What's the worst that could happen? A turning point for America
This election isn't simply a contest between Trump and Harris-Biden. Nor is it simply a contest between the Democrat and Republican parties. It's deeper than that. This election is a turning point for America. We will decide whether we will continue as a Constitutional Republic or move dramatically toward socialism.
If Trump wins, he will continue to nominate Constitutional conservatives to the Supreme Court. He will continue to make America great again and improve economic conditions for working Americans. With a Democrat win, it will be increasingly obvious that Americans are subservient to the state, not the converse.
Ideally, with a Democrat win, we would return to the Kennedy years - to the golden age of Camelot. But we don't live in an ideal world. The Democrat party is no longer your parents' Democratic party. It has been co-opted by radicals with an overtly socialist agenda.
What's the worst that could happen?
James Kirkpatrick presents several possibilities in the September 15, 2020 VDare article, Dems Planning To Enslave White America If Trump Loses. I hadn't expected to see a heading like that for another 20 years when White Americans become a minority in the country that their ancestors founded. But with the escalation of racial conflict and divisive identity politics, things have changed over the course of months.
Here are possibilities as listed in the article:
- Eliminate the Electoral College [It’s time to abolish the Electoral College, by Darrell West, Brookings Institute, October 15, 2019]
- Make Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. states [that will give them four Democrat senators in perpetuity.] —plus possibly the Virgin Islands—thus allowing coastal elites to rule Middle America like a conquered territory [Journalist: Dems should push for Puerto Rico, DC statehood after 2020, The Hill, July 30, 2018]
- Auto-registering Americans to vote, making Election Day a holiday and thus making it easier for uninformed people to vote
- Eliminate the Senate filibuster [The Senate Filibuster Is Another Monument to White Supremacy| Tear it down, by David Litt, Atlantic, June 27, 2020]
- Pack the Supreme Court [Democrats’'hunger to break the old political system grows ahead of 2020 election, by Sahil Kapur, NBC News, August 16, 2020]
- Increase legal immigration
- Increase the refugee inflow now virtually cut off under Trump
- Enact Amnesty, providing the Democrats with tens of millions of new voters, especially as amnestied illegals begin sponsoring their relatives under our absurd (and unreformed by Trump) "family reunification" laws
- Another proposal: an "anti-racist amendment" to the Constitution that would allow the government punish any racial inequality, which would automatically be evidence of "racist policy." Given that we never have equal outcomes in multiracial societies, this would mean virtually every social interaction would become a potential federal case.
I would add: virtual abolishment of the Second Amendment. The fact that millions of Americans own firearms will not matter.
Any or all of these possibilities could occur, alone or more likely in combination. For example, a Democrat-controlled Senate could abolish the filibuster, then pack the Supreme Court with liberal, non-Constitutionalist justices - which ironically would be allowed under the Constitution.
Kirkpatrick continues:
Would conservatives fight back against a Democratic regime’s abuses of power? That’s uncertain. Even something as controlled and co-opted as the Tea Party would be difficult.
Besides, Conservatism Inc. would be delighted to be rid of Trump and go back to wringing its hands about the budget deficit. But there are deeper issues at stake than the deficit....
"Optimism is cowardice," said Oswald Spengler. The Trump Administration’s real value was not in what it did or didn’t do, but in removing illusions. We now see the MSM, the Deep State, and Big Tech for what they are.
A Trump victory in 2020 would at least buy time. But the truth is that whoever wins, patriots’ actions need to be the same. They have to be building institutions that are outside Conservatism Inc. Rather than hoping for a savior from above, we need to building power from below...
Ben Stein brought up another important concern in his September 18, 2020 American Spectator article, Democrats Loathe Our Constitution:
The Democrats no longer respect the Constitution. I can tell this because the Founders said that only a self-restrained, God-fearing people could possibly live under this Constitution. It assumed enough self-discipline among its citizens that they would be self-governing, not ruled by mob or monarch, but ruled with regard for the higher opinion of mankind and of each other to manage an immense continent without being a police state...
The "crushing sense of dread" that my wife and I have felt all day is that the Biden/Harris/Pelosi/Schiff/Black Lives Matter administration will tolerate, even applaud, such violence in the streets and neighborhoods of America that they will say they have to create a police state to run the country. Moreover, the violence will be so terrifying, and the leaders/instigators of the violence will be so terrifying that the Biden/Harris/BLM "team" will appoint the BLM leaders and their most insane white adherents to police America...
This is how Bolshevism came to Russia and how National Socialism came to Germany. And now it’s headed to us....
Rush Limbaugh has expressed similar concerns: If Trojan Horse Biden Wins, Marxists Will Rule America Unopposed, September 16, 2020. The entire article is worth reading. Here are a few excerpts:
I think if the Democrats win this election, you can say good-bye to an active and viable two-party system in this country...
I think if the Democrats win, then it’s hello one-party rule, and it is one-party rule of a bunch of Marxists and Leninists and uber-left wing radicals who are not interested in a two-party system. They don’t believe in opposition. There is no legitimate opposition....
I really think this is the future if we lose. I don’t think there’s any question about it. What they’re gonna do, for example, is pack the Supreme Court. They will create states out of Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. That will give them four Democrat senators in perpetuity. We will never win the Senate back. Take a look at California, take a look at New York, and that’s what they want to become of the rest of the country. And that’s what’s at stake in this election....
The American people are being defrauded. They’re being lied to daily over the kind of government the Democrats are gonna have, over the kind of administration the Biden administration will be. This is what Danielle Pletka intuitively understands. It isn’t your father’s Democrat Party anymore....
Danielle Pletka writes: I never considered voting for Trump in 2016. I may be forced to vote for him this year, Washington Post, September 14, 2020:
In 2016, I never considered voting for Donald Trump. The Johnny-come-lately Republican and his nasty schoolyard jibes seemed to me the worst degradation of American politics. But in 2020, I may be forced to vote for the man....
Hear me out... I fear Trump’s erratic, personality-driven decision-making... But I fear the leftward lurch of the Democratic Party even more.
What is there to be afraid of? I fear that former vice president Joe Biden would be a figurehead president, incapable of focus or leadership, who would run a teleprompter presidency with the words drafted by his party’s hard-left ideologues. I fear that a Congress with Democrats controlling both houses — almost certainly ensured by a Biden victory in November — would begin an assault on the institutions of government that preserve the nation’s small “d” democracy.
That could include the abolition of the filibuster, creating an executive-legislative monolith of unlimited political power; an increase in the number of Supreme Court seats to ensure a liberal supermajority; passage of devastating economic measures such as the Green New Deal; nationalized health care; the dismantling of U.S. borders and the introduction of socialist-inspired measures that will wreck an economy still recovering from the pandemic shutdown.
Americans have much to seriously consider before casting their votes this November.
The immense stakes in this election
Doug Casey on What Happens After The Election, Doug Casey, International Man, October 9, 2020.
Read the book: The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return, by Michael Anton, 2020.