Nice Election You Have There… Would Be a Shame if Something Happened to It

There are two Americas. I keep saying it because it’s true. What started as ruminations on the audacity of the elites back in June has turned into a series of posts on the divergence and separation of the American polity. What’s been surprising, however, isn’t so much that there’s a separation occurring—but rather that it already occurred, that it did so quite some time ago, and that it’s only now becoming impossible to ignore. If the old American consensus had held—that you keep to yourself your own backwards opinions and I’ll keep to myself my own—then this would never have happened; but as we know, such a consensus is impossible in a society that embraces the sexual revolution.

We’re not on about that today, however. Today, we’re on about what the future looks like for the American Empire. We’re on about a president that is contesting an election. We’re on about a candidate prematurely accusing the incumbent of refusing to relinquish power. We’re on about extremely questionable and in cases outright fraudulent ballot-counting procedures in key battleground states.

A Fraudulent Narrative

If you were on the right, you didn’t have to call that there’d be voter fraud this season. It was such a foregone conclusion that even the President said it would happen. The opposition, of course, would call this a way of planting the seeds of contesting the election when he lost, as if he was a wildly unpopular president that needed to sew distension in order to unite his base. The reality, of course, is that Trump is an absurdly popular president, all things considered, and the liberal-America that denies this tend to all congregate in spheres that openly ostracize those that merely drop a favorable word about the guy.

We know this because Trump’s approval ratings aren’t that far removed from Obama’s for the same term. His approval/disapproval has a greater gap, but that’s explained by two things: polling methods and Trump’s polarizing personality. Despite what the mainstream news tries to tell us, there is the presence of a massive grassroots effort on Trump’s side that the Democrats can’t compete with this time around. Biden’s support, as evidenced by his rallies and the pathetic attempt to drag Obama out to campaign for him, is entirely astroturfed and inflicted from the top down.

So when the angle is that Trump’s opinions on voter fraud were a calculated move to delegitimize election results like some third world dictator, we have to remember what’s really being said here. Fascist or third world dictators don’t have to delegitimize election results because they always come out in their favor anyway. Trump, on the other hand, is just echoing what’s on the mind of any average, even slightly-engaged conservative-leaning citizen. Voter fraud, from busing in out-of-staters to getting the absentee ballots of the not-so-recently deceased, is something every conservative circle knows happens in every single election. And it’s not new—just look up how Chicago worked to get JFK into the White House in 1960. The illegitimacy of the process is, ironically, a feature of a liberal democracy rather than a bug, but that’s an argument for another time.

Accusing the opposition of what you’re already doing is, of course, a typical leftist play, and there’s merit to that interpretation here. But there’s more to it than that. Why would they have to form this narrative in the first place, if the citizens of right-America won’t believe it anyway? The answer is because the citizens of liberal-America do believe it; the facade of liberalism, despite its cracks and clear holes that reveal the machinery behind it, is still a complete if flawed whole. They do believe that the democratic process, as advertised and billed, works. Some of them, if they believe in voter fraud at all, consider it such an inconsequential issue that it’s in the noise. The hundreds of thousands of ballots that show up at polling centers in Michigan, at 3am, unloaded out of unmarked cars and delivered by plain-clothed operatives, of course, is all fake news. Even though it happens, and it’s recognized as happening, there’s no possible way it’s indicative of fraud. It just means they found more ballots stashed away in some undisclosed location. That it’s only happening in battleground states is completely irrelevant to the conversation.

The narrative here does not exist to keep right-America in line, it’s just there to bully them by humiliation. It’s a constant stream of agitprop thrown in right’s face, the equivalent of a punk trying to start a fight with a parolee by taunting him: “do something!” But the narrative serves a second purpose, and that’s to galvanize its own audiences, to maintain a confirmation bias and consensus, and to self-validate the existence of the liberal-American ideology. It’s as if the media wing of the opposition is telling right-America, “You idiots won’t believe this anyway, but ours will, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Contested Elections

The media will tell us Joe Biden won the election. Don’t believe them. There will be recounts. Voter fraud will be investigated, and probably even dragged out into the open—even more than to the extent it already has. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and probably even Arizona and Nevada will all be contested. The courts will get involved. Procedurally, we’ll be following the road to the White House laid in 2000 by the Bush/Gore disputes, except this time there will be some other buzzword instead of “hanging chads”. The process is going to take us through the end of the year, assuming the Republican legislatures of some of these states don’t simply choose their own electors and swing the College back in Trump’s favor. That’s still an option, but it’ll take balls on the part of elected officials that I’m too pessimistic to believe they have.

Don’t be fooled: this isn’t the 2000 election all over again. Trump and Biden are not Bush and Gore. This is a race to unseat an incumbent who, narratively speaking, should never have been elected in the first place. If there was ever any doubt as to how far off the playbook 2016 got, the clearest evidence is what’s going on right now. This isn’t typical political theater for the American experiment. And to his credit, Gore also was not, at least by degree, the same re-animated puppet of a politician that Joe Biden’s demeanor suggests. Trump isn’t taking on Joe Biden, and most of us know this; he’s taking on the entire Democratic apparatus and the globalist cabal that’s behind him. Some of the GOP is on board with that, even if there are questionable motives or uneasy alliances. That’s how it is. But this political conflict is between one unorthodox machine versus a much larger, better financed, but apparently more obtuse one. The same most definitely cannot be said about 2000.

