President Trump's SOTU
Affirmed Liberty to Unresponsive Subversives
An hour before Pres. Donald Trump's State
of the Union Address, I opened my mail. It included a thank-you note
regarding a contribution I had made to a right-wing
organization. The author of the note quoted Nikita Khrushchev, who
said, "You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept
communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until
you finally wake up and find you already have communism." The
author of the thank-you note was revolted by this remark by N.K. and knew I would
be as well.
I grew up during the Cold War and
understood that communism was not merely an alternative theory of politics and
economics to that held by most Americans, but was a living and breathing threat
to our freedom emanating 24-7 from the USSR, the PRC, and a determined fifth
column of traitorous leftists living in these United States. Our
conflict with communism was not a mere academic or drawing room debate between
gentleman-scholars. Rather, the ardent supporters of communism
wished to extract the essence of our freedom and opportunities from our
society.
In the name of curbing the rich, they wish
to curb us all, grab power, assert governmental force over every area of our
lives, and make themselves arbiters of every life decision we make – where we
live, what kind of work each of us does, where and when we can and cannot
travel, how to heat our homes or even build our homes, where to go to school,
how many children to have, how long we live and under what conditions we live,
and even the thoughts we think. Almost all that we now consider
"private" they would refashion and reconfigure to be seen as
"public." Our individual rights would be subsumed under
collective rights.
As Richard Overy relates in his remarkable
volume, The Dictators: Hitler's
Germany, Stalin's Russia, under the Soviet Union system of law, a
person could be deemed guilty of a crime simply because he was documented to
have had thoughts similar
to the thoughts of those who actually plotted and committed a crime
even if he had had no part in planning or carrying out the
crime. Thus, when I see Bernie Sanders's bespectacled face, I see
not just another person with whom I have some differences of opinion, but,
behind his college professor visage, a hideous expression of hatred for all
that we hold dear. In like manner do I perceive the other leftists
of the Democratic Party with their pro-communism agenda despite their attempts
to present those views as mainstream or make them sound less threatening by
calling them socialistic.
Pres. Donald Trump spat in the face of the
socialists and socialists in sheep's clothing of the Democratic Party during
Tuesday evening's State of the Union address. "America was founded on
liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination, and
control," he said to Republican applause. He continued,
"We are born free and we will stay free. Tonight, we renew our
resolve that America will never be a socialist country." These
sentences cleared the air. There is no hiding from the truth
encapsulated in these words. Fresh air blew through the hall and
could be felt over the airwaves.
The Democrats should be repudiating the
extreme leftists in their party; instead, they are embracing the far left
ideology. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Democrats went through a
crisis where they had to repudiate the extreme left wing of the party, which
roughly can be designated as those led by Henry Wallace. President
Harry Truman fired Wallace from his position as secretary of commerce because
he perceived Wallace as being too conciliatory toward the Soviet
Union. Wallace subsequently formed the Progressive Party and ran for
president against Truman and the Republican candidate, Thomas Dewey, in 1948
but garnered only 2.4% of the vote. Here was a case where the
Democratic Party's leader repudiated the far-left wing of that
party. Nevertheless, it was an ironic and striking reality that a
large percentage of the Socialist Party platform of 1912 had been implemented
in the U.S., including the graduated income tax, by the time Wallace was
rejected. Most of the implementation came during the New Deal under
President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Only in their program of "Collective
Ownership" were the goals of the Socialist Party not met over
time. The people of the U.S. decided on regulation instead of
ownership. The socialists wanted ownership of all banks, all
transportation, all mines, all means of communication, and all land.
Similar trends can be seen in the labor
movement in the 1940s era. Many unions that had been strongly
supportive of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt because of his initiative in getting the
Wagner Act through Congress at the same time tried to purge their ranks of communist
leadership. My own father was a union activist with the Transport
Workers' Union. That union had been formed both by men who were
communist unionists and by non-communist unionists. Under the
leadership of Michael Quill, whose base was staunchly Irish Catholic and still
held many so-called "bourgeois values," repudiated and kicked out the communist wing of
the union, also in 1948, as the Cold War picked up a head of steam.
