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Republicans Can’t Beat Democrats’ Election-Industrial Complex By Adopting Its Strategies

BY: JOSEPH ARLINGHAUS AND WILLIAM DOYLE, PH.D.
MARCH 16, 2023


The sudden rise of well-funded election activist nonprofits represents a paradigm shift away from persuading and motivating voters, and toward manipulating the election process to benefit Democrats.

Over the last several months, a growing number of Republicans, including Donald Trump himself, seem to be having a change of heart about universal mail-in voting and ballot harvesting.

While few Republicans are ready to completely abandon policies that support election integrity and transparency, more and more seem willing to follow the old adage “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,” and suggest that Republicans become significantly more reliant on universal mail-in voting and ballot harvesting to win elections. There is no worse idea in politics today.

Conservatives do not have the institutional or financial support to match Democrats in election activism and ballot harvesting, nor are they likely to be able to any time in the near future. The advantages Democrats have accrued over the last 20 years in election manipulation and “lawfare” are nearly insurmountable.

But this is not necessarily a portent of gloom and doom. The growing number of ultra-left Democratic candidates are deeply unpopular and would be unelectable outside deep-blue areas under the election norms that prevailed prior to the Covid-19 lockdowns and the 2020 presidential election.

Democrats’ performance in 2020 and 2022 would almost certainly have been far worse under conditions that involved persuading voters to go to the polls on Election Day, rather than relying on a complex web of wealthy nonprofits and armies of election activists to churn out mountains of mail-in ballots, submitted by indifferent voters, during greatly extended early voting periods.

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https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/16/republicans-cant-beat-democrats-election-industrial-complex-by-adopting-its-strategies/
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He's not offering much in the way of solutions here.
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It takes a two-pronged approach - first, argue to make things like mail-in voting and ballot harvesting illegal, but second, until such time, one has to use the means and tools that are available to accomplish one's ends.

If the Dems engage in legal ballot harvesting, then so too should the GOP until and unless the practice is made illegal.

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It takes a two-pronged approach - first, argue to make things like mail-in voting and ballot harvesting illegal, but second, until such time, one has to use the means and tools that are available to accomplish one's ends.

If the Dems engage in legal ballot harvesting, then so too should the GOP until and unless the practice is made illegal.

Exactly.  We may not be match the Democrats use of those tactics, but using them ourselves can help mitigate some of their advantage.

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Exactly.  We may not be match the Democrats use of those tactics, but using them ourselves can help mitigate some of their advantage.

And also, in a perverse way, increase support for outlawing them because if the GOP gets good at using them, Democrats will start crying about that and that, in turn, will help to build support for getting rid of them.

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Understand the Rats create an apparatus for fraud, but that structure has bottlenecks and pinch points that can be exploited, but it takes activists, the Party, and GOP controlled state govt working together to overcome it.

It really starts with registration and the voter lists. Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch has done yeoman's work forcing states to clean up their voter rolls. After that, there are quite a number of things that can be done to keep fraud out of the database.

Mail-in votes can be easily handled. Last ones are sent out 10 days before the election, they must be back 3 days before the election. They are all counted Election Day. They should be treated with the strictest chain-of-custody rules.

What happened in AZ on voting day should never have happened, but did because of lax procedures and oversight. This is where the GOP needs to fork the cash to have an army of lawyers and well trained people from the party apparatus.
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While few Republicans are ready to completely abandon policies that support election integrity and transparency, more and more seem willing to follow the old adage “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,” and suggest that Republicans become significantly more reliant on universal mail-in voting and ballot harvesting to win elections. There is no worse idea in politics today.

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MOST Senators and Congresscritters are smarter than that. The ones willing to switch over to holding that position are looking for and guaranteed the Dims won't make a serious effort to remove them from office,plus getting a sweet deposit in their offshore accounts.

We are already close to being a "One Party Nation" as things are,and that would "seal the deal".

Assuming  of course that it isn't already  too late and we are already a One Party Nation.

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Vulcan rumbles:
"He's not offering much in the way of solutions here"

Perhaps there really aren't many, so long as The Heartland remains unwilling to face the reality that the ballot box isn't going to work for them any longer...

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Vulcan rumbles:
"He's not offering much in the way of solutions here"

Perhaps there really aren't many, so long as The Heartland remains unwilling to face the reality that the ballot box isn't going to work for them any longer...

@Fishrrman

I honestly think the majority of the original "Heartland" people are solidly behind traditional America. The problem lies with all the illegal aliens the left imported into the country,gave them montly cash that is more money than many of them pulled in all year back where they came from,free electricity,free food,free medical care,etc,etc,etc.

Hell,if I were one of them,I would vote Dim,too.

And as we all know,numbers is what makes and wins elections.

Or would until I could speak good English and get a job on my own,that is. I suspect many of the new immigrants we have here now  would do the same if they were capable of speaking and understanding English on a level that would allow them to compete.

Unfortunately most don't have that ability,so signing up for life of being parasites is their only  real option.

This is at the root of the real problem. The left has allowed so many  illegal aliens into  the country and then put them on the gooberment paycheck each month for doing nothing but breathing that they probably outnumber the "born in America" Americans in many areas they are being settled.
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