Tag: 2024 election

Back on the Rails in 2025

Most of America watched in horror and dismay while our great nation left the rails over the past four years. As the radical left abandoned biblical principles, moral absolutes, fiscal responsibilities, and even constitutional articles, too many sane patriots passively grumbled but failed to act in opposition. Thank God the 2024 election was a watershed when the silent majority finally proclaimed, “Enough!”

The last two months have seen our nation begin to upright the national train wreck and start the heavy task of lifting it back on to the rails. For several decades American culture has been on a slippery slope into a dark place of confused values. Influential segments of our society were calling right, wrong and wrong, right. This misguided movement was led by the entertainment industry, mainstream news media, educational institutions, liberal business leaders, and leftist polilticians. This phenomena is not new. It has recurred throughout human history. The prophet, Isaiah, wrote almost three millennia ago, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter (Isaiah 5:20).” From generation to generation, morally upright societies have cowardly acquiesced to their internal evil practitioners who dragged them down to corruption and debauchery. This as good people remained silent and tolerant. Such has been gradually occuring in America, but it reached a boiling point over the past four years.

Since 2021, our federal, state, and local governments, along with other major institutions, have fostered a societal transformation that has been destroying the very fabric of our society. The failure of godly citizens to object has encouraged the invasion of millions of unauthorized immigtrants–many of whom are hardened criminals. Radicals have taken away the moral innocence of our children by corrupting their understanding of natural gender and sexual attraction. They have perverted the definition of marriage and family. They have put tax-payers enormously further in debt for unnecessary and politically expedient projects and services. They have diluted the justice system as criminals are labeled victims and victims are neglected. Our foreign policies have allowed our enemies to advance as our weakened military has been underfunded and hung up on “woke” objectives.

But America just made a hard right turn. When poet, Alexander Pope, wrote, “Hope springs eternal in every human breast,” he described how our nation’s patriots have awakened. Pent-up frustrations of the majority of citizens have exploded. Last November’s turning-point election was a gauntlet thrown down by right-thinking Americans using the voting booth to scream,”We’re not going to take it anymore!”

Frankly, I held little anticipation that it would happen. I shamedly admit that I had largely lost hope in my country. I was convinced that we as a people were going to continue the death spiral that has been the destiny of so many other nations throughout history. My spirit mourned for my children and grandchildren who wouldn’t enjoy the life I had been blessed with. But, praise God, I now have a renewed faith in where this great country is headed. For me, the election revealed that the silent majority was no longer going to remain silent. Millions who feared being labeled insensitive if they didn’t tolerate the the radical socialists finally rebelled. It restored my hope for my country. Of course, I realize it may be just a short reprieve. I may live to see us go off the rails again. But the course correction we are presently experiencing is to be celebrated. It should cause all conservatives to recommit to seizing this new year as an opportunity to Make America Great Again!

You may be thinking my rose-colored glasses have put me over the top in my newly acquired view of the world. Well, maybe. But I do have a much better outlook for the America I love and serve than I did a couple of months ago. Let’s take a moment to thank the Lord for not giving up on this nation and for putting us back on the rails. Pray that 2025 will be a year America will someday look back on as the time of national recovery and rehabilitation. We may not have the opportunity to survive another train wreck. God said, “My Spirit shall not always strive with man (Genesis 6:3).” Let us call on His help as we move this train forward in a better journey ahead. A journey that will not fall prey to the radical left again.

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The Great American Scam

America is setting itself up to fall for the biggest scam in its history. God led our founding fathers to form the greatest free market capitalist democracy ever known to mankind. Now, this great nation is embracing the lies, deceptions, and brainwashing of a political party obsessed with dragging the country into socialism.

Our race to the bottom began in 2020 with the questionable election of Joe Biden, an extremely liberal president. His decisions on the economy, immigration, government spending, the military, foreign affairs, and moral values grossly defied American standards and common sense. Biden chose Kamala Harris as his vice president. She was the least logical choice among numerous candidates, but she was a black woman which met his announced DEI criteria. After three-and-a-half years, both Biden and Harris were polling as one of the worst performing Executive Branch teams in our history. At that point, very bizarre things started happening.