Earlier in the century, Eugene V. Debs had
run for president three times as leader of the Socialist Party, but his aggressive objection to World War I led
to his imprisonment and severely set back the socialist-communist agenda in the
U.S.
Make no mistake about it: the Socialist
Party was adamantly against private ownership of property. One need
only read its platform of 1912 to see
that. Labeling themselves socialists to distinguish themselves from
communists should be taken with a grain of salt. Early on, the
socialists realized that the word "communism" had so many negative
connotations for Americans that the term "socialism" would be more
palatable to the citizenry. However, their desire to control (not
merely regulate) all major industries was explicit, with control of smaller
industries and businesses implied.
By the last presidential election of 2016,
the platform of the socialists had morphed into 248 bullet points, a
veritable stew of negativism that advocated for intense federal controls to
invade almost every area of American life. Today's Democrats are no
longer repudiating communist ideas and ideals, but are embracing in ever
greater numbers its calls for universal Medicare, universal free higher
education, open borders under the rubric of compassion, elimination of the
electoral college, and an embrace of worldwide climate change agendas with a
massive redistribution of wealth to the Third World and ever increasing government
controls over every detail of daily life. These policy themes that
would require a tremendous curtailment of freedom are being embraced and
advocated by Democrats rather than repudiated.
The communist focus of 1948 was repudiated
by the Democrats of 1948, but it is being incorporated as the mainstream ideas
and ideals of that party today, and individual choice and individual
property rights are disparaged. During the State of the Union
address, President Trump spoke forcefully and directly into the faces of
subversion. Although many on the left were dressed in white, they
represented the dark side of humanity. All the purity was in Trump's
liberty-loving remarks.
The Hijacking of a
Presidential Election
In January of 2017, the Federal Election
Commission reported that in the 2016 general election Mrs. Clinton received
65,853,516 votes and Mr. Trump received 62,984,825 votes. Clinton therefore
beat Trump by 2,868,691 popular votes.
President Trump has said that if
the illegal
votes were
deducted that he would have won the popular vote. If one looks at that FEC
report,
one sees that in California, the state with the most illegal aliens, Clinton
got 8,753,788 votes, while Trump got 4,483,810 votes. So Clinton beat Trump in
California by 4,269,978 votes.
What’s interesting is that
Clinton beat Trump by more votes in California than she did nationwide,
precisely 1,401,287 more votes. Though Trump’s claim that illegal voting threw
the popular vote to Clinton is sheer speculation, we can say that if we exclude
California that Trump did in fact win the popular vote in the rest of the
nation, and by exactly 1,401,287 votes.
Because Trump didn’t get any
electoral votes in California and New York, when we subtract the electoral
votes of those two states, Clinton won just 143 electoral votes in the rest of
the nation while Trump’s electoral total remains unchanged at 304. In the
Electoral College, which is what we use to elect our presidents, Trump beats
Clinton by more than 2-to-1 when California and New York are excluded. Even if
the votes of the seven faithless
electors were
given to Clinton, Trump would still have trounced Clinton by more than 2-1 in
the 48 states of “real America.”
It takes a bare minimum of 270
electoral votes to win the presidency. Had Clinton received all 46 electoral
votes in the blue wall states of Wisconsin,
Michigan, and Pennsylvania, she would have gotten 273 electoral votes. She then
could afford to lose only the least populous of those three states, Wisconsin,
and still prevail, but only if she were also awarded all seven votes of the
faithless electors. In which case, Clinton would have won with a grand total of
270 electoral votes.
Government officials have assured
us that Russians did not change the vote counts in 2016. Elections are
conducted by the states, and each state has its own separate election system,
so changing the votes would be enormously difficult. And besides, “there is no
serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig
America’s elections, in part because they’re so
decentralized.”
