It’s hard to imagine more different individuals than Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden.
Before becoming President, Jimmy Carter served as a nuclear sub engineer in the U.S. Navy, came home to Georgia and grew a successful small business, then entered small town politics and worked his way up to the governorship of Georgia. Along the way, Carter proved himself to be a man of virtue and ideals. Still to this day he does good works and has more top-ten finishes of Gallup’s annual poll of most admired American man than anyone except Billy Graham and Carter’s successor as President, Ronald Reagan.
Biden, on the other hand, is a lifelong creature of the Swamp. He showed an early knack for cobbling together voters for a succession of federal offices culminating in a Senate seat, the Vice-Presidency, and finally, his assuming the Presidency now. Along the way, Biden has said whatever necessary to keep office, has enriched his family and friends through graft and kickbacks, and now in the years of his physical and mental decline, he is the Left’s string puppet for continuing the sabotage of American exceptionalism begun by the Obama administration in 2009.
Where Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden are alike is this: They both benefited from a backlash election. Jimmy Carter was swept into office in 1976 by the voters’ reaction to the humiliation of our retreat from Vietnam and Richard Nixon’s sin of lying about the Watergate scandal. In 2020, leveraging the social media trope “Orange man bad” with the Leftist base, a cabal of corporate and Swamp creatures maneuvered Biden into office.
In a normal year with normal political forces at work, neither Carter nor Biden would stand a chance at election.
Well-meaning as he was, Carter proved his inability to lead the country effectively in office and was promptly voted out by a landslide four years later. But what about Biden? Will the American people be able to vote Biden out, or more likely his replacement, the totally inexperienced and unpopular Kamala Harris? Or if those two actually surprise us all and do a good job, can we be sure they will be legitimately re-elected?
The answer is emphatically NO. Given the questions about the 2020 election, we cannot be sure at all that there will ever be another clean significant election in the United States. Yet there seems to be a dome of silence over the whole issue. At most, pundits keep saying that the Republicans will be more ready next time! We’ll have poll watchers everywhere! State legislatures will tighten up the laws!
Fat chance that any of that is going to work. It is all vague wishfulness. If there are indeed forces at work in the American system intent on subverting the American democratic republic for their own profit, you can bet they are not sitting around wishing. They have been hard at work finding ways to rig the system harder in their favor. Many of us believe 2020 was their first big coup at it and they will not rest on their laurels.
And no wonder everyone is afraid to talk about it. Key challengers have been threatened and indeed served with billion dollar lawsuits by the cartel that has control of nearly all the voting apparatus used throughout the country to tally results, and on the other hand those who even dare question the results are shut down by the platforms they rely upon to get their views out.
But there is one way to ensure we get legitimate election results. The Founding Fathers recognized that the forces of tyranny were always a threat to democracies, and that tyranny tended to grow in mobs. That is why they created a government with a Congress composed of both a Senate and a House of Representatives and with the Electoral College to protect minority interests, to keep the mobsters from always having their way over the many. As an ultimate protection, they included in Article V of the Constitution a way for Constitutional amendments to grow from the states themselves rather than from Congress, which they rightly imagined was prone to corruption.
Why is an amendment necessary? Because it is not subject to legal review, it cannot be watered down by secondary measures passed by Congress, it cannot be subverted: an amendment IS THE LAW. Thus, if we want election integrity, we must make it the law of the land by enshrining it in a Constitutional amendment. Let’s call it the Voter’s Rights Amendment (the VRA) because its goal is to ensure that every vote counts – that one citizen’s vote is not cancelled out by a false vote somewhere else.
The VRA should have 100% nonpartisan support. Anyone against it has to have an ax to grind – money to be made or power to be had off crooked elections. The presumption is that 99% of American citizens whether Democrat or Republican or anywhere else on the spectrum are honest and want their government to be honest as well. All should support a VRA, not just to give them an honest chance at governing, but to make sure when they win, they have the support of all voters, not just the “winners.”
Details of the VRA need to be hammered out as with any other legislative proposal to ensure that it applies to all fairly and effectively, but here are some starting principles: A voter ID requirement. Single day, in-person voting except by validated absentee ballot. Paper balloting. And manual tabulation, always filmed, witnessed, and sealed by local law enforcement.
And here’s the good news: Although ratifying Constitutional amendments that originate from the states is a complicated and normally slow-moving process, much of the work to make it possible has already been done by the Convention of States movement. Visit the site. Educate yourself about it. And contact your local pundits, elected officials, and fellow citizens to get the ball rolling on the VRA. Whether your next vote will count depends on it.
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