DEMS ARE DEDICATED TO GETTING THEIR 20 MILLION INVADING ILLEGALS INTO THE VOTING BOOTHS - VOTE BY MAIL IS ONLY ONE DEVICE THEY PERPETRATE
Democrats Want to Save Democracy by Eliminating Elections
Sometimes you have to destroy democracy to save democracy.
“What we are seeing right now is the all-out assault on democracy,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold claimed in 2021.
“Everything we do every single day to ensure the American people can elect, freely choose their election officials,” the chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State held forth in 2022. “We believe that democracy literally is on the ballot.”
In 2023, democracy is no longer on the ballot in Colorado because Griswold, who had spent every single year warning about an “assault on democracy”, launched an actual assault on democracy to ensure that people in Colorado would not be able to freely vote in elections.
After Colorado’s Democrat justices ruled that, on their say-so, former President Trump couldn’t appear on the ballot in Colorado, the state’s GOP proposed to move to a caucus system.
And Griswold responded by warning that the Colorado GOP couldn’t change its own primary so that voters can’t actually vote for the candidate they choose, only those that Democrats choose.
But as the Mills Brothers sang, “you always hurt the one you love.” And sometimes you love democracy so much that you have to kill it to save democracy from itself.
Some Democrats define any opposition as an attack on democracy. And when they end democracy, they’re really “upholding democracy” so high up so that the voters can’t get their grubby fingers on it.
Secretary of State Griswold had previously described Republican bans on ballot harvesting as an “assault on democracy”, challenging election results as a plot to “destroy American democracy” and questioning the behavior of hyper-partisan election officials like herself as an “all-out assault on democracy.”
Everything she doesn’t like, according to Griswold, is an attack on democracy.
She claimed that candidates asking for recounts is an attack on democracy because it makes life harder for her. And “we have to make election administration work for election officials. Part of the attack on democracy is making it so that good people step down.”
Democracy has to work for Democrat election officials. Not so much the voters.
Griswold claimed that a lawsuit by Judicial Watch alleging that she had failed to comply with the National Voter Registration Act was, you guessed it, an “attack on democracy.”
So what is actually ending democracy in Colorado? Obviously it’s defending democracy.
“A group of Colorado voters is pushing back against Donald Trump’s assault on democracy – arguing he should be banned from the state’s ballot,” is how MSNBC framed her interview.
Secretary of State Griswold told the leftist cable news network that, “we are in the middle of the worst attack on democracy that our nation has seen in recent times”, by which she did not mean her own actions, but new House Speaker Mike Johnson: “a known election denier that tried to thwart Americans’ vote in choosing their next president of the United States.”
This was coming from a woman who was on MSNBC to discuss her own efforts to “thwart Americans’ vote in choosing their next president of the United States.”
If Irony isn’t dead, it’s probably also guilty of an assault on democracy.
Over in California’s war on democracy for democracy, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis urged officials to “explore every legal option to remove former President Donald Trump from California’s 2024 presidential primary ballot” as part of “protecting the fundamental pillars of democracy.”
The fundamental pillars of democracy can be summed up as not letting Americans vote.
After 8 years of hysterical claims that democracy was at risk, the democracy shouters have begun openly undoing the most public form of democracy at the ballot box. Unsatisfied with rigging elections behind the scenes, tainting voter rolls, incentivizing mass voter fraud and illegal voting by changing election rules, suing over every race they didn’t win while criminalizing election challenges to those they did win, they’ve moved on to banning the opposition.
It’s not just Trump.
In Oregon, Democrats have barred much of of the Republican State Senate delegation from running for reelection using the union and billionaire donor backed Measure 113 which they hailed as an effort to stop the “subversion of democracy”.
When the opposition is defined as the enemies of democracy, ending elections also ends the “subversion of democracy” and then democracy goes smoothly without any actual opposition.
The war on democracy in the name of democracy is in full swing.
The States United Democracy Center promises that it is “holding democracy violators accountable” by disbarring lawyers who engage in election challenges.
Free Speech For People has been arguing that Democrat state election officials should bar not only Trump, but “any other elected officials who helped facilitate or otherwise engaged in the insurrection” and they define that as those who “aided or gave comfort to the insurrectionists.”
There have already been specific proposals to remove two elected House members from Congress, but it’s a wide net that could easily encompass much of the Republican Party.
