On the eve of the election.
Though the election has been going on for weeks now, with early voting and absentee ballots.
Of the two candidates, I really, roooly don't like Kamala Harris.
Let's recall that until five minutes ago, noone liked Kamala. Not Democrats. Not Independents. And certainly not Republicans.
The Democrats only came to "like" her after she was installed in coup against the sitting president, orchestrated by Obama, Pelosi, Schumer and Kamala herself. Then they decided to "like" her, instantly, because the Party told them to. Via the compliant media, which carried out the propaganda operation, which continues to this day.
The rest of us meanwhile, we non-Dem, continue to find her a risible candidate.
She's a liar. This is not the worst of the failings, but it's sure clear and up there, obvious and clear. She's lied about every hoax nonsense the Left has pushed since 2016. Russia collusion, Trump saying Nazis are "fine people' (he didn't), January 6 was an insurrection (it wasn't), Joe is "sharp as a tack" (he isn't). And do on.
She's bad on the policy issues. Summed up as: Crime, Border control, Inflation and the Economy. On all of which the electorate is clear. They prefer Trump to Kamala, based on how he did in his first term, vs how she and Joe did in their first term. This is pretty much acknowledged across the parties. The polls show that 79% of Americans think it's "on the wrong track". And large majorities say the trust Trump more on those four issues.
But the main concerns are these two:
1. Free Speech: she and her running mate are not believers in the First Amendment. If they get back in power, they will go after free speech more than they have already done. Not just to clamp down on free speech, via all sorts of "misinformation and disinformation" laws, but also by weaponising the FBI and CIA to go after social media, as they did before Musk opened up the Twitter Files.
Which of course brings to mind the way that the FBI and the DOJ have been weaponised to go after Trump and his supporters. This is undeniable and has been acknowledged even by Dem supporters, like the CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria.
2. The One-Party state: The Biden admin are in the process -- right in front of our eyes -- of stacking illegal immigrants into swing states, giving them all sorts of freebies and giving them fast track to citizenship so they can vote Democrat. They don't even need to be citizens, though, as there's no voter ID law. The figures for numbers shipped in to swing states is on the government website, DHS.gov, so it's no secret. In some states the numbers imported have increased 700%.
As Elon Musk points out this makes the whole of America like California, a one-Party state. I've seen with mine own eyes how California has gone downhill under one party rule of the Democrats. Dirt, filth, crime and inefficiency aside, it's deeply corrupt and the corruption can't be revealed because of the one-party control.
So: “Vote like your life depends on it”.
I find all this deeply worrying. I lived in a one-party state in the 1970s in China. It's not nice.
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All of the above is not even to mention that Kamala has said she wants to stack the Supreme Court, to do away with the filibuster, to make Puerto Rico a state (which would give two more Dem Senators).
Or to consider her views on Israel, on which I'm a die-hard Zionist, strong Israel supporter. Trump showed himself a much stronger ally of Israel than Kamala has. As for Ukraine, she wants to keep the war going, to placate the neo-cons, amongst them, Liz Cheney, which Trump wants to "stop the killing".
So, I'm very much hoping for a Trump win, a landslide if possible -- "too big to rig" -- tomorrow. Though somehow I doubt it will be clean and I doubt that the Dems will accept a Trump win without a severe allergic reaction. Recall that to this day Hillary Clinton still calls Donald Trump's first term election win "illegitimate". So much for "election denial" being something of the Right.
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Voting system:
This business of election denial brings to mind the fact that America now has a mish-mash of 50 different systems that needs to be reformed. The EU holds elections, with paper ballots, and things are decided in one day. The reform needed is simple. Or simple to state, at least. Not so simple to get agreement. Still, here it is:
- Have the voting on One Day only. Election Day. No early voting.
- Valid photo ID required.
- Election Day is a holiday.
- Paper voting, no voting machines.
- Reduce the absentee vote to those who are overseas. and require a verifiable ID