We were told this by no less than Obama Himself, (so it must be true).
Obama fails to see the obvious.
If the Russians wanted to throw the popular vote to Trump in 2016, all they
would have needed to change is the popular vote in just one state, California
with its 55 electoral votes… not the entire country. Trump could have
even lost his three “blue wall” states and still have won had he gotten
California, and he’d have had an even greater total at 313 electoral votes.
Some progressives think we should
junk the Electoral College and elect presidents with the popular vote. Other
progressives think we should rejigger the College and allocate its votes in a
way that is closer to the popular vote. But if one believes in federalism, the
above data argues just the opposite. We can’t have the preferences of two
populous coastal states being imposed on the other 48 states merely because
they have some tiny majority. That’s especially so when those two states are so
very different from the rest of the country. Let California have its tent
cities, its free healthcare for illegal aliens, and its San Francisco values, but leave
us “hicks” in the heartland alone.
Given the above, I think we can say that in 2016 the Electoral
College worked as intended, and that America got the correct president, the one
she needed. Even so, the electoral vote is derived from the popular vote, so
there’s still the nagging little question of what thelegitimate popular
vote count really was.
One of the safeguards to ensuring
the integrity of the popular vote is voter registration. But the states are
failing at this important task. Recently, California came under fire for
registering illegal aliens at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
On October 8, the San Francisco Chronicle ran “California
DMV may have registered noncitizens to vote” by Melody Gutierrez, who quoted
Assemblyman Jim Patterson of Fresno:
“There is much more to see
here than what the DMV is admitting to,” Patterson said. “They have either been
hiding the truth from the public or are completely unaware of this voter
registration disaster -- either should be a startling realization for this governor
and the public... We cannot trust the current management to fix the very
problems they created.”
(But what does Patterson know,
he’s an Anglo. He might even have a MAGA hat.)
The Secretary of State has
responsibility for voter registration in California. But despite the snafus in
his office, Secy. Alex Padilla was re-elected in November, and in a landslide.
On October 10, the New York Times reported in
its “California Today” series: “At the center of the controversy is
California’s new Motor Voter program, which automatically registers eligible
voters who visit the D.M.V. to renew or replace their drivers’ licenses.”
On January 7, Stephen Dinan of
the Washington Times reported on a
settlement to a suit brought by Judicial
Watch (video)
in which Los Angeles County agreed to purge its voter registries of inactive
voters perhaps numbering 1.5 million:
Judicial Watch said it
targeted Los Angeles after finding the county’s total voter population was
higher than the number of people the Census Bureau estimates to be citizens of
voting age in the county. That’s true for the state overall, which Judicial
Watch said has a 101 percent registration rate for its eligible adult
population.
Here’s the thing about
California’s voter registries: a federal law enacted 23 years ago mandates that
only citizens can vote for federal officials. It was called the “Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.” For the operative
language, see SEC. 216 on page 26 of the pdf of the
entire act,
or if you want the short sweet excision, click 18 U.S. Code § 611. Voting by
aliens.
Since they’re corrupted, can
California’s voter registries be used in the election of a federal official?
The problem of illegal aliens on California voter registries isn’t just a
problem at the DMV, as voter registration in California asks
for only the last four digits of one’s SSN. California isn’t doing even the
most basic vetting to comply with the requirement that voters for federal
officials be citizens.
California is by no
means unique, however, as none of the states really verify registrants’
citizenship, not even in Kris Kobach’s Kansas. Perhaps the
Electoral College should reject a state’s votes if that state cannot
demonstrate that all of its registrants and voters are citizens.
The vulnerability of
our federal elections to fraud is just fine and dandy with the Democrats
because they’ve been planning to steal the 2020 election anyway. Why do you
suppose the Dems hate voter ID laws and love open borders? Democrats don’t want
President Trump’s wall precisely because it keeps their voters out. The illegal
alien vote is the Democrats’ “insurance policy.”
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