President Biden “suspended” his reelection campaign under overwhelming pressure from his own party, and Harris was “coronated” the new Democratic presidential candidate. This was the Democrats’ choice for the leader of the free world although she had failed miserably in her presidential race primary, was described as likely the worst vice president in history, was a far-left radical, and had no record of doing much of anything in her VP position. However, at the time of her no-primary nomination, there was seemingly a miracle happening in the Democratic Party. Suddenly, Kamala Harris was the queen of the ball. She was instantly deemed highly intelligent, an excellent leader with a long, sterling record of accomplishments, and a moderate on the political spectrum. The Cinderella woman received a magic make-over concocted by her party and the news media.

Vice President Harris served less than one term in the Senate. VoteView, an independent organization that ranks senators according to their left-right voting record, listed Harris as the second most liberal Senator in the 21st century–more liberal than Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders. As California’s attorney general, her official actions consistenly reflected an extreme leftest philosophy. She passionately supported defunding law enforcement, bail for hardened criminals, virtually unlimited abortion, extreme environmentalism, Medicare for all, overarching government control, and a host of other Marxist beliefs. Then, her radical Socialist world view immediately flip-flopped toward the center when she became a presidential candidate.

Now, at less than two months from election day, she still refuses to talk about those long-held values that would repulse nearly every American and is focusing almost solely on her false whiplash turn to a moderate view. She knew she couldn’t win the election advocating her real beliefs. Even Bernie Sanders said she was flip-flopping her positions to get elected. In her heart, she is still the same radical Socialist she was from her early adult life through her vice presidency.

Many Americans see right through this thinly-veiled facade. But, sadly, many–perhaps most–of our population is mesmerized by her appealing rhetoric, her false promises, and her younger age. Almost everything she says can be credibly countered based on years of previous statements and actions. She is a hologram–a counterfeit person who is not really whom she pretends to be. The news media, the performing arts community, and the academia elites, fronts for the Democratic Party and purveyors of Socialism, are apparently willing to go to any length to ensure Harris’s success. We must not only question every word that comes from Harris’s mouth, but also every report about her from these sources.

Half of America is taking the bait hook, line, and sinker. They are being taken for a ride in the biggest scam ever foisted on our nation. Pray that enough victims of this fraud see the light of truth before they cast their vote. We must not allow the leader of America and the free world to be a radical Socialist.

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My Prediction: Neither Biden nor Trump

Way out on a limb here, and against broad consensus, I believe the two leading candidates for America’s next-term president will be absent from the November 5, 2024, ballot. My opinion of how that would happen is the topic of this post with which few will agree.

I have recently heard many people express something like, “With over 340 million people in America, is this really the best we can find?” Of course, only about 160 million would be qualified to be president, but still. I have to admit, this time last year, I never thought President Biden or former President Trump would be the front runners by huge margins two months prior to the first primary elections. I also have to concede that apparently both will win their respective primaries.

However, I don’t believe that Biden actually plans to serve a second term. Despite his cognitive deficiences, he has to recognize that his other incompentencies and unpopularity would be devastating for our nation. But he also realizes an announcement to not seek a second term would make him a lame duck with little influence for the rest of his term. Trump, on the other hand, will not likely bow out without extremely heavy pressure from his party leaders. I believe there will come a time, probably after the primaries, when his legal encumbrances and his increasingly narcissistic behavior will force his withdrawal from the race. I predict this scenario would set up an unprecedented situation resulting in the most chaotic presidential election in our nation’s history. Thankfully, there are policies and procedures for such a predicament.

First, a little background. Although voters at the primary polls choose their general election presidential candidates, it is technically the Republican and Democratic national conventions that have the final say regarding their parties’ nominees. Convention delegates from all states selected through state processes, and coordinated with the respective party’s national committee, vote on each party’s candidate. Most of these candidates are “pledged” or “bound” to vote according to their states’ majority votes, at least in the first rounds of voting. A few are “unpledged” or “superdelegates” who are allowed to vote their conscience regardless of their state vote. The 2024 Republican Convention at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 15-18, 2024, will have 2,469 delegates with 104 unpledged. The Democratic Convention at Chicago, Illinois, August 19-22, 2024, will have 4,532 delegates with 744 superdelegates. If the votes are close, the voting may go several rounds until there is a majority winner. At some point in multiple rounds, the pledged or bound delegates are released to vote their conscience rather than with their state majority.