After the Chinese Communists suppressed the “insurrection” by Christians, liberals, conservatives and other non-Communist Hong Kong citizens, they disenfranchised much of the population, replacing open elections with “patriot only elections” in which only regime lackeys are allowed to run for office. Most people in Hong Kong no longer bother to vote.
Some Democrats seem intent on doing the same thing in the United States.
The lovers of democracy really like the idea of democracy in the abstract. The only part of democracy they have a problem with is that the people they disagree with can also play. They believe that democracy could really reach its potential if there were no Republicans in the race.
The trouble with democracy is that after the speeches, there are elections. Get rid of the elections and democracy will, like a Saturday Night Live political skit or a John Oliver monologue, become a safe space in which they have nothing to fear from the outcome.
The war on free and fair elections is being waged in the name of democracy against democracy.
But it’s all in how you define democracy.
“Blocking Trump from the ballot isn’t an affront to democracy. It’s the essence of it,” an editorial argues. ”Blocking Trump from the presidency is precisely what democracy demands, and failure to do so would be a grave betrayal of democratic values.”
Democratic values and the essence of democracy, as opposed to the practice of it, are very different things. The things that leftists claim to value invariably collide with their values.
When they are in the opposition, they claim to value free speech, a free press and the rights of the minority, but as they gain power, the things they value clash with their values of having unrestricted power to be able to remake the nation and society in line with their politics.
They claim to value processes, but when push comes to shove all they really value is power.
Democracy rests on free and fair elections, but that’s incompatible with democratic values which is what Democrats actually want to accomplish. Democracy becomes an abstraction. It has values and an essence, it even “demands” things which are the same things they demand.
Eventually democratic values demand that democracy cease to operate to protect their power.
Anyone who opposes that is an “enemy of democracy” who is carrying out an “assault on democracy” and the only way to protect democracy is to end democracy.
But sometimes you have to destroy democracy to save democracy.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
Biden of course does none of these things, which is why the gates are now open for these new caravans rolling up from southern Mexico. And with Mexican officials helping them along the way, as well as shaking them down for cash, too, there is little doubt they'll find their way in and hold their hands out.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
CA ALONE HANDS ILLEGALS $50 BILLION PER YEAR. GIVEN THE INVASION IS BORDER TO BORDER, YOU CAN BET THE COST IS MUCH GREATER THAN $150 BILLION (SEE BELOW).
What’s the cost to American taxpayers of illegal immigration? One estimate is $150 billion per year but who knows for sure? What about tangential costs?
At the rate we are going, soon the entire world may migrate to America for free food, shelter, education, health care, and even voting rights. The latter perk is the real reason Democrats want open borders as Americans won’t vote for their nonsensical proposals and candidates.
Open Borders – Why Not Just Invite the Entire World to the U.S.?
America’s southern, and perhaps northern, border is open for business, lined with welcome mats, neon lights, and a sign flashing, “come one, come all.”
To even call the physical boundary of the United States “a border” is a miscarriage of language.
Today’s reality is that there is no national border. At least for those crossing by foot or caravan. For those attempting to enter the U.S. legally, by following the law and visa application process, it’s a nightmare of rules, delays, cost, and frustration.
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For those interested, read here about the bizarre labyrinth facing citizens of many countries to legally visit or transit through America. Lady Liberty doesn’t want any “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” that follow American law, but has her arms and purse wide open to those coming to America illegally.
How many? Before President Biden, “As of 2021, the nation’s 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants represented about 3% of the total U.S. population.” What about now, specifically the past three years under Biden?
Since Biden took office in early 2021, the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) has “encountered” almost 8 million border crossers, the majority young military age males. In August alone, that number was 232,972, an annualized rate of 3 million migrants a year.
December is no better with 300,000 migrant arrests, as Fox News reported. Those arrested are told to appear in court up to a decade later. Good luck with that.
Trump promised to “Build a wall.”
Biden promised in Reagan-parody fashion to “Tear down the wall.” He ordered his border agents to cut Texas’ barbed wire fence, at least until a judge put a temporary hold on Biden’s wall tear down.
“Encounters” and catch-and-release arrests are only part of the story. How many snuck through without being encountered? Those are called “gotaways”. CBP reports 1,000 “known gotaways” per day. That’s 30,000 gotaways per month or 365,000 per year, the population of New Orleans.
