Another presidential election has come and gone… sort of. Keep in mind that we technically voted for the electors rather than the president. The actual presidential election has not yet taken place. That said, I wanted to take some time to vent about some of my issues with the election.
This year, the Washington Post declined to endorse a candidate. Admittedly, the timing of this announcement was questionable, but this doesn't mean that not endorsing a candidate is somehow inexcusable. Throughout the campaigning, the Washington Post provided an intentionally skewed and dishonest narrative to help Harris win the election, but that wasn't enough for everyone. Numerous liberals have either canceled their subscriptions or threatened to cancel because they didn't explicitly tell voters to vote for Harris.
In all fairness, I'm a bit biased myself. I have openly criticized because-I-said-so politics for years. I never vote for a candidate because I like his endorsements. That said, I will vote against candidates if I have issues with their endorsements. For example, if a candidate accepts an endorsement from an anti-child hate group that actively promotes mental genocide such as the NEA and AFT, I refuse to be responsible for giving them any power. I also voted against a judge for touting endorsements from hyper-partisan politicians. Judges should be non-partisan.
The Washington Post isn't the only news liberal news agency that has received backlash. Any news agency that didn't lie enough to help Harris was accused of normalizing Trump's behavior. I have seen this accusation against the New York Times, another liberal propaganda factory.
It appears that the Washington Post and New York Times failed to dictate the outcome of the election. Donald Trump is not only projected to win the electoral vote, but he is also projected to win the popular vote. I'm not a Trump fan, but I feel somewhat relieved that the corrupt American media was unsuccessful.
Shortly after Trump was declared the projected winner, Democrats were quick to point out that there were 20 million fewer voters for this election compared to the last. They viewed that as proof that the Republicans cheated. Republican countered that last election's results were the anomaly. They insisted that the Democrats inadvertently proved that they rigged the last election. I had a different perspective but let me go to my next complaint first.
A lot of people criticized Arizona and Nevada for their slow counting. To an extent, this makes sense. Those were the two last states to be called. The problem with this was that it was actually a combination of slow counts and the closeness of the vote. If you really want to criticize a state for counting slowly, you couldn't realistically criticize Arizona and Nevada without also criticizing California. They were much slower. Personally, I am fine with states taking their time.
There were some people who used the vote count discrepancy as proof of cheating while also criticizing Arizona and Nevada. Do you see the problem? We were comparing final vote counts from the last election to an election with millions of outstanding ballots. Even as I'm writing this, states are still counting votes.
I have been pretty open that I am not a Trump fan. Trump may have run as a Republican while trying to pander to a conservative base, but Trump himself is a Democrat. He was even impeached by the Democrats for acting like a Democrat. He abused his power like Barack Obama, resorted to quid pro quo like Joe Biden, and turned to a foreign agent to dig up dirt on a political foe just like Hillary Clinton. I would have taken that more seriously if the Democrats didn't insist that it was perfectly acceptable when they did the same.
There's a lot of overlap between the two parties. On specific issues, the parties tend to take opposite sides, but what if you look past the surface? Look at the underlying reasons why people support their party's views. Both parties embrace partisan conformity where they think whatever their preferred party tells them to think. They both nominate horrible candidates in hopes that they can fuel enough hatred of the other side to win elections.
Trump doesn't even know what Republicans actually stand for. He frequently gets it wrong. Thanks to partisan conformity, his supporters completely change their views based on Trump's mistakes. Throughout all of this, he has taken what I hate from the Democrats, especially in terms of personal behavior and political tactics, and brought them to the Republican party. One of my biggest criticisms of Trump is that he has been transforming the Republican party into the second Democratic party.
The bottom line is that we had two Democrats running against each other. Actually, there was another Democrat in the picture, Robert Kennedy. After he was villainized by his own party for not being 100% in compliance with his party's leaders, he decided to run as an independent candidate. He dropped out ahead of the election, but he was still on several ballots. Despite his status, let's not kid ourselves. Kennedy is a Democrat.
The three Democrats on the ballot took almost 99% of the popular vote. I can proudly state that I was among the just over one percent of voters who dared to vote against one-party rule. This also shows why we need election reform.
Admittedly, I don't have any good ideas for how to handle election reform. I know switching to a popular vote won't work. That would do absolutely nothing to address the two arms of the uniparty colluding to suppress alternatives. There has also been a push for ranked-choice voting. That can at least help people who want to vote for someone better, but it still doesn't address the collusion.
Do you want a properly functioning democracy? Stop giving people a reason to hate voting. Instead of forcing us to choose between two atrocious like-minded politicians, why don't you give us at least one candidate who is actually worthy of our votes? I hate elections, and I'm sure I'm not alone. I don't want to vote for bad just because that's all the Republicrats will give us. I want to vote for good.
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