bid!
Hugo: It’s my legal position exactly. I’ll leave it to you to figure out, but some population groups are prone to breaking the law, and are duly accommodated; others not.
Well, strictly speaking, if the electoral system really is rigged on a grand, systemic level, then everybody in America is the loser. It may be that the rigging favours the Democrats this time round, but it could favour the Republican side the next time round, and it suggests a wider moral and ethical malaise. After all, if people in trusted positions can turn a blind eye to fraudulent voting, what else are they turning a blind eye to? This is why political fraud and corruption cannot be tolerated – regardless of who seems to lose and who seems to win by it, everybody loses in the end.
In my view, this endemic fraud is merely a symptom of the organic, slow-motion collapse of the United States of America as a country. You have replaced a Republic, a society under law, which can only be sustained within an ethnically homogeneous political community, with a democratic spoils system, in which various disparate ethnic groups vie for power and influence and the law is a political tool. Even the antics of Donald Trump with his silly, childish slogans – “Crooked Hillary” – are symptomatic of this moral and existential national collapse. Can’t you find a better leader than that cartoon clown? Answer: You can’t. Trumpism is further evidence that you’re collapsing into imperialism, venality and vapidity.
White Americans only have themselves to blame. It’s no good blaming the Democrats or some powerful ethnic group or the blacks or aliens from outer space. Whites have done this to themselves, though to be fair, it was probably always on the cards. I do think the collapse is organic. Acton’s dictum about power and how it corrupts could be the by-line of American history. In my view, it was all inevitable.
Here’s a curiosity; I’ve been in Florida for the last month, and while the notion of a Trump presidency seems utterly bizarre to English eyes, from here it doesn’t look half so crazy.
In my view this country (the USA) needs somebody like Trump to turn it around. Unfortunately we have ended up with Trump instead, and he is an idiot.
Everybody thinks Hillary will win, which I find terrifying, because she is definitely not an idiot. I’m not so sure myself though – I reckon Trump might just swing it.
As per my comment… the following videos delve into the topic of voter fraud in general, with some specific reference as to the methods employed to encourage the ineligible to vote: