Glimmers of Hope or Gloomy Winter?..By Conrad Black

[mystery-ak]

Glimmers of Hope
or Gloomy Winter?

The president has set a commendable example of cool-headed self-restraint since the election.

By Conrad Black
November 11, 2020

It is not the least of ironies that in the week following Election Day, President Trump has conducted himself as many of his supporters have long advised him to do. He has left most comments to subordinates, especially lawyers, and repeated without bombast or unnecessary flourishes his belief that the apparent election result is compromised. He will assert his right and fulfill his duty to do all that he can to assure that all legal votes and no illegal votes are counted.

Trump has expressed confidence that should not be disparaged or mocked that such a result will sustain him in office. His opponent’s lead in Arizona and Georgia is in each case now about 10,000 and slowly falling. It is quite possible that the president will, without recourse to extraordinary measures, win those states. He won North Carolina and Alaska on Election Day, and only the perversity of the media withheld that fact from being acknowledged. The addition of these four states would bring his electoral vote total to 259, and reduce Joe Biden’s to 279. This makes Pennsylvania with its 20 electoral votes crucial.

The U.S. Supreme Court has already required that all ballots cast in the three additional days granted for reception of mailed ballots by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania be segregated and counted separately. Pennsylvania appears to have seriously violated the requirement of the election legislation of that state detailing that scrutineers of both major parties be enabled to verify all ballots. And as the Constitution provides that all elections be directed by the legislatures of the states, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision to authorize the three-day extension seems to be ultra vires to it, illegal and subject to revocation by the High Court. Given the fragile Biden lead in that state, it must be considered vulnerable and a flip would reelect Trump as president if Arizona and Georgia were in his column also.

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[Fishrrman]

Mr. Black:
"Glimmers of Hope
or Gloomy Winter?"

Here in Connecticut, over much of the past week, we've had a splendid Indian Summer.

But of course, one realizes that the Indian Summer is only for a short while, and the reality is that the winter follows not far behind.

Thinking back, about The West in general and America in particular, we seem to have reached our "apex" back around 1991, as Soviet Communism collapsed in both Eastern Europe and Russia. At that time Western Civilization seemed triumphant.

But then... we began to slip downward.
At first, ever-so-slightly.
But "our Autumn" was beginning...

...Until September 2001, after which "the frost" forming upon the surface of our civilization was undeniable.

Since then, the future of America and The West have faced a harsh Autumn, as much of the foundations upon which our society is based crack and crumble around us.

Then Mr. Trump came along, and for a short time, he gave the country "an Indian Summer" of sorts.
But, like all Indian Summers, the time was short and has to end.

Perhaps it's not over quite yet... we won't know until mid-December.
But whether it ends this coming January, or January four years from now, the reality is still facing us.

At some point, the winter awaits, and it will not be denied.
How harsh that chill will become... is yet... unknown.

But... I doubt I'll live long enough to see a real Spring come again.

[Absalom]

Mr. Black:
Here in Connecticut, over much of the past week, we've had a splendid Indian Summer.
But of course, one realizes that the Indian Summer is only for a short while, and the reality is that the winter follows not far behind.
Thinking back, about The West in general and America in particular, we seem to have reached our "apex" back around 1991, as Soviet Communism collapsed in both Eastern Europe and Russia. At that time Western Civilization seemed triumphant. But then... we began to slip downward.
At first, ever-so-slightly. But "our Autumn" was beginning...
Until September 2001, after which "the frost" forming upon the surface of our civilization was undeniable.
Since then, the future of America and The West have faced a harsh Autumn, as much of the foundations upon which our society are based crack and crumble around us.
Then Mr. Trump came along, and for a short time, he gave the country "an Indian Summer" of sorts.
But, like all Indian Summers, the time was short and has to end.
Perhaps it's not over quite yet... we won't know until mid-December.
But whether it ends this coming January, or January four years from now, the reality is still facing us.
At some point, the winter awaits, and it will not be denied. How harsh that chill will become... is yet... unknown. But... I doubt I'll live long enough to see a real Spring come again.

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Man is mortal and fallible; even the wisest among us.
Greece and Rome birthed Western Civilization, yet both fell.
We, who are a tad past 200 years, permit our political assholery to
claim "we are the greatest!!"; an embarrassingly hysterical assertion.