How many “unknown gotaways”? Another New Orleans amount? Or perhaps an Atlanta, Boston, or San Francisco number of illegal migrants?
The numbers are worsening. The New York Post reported: “Record 12,600 migrants encountered at the border in 24 hours” last week. That’s 4.6 million a year or 18.4 million in four years, or 6 percent of the U.S. population every four years growing from illegal migrants, unvetted and most unable to support themselves.
That’s the equivalent of adding a state to America every four years, and a large state at that, such as California, Texas, Florida or New York.
The border is wide open, with Border Patrol agents shuttling busloads of migrants across the border at night in unmarked busses, as this Owen Shroyer report illustrates.
Here is a Fox News report from last week,
The besieged U.S. southern border saw a record number of migrant encounters in a single day on Monday, as thousands flooded into Eagle Pass, Texas, amid a broader surge in recent weeks that has left authorities overwhelmed.
There were over 12,600 migrant encounters on Monday, Customs and Border Protection sources told Fox.
What’s the cost to American taxpayers of illegal immigration? One estimate is $150 billion per year but who knows for sure? What about tangential costs?
According to Colorado Public Radio:
Colorado has seen a nearly 60 percent increase in [tuberculosis] cases this year from last.
Why would that be? Is it from legal weed or magic mushrooms, two staples of Colorado life?
How many illegal migrants are tested for TB? Are any treated? If so, how? It takes up to a year to treat TB. Or are they simply released into America with a handful of pills and a suggestion to see a doctor?
The Denver Post unintentionally answers the question:
Denver has received more migrants per capita over the past year than any other large U.S. city that doesn’t flank the southern border.
TB is not the only cost. Again, from the Denver Post,
If Denver doesn’t receive more federal support, Johnston said, the city could be looking at spending an unplanned $100 million in 2024 — about $2 million per week — and “we wouldn’t be able to survive that.”
Denver is getting what it wanted as a sanctuary city, supported by its overwhelming number of Democrat voters. Same for Chicago with Mayor Brandon Johnson accusing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of “attacking our country” for sending illegal migrants to Chicago.
Chicago, too, is a sanctuary city, now bellyaching that they have to live up to their 38 years of virtue-signaling, “With five mayors vowing to shield all immigrants in Chicago from federal agents, regardless of whether they are citizens, permanent residents or asylum seekers.”
It’s obvious that elected officials of both parties have no interest in enforcing existing immigration law or closing our national borders. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan thwarted President Trump’s desire to “build the wall.” Yet these same cheap-labor chamber of commerce types are happy to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and other countries to protect their borders.
Why don’t we as a country just give up and invite the entire world to move to America? Do we even have room? Yes, we do.
A National Geographic writer ran the numbers,
The entire world could fit in Texas if each person were alloted the same average square feet of living space as in New York City. I lived in New York City, and the sqaure footage wasn’t that bad. Give up a private screening room and a wine cellar and a couple of extra bedrooms — and most of your kitchen space — and you’d be surprised.
At the rate we are going, soon the entire world may migrate to America for free food, shelter, education, health care, and even voting rights. The latter perk is the real reason Democrats want open borders as Americans won’t vote for their nonsensical proposals and candidates.
Imagine Democrat ballot-harvesting dreams with tens of millions of illegal migrants on the voter rolls, being sent ballots deemed undeliverable, that harvesters retrieve, fill out, and stuff into the nearest drop box.
Taxpayers reportedly fund thousands of dollars in benefits for migrants including cash, gift cards, cell phones, and free transportation to the city of their choice.
As shoehorning the entire world into Texas is not fair to Texas, everyone could instead live in New York, California, and Illinois, solid blue states with about as much combined land area as Texas.
This seems farcical but when does farce morph into tragic reality? The border remains wide open and instead of slowing, illegal migration is picking up steam, turning many large U.S. cities into unhealthy and crime-ridden hellholes.
But if current trends continue, perhaps America can give the states that vote for open borders politicians a taste of what they asked for. Put a big “Welcome” sign in a few such states and they can demonstrate their compassion, tolerance, inclusivity, and diversity by sharing their states with the entire world.
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a physician and writer. Follow me on Twitter @retinaldoctor, Substack Dr. Brian’s Substack, Truth Social @BrianJoondeph, LinkedIn @Brian Joondeph.
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