Normal American: No Other Way Out

This originally appeared on Normal American. -NCS

History suggests that when enough voters realize an important election is stolen, things get messy. If enough Trump supporters conclude this happened on Election Day, the outcome is likely to be unpredictable, and not in a way that our betters will enjoy.

The term for this species of fraud is electoral authoritarianism. It happens when a nation’s ruling elites maintain a façade of a democratic process. Opposition parties are allowed to win some races, but not the ones that matter.

Think Algeria, Yemen, Zambia, Ethiopia, Gambia, and Kyrgyzstan. Voting still happens, but the results have been predetermined. The system is rigged.

Electoral authoritarianism is not necessarily easy to detect. Politicians rigging an election want to appear legitimate. Even Fidel liked to claim that Cuba was a democracy.

The invidious group of people inhabiting organizations like the U.N. devote their lives to undermining traditional American values like enforceable national borders and the right to keep and bear arms.

Yet even these wretches cough up something useful on occasion. One example is a checklist designed to let independent observers evaluate the fairness of an election. To figure out whether something untoward is afoot, you consider:

  • Accuracy of voter registration lists
  • Alteration of voter registration lists
  • Procedures for vote tabulation
  • Ability of citizens to participate in campaigns without fear of harassment or violence
  • Absence of vote buying
  • Party and observer monitoring
  • Procedures used in all steps of the vote count
  • Purchase and intimidation of voters
  • Falsification of ballots on election day

One of these checklists is touted by the Washington, D.C.-based National Democratic Institute, which supposedly works toward election integrity. Of course the NDI is too busy celebrating Nancy Pelosi’s “staunch defense of democracy” at an event next month to worry about anything as mundane as a stolen election at home.

We have been lectured by our betters since 2016 that the U.S. election apparatus is terribly vulnerable to meddling. Then, starting at approximately 5 am ET on November 4, the message flipped. Since then we have been lectured that the U.S. election apparatus could never be vulnerable to meddling. MSNBC and CNN treat reports of fraud about as seriously as Bigfoot sightings.

Our ruling elites expect us to internalize the contradictions. If you believe that Moscow might be up to some mischief, you can be a member of Congress. If you believe that Philadelphia or Detroit might be up to some mischief, you must be an insane conspiracy theorist and probably a racist too.

Electoral authoritarianism includes media organizations serving as propagandists for the ruling elites. Jimmy Carter’s Carter Center says: “Free and fair elections depend to a significant degree upon the ability of the news media to function in an impartial and professional manner.” The center warns that “biased broadcast campaign coverage” can “shift the balance of political forces.”

In 1991, a U.N. team came up with guidelines saying it “strongly encourages” the media to “present a balance of views” and to “solicit a wide spectrum of opinion.” Also: “Media outlets should give parties, groups or individuals whose views have been misrepresented or maligned by a publication or broadcast the ‘right of response’ in the same outlet.”

This describes precisely the opposite of our increasingly unhinged journalists, who have been spending their time threatening Trump supporters, labeling them “maggots,” and calling them “white supremacists.”

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald gets it right: “TV personalities on MSNBC and CNN know the only chance they have to keep people watching is to terrorize them into high levels of adrenaline and fear. So they have spent 4 years shrieking about fascist coups, concentration camps, and Nazi dictatorships. It’s deplorable.”

Voters will probably tolerate a modest degree of election meddling. But if it’s seen as enough to tilt a presidential election, the apparent losing side might decide to do something about it. This can happen even if there was not enough fraud to tilt the outcome, but the supposed winners act like they have something to hide.

A Comparative Politics article says that flagrant vote stealing “rips away the last remnants of regime legitimacy and removes whatever doubts there may have remained about the rightfulness of revolutionary action.”

The article warns: “Electoral autocrats change the character of their rule abruptly by stealing an election. The uncertainty produced by the political competition still ongoing in these kinds of regimes is replaced by the certainty that change through institutionalized channels alone will be impossible. Political closure through a stolen election leads to the realization that there is ‘no other way out’ than revolutionary action.”

Americans might put it more succinctly. If there’s “no other way out,” then they might conclude it’s time to shoot the bastards. If that happens, God help us all.

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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

7 Comments

  1. Johnny Paratrooper November 23, 2020 at 19:05

    Well said.
    FYI, the entire media was served official whistleblower reports over the past several years.
    This was on purpose. It is illegal and unlawful to ignore whistleblower reports.
    All foreign, domestic, and domestic intelligence assets in our media have been served notices this afternoon.
    They are gonna change their tune real quick.
    We have them trapped. They are now criminally liable for cooperating and enabling.

    Tucker walked right into a trap. Dumbass…
    It’s called a Flush. Sidney had a royal flush, he knew it, and we flushed him out.
    Tucker could EASILY have used all the open source evidence that’s already been posted.
    And yet, his dumbass walked right into.
    He ain’t the first, or last., to disappoint members of this community.

    In other news, We zeroed 4 guns on Saturday.
    I can shoot a half dollar with my .357 revolver at 25 meters with 50% accuracy. Missed shots are +/- 2 inches
    Not bad for a weapon I can stick in my pocket…
    The AK needs some more rounds down the pipe. I know those things can shoot a ragged hole at 25 meters.
    Confirmed zero on our Sub-guns. Those things were still dead center.

  2. FlyBy November 23, 2020 at 19:13

    I have to go with “Too Early to Shoot the Bastards”. I’m wiling to wait until the courts have their say and the Trump campaign has exhausted all other avenues. Furthermore, I don’t consider the elites and/or the media my betters. I wouldn’t use a slit trench if they had a hand in digging it. Wait, a couple of more weeks won’t matter. When it comes time to go kinetic, opportunities will abound.

    • Normal American November 25, 2020 at 14:21

      As you say, nobody has been sworn in yet. Lots happening in Pennsylvania today. Check out RSBN’s broadcast of the Pennsylvania legislature’s hearing that’s live right now. Highly credible witnesses including former infantry officers are testifying about irregularities and apparent fraud they personally witnessed:
      https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1331648247539003392

      As for “betters,” it’s how our ruling elites think of themselves. It’s tongue-in-cheek.

  3. Anonymous November 23, 2020 at 20:05

    5

  4. James November 23, 2020 at 20:10

    Damn Johhny,nice with the .357,feel 2″ either way still a good head shot!

    Still working with the esoteric AK-15,now hitting 16″x20″steel at 200 with open sites,going to dial in scope on paper,200 all we have on private property while keeping safe.Eating the steel like a champ,am really loving this rifle.

    That said,helps mentally that at night listening to Zeps”Physical Graffiti”thru turntable and Klipsch speakers,that said,love Zeps 3 also,sorry, couldn’t resist.

    • Johnny Paratrooper November 24, 2020 at 07:57

      Thanks man. I will admit, It is hard to shoot a magnum pistol. It took about 30 rounds to get the flinch outta my system.

      Make sure you clean your barrel well. And give it a proper break in. The AK round can be pretty damn accurate.
      I want to purchase one of those 7.62×39 AK-15 clones I see on brownell’s. But I also what to save my money and by that Sig Sauer 556R.

      I should probably just save my money though.
      Times are changing soon everyone. We are currently putting the hurting on them.

  5. Reece November 23, 2020 at 23:08

    I say really enjoy this holiday season as it may be our last to see family and friends!

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