Should Elections be a fair fight?

Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential race. By no means was is above board, and it certainly wasn’t a fair fight. The American Left waged a 4-year war on Republicans through media, censorship, faulty allegations of collusion, and more that eventually created such hatred of the American Right that entire states cheated to deny Donald Trump another 4 years. Whether you believe these States cheated or not, they did. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin all illegally changed their election laws, which did in fact change the outcome of the race. The Supreme Court denied hearing a case that might have applied the 14^th Amendment to their total disregard for election law, and in so doing essentially made it entirely legal for states of the union to violate their own election laws whenever they feel like it. But should elections be fair? Is “fairness” just something Americans have come to expect that need not actually be?

As always, my biases: I am a registered Libertarian. I lean conservative on a lot of things, with the notable exceptions of drugs, alcohol, and borders, but mostly believe in personal sovereignty and liberty. I believe that democracy is mob rule, and that the Constitution lays out a clear path to prosperity that we’ve steadily refused to use. I don’t like Donald Trump, but I don’t like Joe Biden even more.

Elections are not something to be taken lightly. Today’s United States government wields incredible power, and thanks to lackadaisical courts, will continue to do so in higher and higher amounts going forward. Whomever we elect wields that power on our behalf. We should rightfully expect that they do so with the idea that the further they are from us, the less they should decide for us. Obamacare is garbage not because the ideas are bad, but because they applied them to everyone. While our Constitution is a living document that can grow and change, it was designed to prevent the government from ever doing something like that; that is, until we changed it. So how do we decide that the people who make bad decisions like Obamacare are held accountable? Through elections. If, however, the elections aren’t fair, how can we be sure that the people who are responsible for bad governance are held accountable? Our basic right to redress our government primarily comes from voting out the bad public servants, or conversely by voting for good ones. When an election isn’t fair, it’s not just that someone who shouldn’t be in office now is, it’s that we lost our right to equally choose who the right person is. It should upset everyone, regardless of outcome, if an election is not above board. We are all subject to the lowest common denominator, which in this case is certainly Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The hardest part of all of this isn’t the outcome. Both Trump and Biden are terrible leaders. The hardest part is that no one with the power to fix this blatant disregard for the sacred institution of our democracy will actually use that power to fix it. We cannot change the outcome of this election, but we should have been able to count on fixing the problems that plagued this one. Some may say that unearthing the truth would shake the foundations of our democracy, because after all, the peaceful transition of power depends entirely upon the consent of those who were defeated accepting the results. The biggest portion of that acceptance comes from the belief that the election was held fairly, and that their voices were heard. It’s probably also helpful if you don’t call thelosers “a bunch of f---ers,”, or “deplorable,” or “irredeemable”, but I digress. If we don’t get to the bottom of the nonsense that occurred during election night, if we don’t hold the state election officials accountable for violating their own laws, and if we don’t find out if the electronic voting was done correctly and can be audited and proved to be correct, then we don’t have losers who are willing to concede, and rightfully so. It wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t part of the public record in Texas v. Pennsylvania, or if there had actually been a leaky pipe at State Farm Arena, but we do have these things, and they must be answered for. Not to change the outcome of the election—what’s done is done—but to prove to the American people that doing what’s right is still important, and that hanging together is worth it.