I envision a case where both Biden and Trump win their respective primary elections, after which both will withdraw from the general election within days before their national conventions. That will allow each of them to claim they would have won a second term while releasing their parties to run other candidates in America’s best interests. Of course, it would throw the conventions into unprecedented disarray. The delegates would coordinate with their respective state committees with the vast majority voting for their states’ second choices. There would likely be several rounds of votes in each convention. Eventually, a Republican and a Democrat candidate would rise to the top and enter the general election.

The next three or four months would see the wildest presidential campaigns of our lifetimes. The two (or three) unanticipated candidates would be doing whatever it takes to sway the massive voting public in a very short period of time. Ultimately, the 2024 making of the election sausage would be from a rare recipe that might produce the best outcome for America in a long while.

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America Must Fix Its Voting System

Mailed ballots, voting machine failures, software corruption, illegal votes, uncounted votes, long lines, denied oversight, trashed ballots, and delayed vote counting. How can America lead the world in technology and have a third-world voting system? Let’s look at what must change before 2024.

Although Giuliani’s team is not likely to get the presidential election reversed (but it’s getting really interesting), what they are finding should embarrass every American voter–Democrat and Republican. Why are election credibility and confidence at an all time low? Technology has enhanced much of our voting process, but we are still conducting our elections with relatively little change from a century ago. In this day when we can securely order anything we want on our computer or phone and get it in a day or two, why do we drive somewhere, stand in long lines, vote on strange, vulnerable machines, and wait perhaps weeks for questionable results? Hopefully, this is the year that brings all the vulnerabilities and corruption to surface.

No sane person would consider me qualified to resolve this complex problem. But it doesn’t take a genius to see how abysmal our election process is and what seems like the obvious fix. Over 80% of American adults use computers regularly. Probably another 10% can use them successfully if necessary. So, let’s say 90% of registered voters could do all of their voting online. Certainly, hardware and software sophisticated enough to securely and accurately process 150 million votes could be developed.

Congress should appropriate money as soon as possible to contract with prominent hardware and software companies to build a national voting system with sufficient security and redundancy to accommodate local, state, and national elections. This could be developed in highly classified environs like the development of secret weapons and intelligence systems to avoid any potential for compromise by foreign or domestic enemies. After roll-out of the platforms, everyone qualified to vote would have to re-register, and their secure information would be entered into the system. This would purge the rolls and create a fresh start. Then, voters would have to re-register every year thereafter in order to keep the rolls updated. No annual registration, no vote.

Each state would have its own separate access to the system for its local and state elections. The presidential election would continue to be based on each state’s election policies, but would use the technology of the national system. The votes of individual voters would be immediately matched with the the state and national databases to ensure only one ballot per person is counted.

Voters would have one week leading up to election day to vote to allow for sickness, travel, etc. No mail-in or absentee ballots would be necessary, since voting would not be restricted to location. Voters could log on to their voter website any time 24/7 for their personalized ballot. A unique ID and foolproof password would be required for each voter. These would be randomly generated by the system shortly before the voting. They would have to match the system’s record in its database. The system would accept no votes after the state’s election day closing time.

On election night after all votes are in, the system would tally the millions of votes in a matter of minutes for all levels of the election, and results would be known by the entire nation by bedtime on the east coast. Immediate statistical analysis would be available for the media pundits. The analytics would be almost unlimited as to how people voted collectively. All this and not one finger would have to touch ballots. No poll workers would be needed except for a few to assist the computer challenged.

That 10% or so who would need help with their voting could go to a few sparsely manned polls in each community for assistance. They would be helped through the same process that everyone else was using but on a secure touch-screen computer.

Will America do this or something similar? Or will we find ourselves in the same mess in 2024? It’s past time for our country to bring our elections into the 21st century. I plan to “share” this post with my Congressman and Senators and hope you will do the same.

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