They didn’t necessarily want the disorder, originally, but after the votes started coming in on November 3^rd, they knew it was coming anyway. So they banked on it. The more the media can tell a narrative that, right now, is against what the facts are on the ground, the better. Their next best option, since stealth wasn’t one, is to fill the field with so many signals that nobody can discern what exactly is going on anymore. The only reason it’s appropriate for them to do is because so far, for now at least, they still control most of the means by which information is disseminated.

They’re betting that they can come out on top with enough gaslighting and censorship, and Trump, to their credit, did not fight them enough on this. The trust-busting litigation against Big Tech is still only in the early stages of the pipeline. Results, if any even come from it, won’t be seen for years. This election will be called before the end of January. Barring some openly authoritarian hijinks that Trump, quite simply, is not the kind of guy to pull, there’s a good reason to bet on the same side as the media for this.

On the other hand, the right has maintained a presence in spite of the censorship and deplatforming. It’s most certainly going to get worse, of course, there’s no doubt about that, and there’s still no feasible way to build alternative online networks that don’t rely on some major infrastructural component from Big Tech to make work. On top of this, we should all remember what happened to that old leader of the Proud Boys after McInnis stepped down; the banks, should they choose to intervene, can and will unperson you from the system.

But this sort of playing only happens to people who get big enough, and the left is presently ensuring that there are so many disenfranchised, unheard, and angry Americans that the right isn’t going to simply run out of them. And the ones who do get unpersoned? Well, now they’re radicalized, which isn’t necessarily good for the right, but not good for the left, either.

Backing Trump out of a civic loyalty is presently the best thing a right-American can do. We could pretend like a second Trump term will unfold like the first one, and that he’ll continue to do nothing to strengthen the populist-conservative wing he effectively built within the GOP, and that he’ll do nothing about tech censorship. But this election has already proven that Trump’s second term will never be allowed to function like his first one. The first time was openly called illegitimate by the opposition, but there was a de facto understanding at the top that the impeachment and Russian allegations were all political theater done in the interests of obstruction. His regime was accepted, but it was fought. That won’t happen this time. Even when Trump’s team wins the court battles and recounts, the media has already ensured that liberal-America will openly condemn the administration as illegitimate. How the political apparatus takes this, especially after the opposition loses power in the House, we don’t know yet. The citizens of liberal-America, however, will be incensed.

We’re rapidly approaching the foggy veil beyond which predictions cease being comprehensible. If you wanted to sound full of yourself, you could call it the neoliberal eschaton. For my part, I’m satisfied to view it as a particular zero hour that reorients American politics in a way we had presumed 2016’s election night did. How naive! This is going to make 2016 look like business as usual, when in reality it was anything but.

Understanding the Present War

There isn’t going to be a civil war. At least, not the sort that has militias storming the White House or the Star Spangled Banner sung by partisans wielding 3D-printed automatics. The fantasies of urban combat in the streets of Baltimore or Philadelphia might have some merit as the country further destabilizes, but it isn’t going to become something that people are willing to call a war. If you look at the violent crime rates in those places, you could almost argue that it’s been happening for the last thirty years, though it’s not exactly ideological. But the riots this summer, and the media’s coverage of them, already showed us a future that liberal-America is willing to live with. The self-styled antifa revolutionaries tend to skedaddle the moment they reach unanticipated resistance.

The truth is, the country is already at war. It’s an informational war, the likes of which hasn’t been seen before. Modernites go to war for one of two reasons: either to defend what they already have, or in order to get something that they want. If the elites and the denizens of liberal-America can try to get what they want without firing a shot, and if we can defend ourselves appropriately, then all the better. So far this engagement has played out predominately through the use of social conditioning, propaganda, and humiliation tactics, and while some may find this an unsatisfying method of combat, I, for one, would prefer it stay this way. Subjecting my family to the horrors of a chaotic, highly partisan and internecine conflict in this country is not on the list of preferred eventualities. And that’s to say nothing of the plethora of simulations that shed some light on what the civil war would look like if it went hot. It’d be another world war, and following the pattern established by the last one, there’d be no good guy. I don’t think the elites even want that.

Then again, in twenty years, after the Sino-Hebraic peace accords are finalized and the United States is left a smoldering waste still polyped with unexploded Guangzhou neutron bombs, someone can dig up this forecast and have a good laugh. If I’m alive, I’ll own up to it. I don’t mind being wrong, but on this count I’d rather not be.

If you’re looking for a blackpill, read someone else’s blog. If you’re looking for a white one, it’s right here: Trump really is a threat to the system. He is going to win. What happens afterward isn’t within our sight to understand, yet. Remember that politics aren’t the ends here; politics are only ever means. Remember why we supported the Bad Orange Man in the first place, even in 2020, after four years of what could only be called a somewhat pathetic display. We know he’s got what it takes to fight these people. Nobody else in the government, at least in the public’s eye, has the backbone to stand up and call them out, but there are plenty who will stand behind Trump when he does it. That’s good enough.