Will the mid-terms in the US be free and fair elections?

[noname223]

Will ICE and the national guard be used to suppress voters?
Will the gerrmymandering be worse than it ever was?
Will the results be contested? Voting manipulation by the media?
Will voting by mail be suppressed?
Will voting machines be seized?
Will the elections actually take place? Insurrection act, maybe the US will be attacked by a foreign force lol

 

[Dejected 55]

I don't know... but all this has happened before.

Has everyone forgotten how when Obama was President the Republicans fear-mongered saying Obama would declare martial law and prevent future elections so he could be President for life? This was a real thing... prominent Republicans would say this shit on TV. It obviously never happened. So now people fear monger over Trump doing the same thing. I mean, I get it is more in his wheelhouse of an idea he might actually consider... but here's the thing.

IF Trump could actually do such a thing... then our country is not at all what it is billed to be and it deserves to fall. The design of our system and the power of the people is supposed to prevent someone from taking that kind of control perpetually. IF Obama could have done it, that would have been bad too. IF Trump could actually do it now, then our country is even more flawed than many of us are aware of it to be.

Results are almost always contested these days... even if not officially. People rant about it for years after... just like the winner keeps holding rallies even after he has won for some reason. There is voting fraud and manipulation. It's almost an American tradition. Who knows to the degree it affects elections... but it is there and has been since the beginning. Oh, and both sides are guilty of it. No clean hands. Voter suppression is a tradition as well. Happens all the time. It's bad... but it is not anything new.

There really isn't too much new under the sun. There are cycles... but the things happening were here before and will come back around again... sadly... because people suck.

 

[DarkRange55]

Our friend Dejected55 is right.


I've said all this on here before. Remember the drones in NJ? They were not resolved — just as I predicted. I had already pretty much determined that Trump was a puppet, a fake person, part of the show, only there because he's allowed to be there. It's the only thing that explains his ability to continue to fail upward — to continue to be given more and more power in a country that supposedly is doing all these things to stop him. It explains why he just continues to do all the stuff that Bush, Clinton, Obama — all these people — did. Except he's got a different face on it. He's wrestling. It's not real. Not that it's not "real," I want to be clear with my terms here. When I say that something is not real, I don't mean it didn't happen. I mean that it is presented to you, curated to you, directed at you in a certain way to elicit a certain type of response. It's not being allowed to play out organically. What you are seeing is a show. And that's the genius of the show — its ability to make you believe that it's not a show.

 

[FatGringo]

Texas already did gerrymandering and California responeded