I’m not a journalist; I just editorialize on current events as seen through my worldview while gleaning from a deliberately broad number of sources. The above email, I get several of these kinds of appeals a day, is the most recent evidence which shows the whole Trump apparatus are shameless… putting it nicely… ‘misrepresenters.’
A little poking around a local source, we find out that, lo and behold, the Trump outfit did win this case concerning extending the deadline until identification could be confirmed. Hurray. Yes, the ballots were invalidated, and rightfully so—rule of law prevailed. This is exactly why counts should always be finished and certified, legal challenges should occur after elections for judges to examine and make rulings on the law, and any cases of fraud be turned over to law enforcement to maintain the integrity and our faith in elections. Again, hurray, because if we really want to screw up our country in a big, big way, just undermine our trust in the validity of our elections.
However, it is, firstly, jumping the gun to state maleficence was behind the extension. Given the small number of ballots involved with granting the extension casts doubt upon the notion that those who allowed it in first place believed they could throw the election by doing this. The MAJOR WIN described in the email appeal for money was little more than the ordinary grind of policing the election process—the decision does not affect the plain fact that Biden won. To say that Team Trump is the only one defending the integrity of the election is a brazen insult to the thousands of people who defend the election process, vital to maintaining peaceful transitions of power and legitimacy, as a moral imperative and a sacred duty.
Secondly, it is highly misleading to imply to those who’ve sold themselves to the idea that it is (only?) democrats who engage in fraud and deceit that somehow this MAJOR WIN means Trump has a chance at legitimately winning the election. The repeated calls for money and activism to protest not only the process, but the results, of the election, bears with it a serious risk of violence and civil unrest.
These PATRIOTS have long been primed to believe the only way Trump could lose is through massive fraud and deceit by deep state democrats. Trump has lost but maintains, without providing evidence, that massive fraud MUST be there. Many, a dangerous number of people, believe him. In such an environment, where mere accusations without the backing of evidence to substantiate the claim, the notion that Trump, and his apparatus, are the ones defending the integrity of the election would be laughable if it weren’t so terrifying.
Trump was hired to break the machine, and he is doing one hellava job. Thanks to all the lies and tantrums from our Toddler-in-Chief, our fundamental belief in sharing power in ritual transfers of such determined by our, so far, enduring laws and traditions is under an existential threat. Much rests in the heavily engineered and AI (social media) peddled lies that Trump is working hard to defend us and freedom. The evidence is abundant, from this human’s perspective, that Trump is working for Trump. If he must burn it all to the ground to ‘win,’ he’ll do it. Trump’s lack of character in stoking the fires of Q-anon, by his channeling of grievances and resentments to keep the hopes of millions of the faithful alive that he may maintain power, thus proving the ‘prophecies’ to be true, demonstrates this.
May ‘we’ and ‘he’ not succeed. My prayer,
Father forgive us for we do not know what we do. We’ve squandered our intellectual faculties and forgone our moral responsibility to examine the evidence to take the lazy road, funneling into echo chambers which prop up the illusion of freedom, peace, and the safety of no acceptable challenges to our belief. Our neglect has atrophied our ability to reason and compromise with each other to some mean of truth—accepting the top-down, ‘God’ given structure of governance. We seek not to make disciples but subjects.
Now as we see it, there is just ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Just as the machines reason to truth, so now do we. It’s just numbers. Inside our sacred sanctuaries, our threatened numbers bear the warrant for action—there is no other legitimate side as we believe the ‘others’ are for, and bring, death and chaos. We’ve convinced ourselves that we are the persecuted and not the persecutors. Hence, we, in our proclaimed righteousness, shall not submit to the system which allows murder to continue, while failing to recognize we are all murderers in dire need of your mercy.
Forgive us for we have been deceived by the (self-appointed) holiest among us that we must mobilize behind a racist, misogynistic, narcissistic liar to make the ‘others’ acquiesce to the truth that we (and God) care about everyone. We fail to recognize that in backing such a man, we’ve told the worst within us that it is good and necessary to be self-centered racists to maintain the order of the way things ‘ought’ to be. We’ve forgotten that you Father have the power to make us all behave but, in mercy and love, you don’t. Forgive us for taking it into our minds that we must take power into our own hands to correct your (perceived) mistake. May our hearts be wounded and broken.
Father please give us the mercy we do not deserve.