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The Opium of the People

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The House of Representatives passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act that expands proof-of-citizenship requirements to vote in federal elections and impose voter roll purge requirements on states. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote in a policy brief on the SAVE Act: “Noncitizen voting is a threat to election integrity. Congress must pass the SAVE Act to close the loopholes that have allowed noncitizen voting, to enhance election security, to reduce the risk of foreign election interference, and to restore Americans’ confidence in U.S. elections.” Seems pretty logical and reasonable, but the left is apoplectic.

 

As expected, the Democrats in unison decried the bill as “racist” and “xenophobic”. Rep. Jennifer McClellan said, “this is the 2024 version of the Jim Crow poll tax and we should vote against it.”  Rep. Summer Lee added, “they don’t want to hear black voices, brown voices, LGBTQIA voices, young voices. Our fundamental access to our democracy is being politicized, and this xenophobic attack that we’re debating today will make it harder for Americans to vote.” Isn’t calling this legislation “xenophobic” an admission that it will actually prevent foreign citizens from voting in our elections? But I am still not sure how asking for ID to vote is racist considering that almost everything that we do – fly on a plane, drive a car, rent a car, buy a car, buy a house, get a home loan, rent a hotel room, cash a check, invest money, and many more – requires proof of identification. And there is still not one racial discrimination lawsuit against any of those industries which require proof of ID.

 

The White House released a statement coming out against the SAVE Act claiming that it is not needed because "it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in Federal elections — it is a Federal crime punishable by prison and fines… Additionally, making a false claim of citizenship or unlawfully voting in an election is punishable by removal from the United States and a permanent bar to admission." And Joe Biden has already stated that he will veto the legislation if it comes across his desk.

 

It is already illegal to carry a firearm onto an airplane and doing so carries a punishment of up to 10 years in prison but that doesn’t mean we don’t need the TSA. Actually, because of the seriousness of the offense, we need the TSA to ensure that no one does carry a gun onto a plane. If we value democracy, as the left loves to preach, and non-citizens voting is a serious threat to our democracy, then we need a mechanism in place to prevent non-citizens from voting. If there is no mechanism to catch a non-citizen voting illegally, then the punishments for voting illegally mean absolutely nothing. We saw this with the defund the police movement. If there is fewer police officers to catch criminals, there will be more crime.  

 

If merely having laws on the books prevent people from committing a crime, then there would be no need for law enforcement. There are already laws against non-citizens entering our country illegally and 10 million have done so under Biden’s watch. So, if our left leaning federal government is not going to enforce our laws and prevent non-citizens from entering our country illegally, then there is a good chance that our left leaning state governments are not going to enforce our laws and prevent non-citizens from entering voting booths to vote illegally That is precisely why the Biden administration allowed 10 million illegals into our country, so they would vote for him and the other Democrats in 2024. Joe Biden’s open borders does not only mean a dramatic increase in drug overdoses, rapes and murders, it also means millions of new votes for Biden and the Democrats, and that is why he did it.

 

The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project conducted a survey and found that 10% of illegal aliens and non-citizens stated that they are registered to vote in the upcoming election. And those are just the ones who admitted their intent to commit voter fraud.  That number is mostly twice that. And considering that there is an estimate of at least 30 million illegals in the country already, we are looking at approximately 6 million non-citizens voting, and the overwhelming majority would end up voting for Biden and the Democrats. That’s the point.

 

A YouGov poll published in July 2022 found that 65 percent of American citizens support requiring proof of citizenship to vote in elections, and fewer than 25 percent of Americans oppose this common and necessary requirement. So, Joe Biden and the other Democrats standing up against the SAVE Act are thwarting the will of the people.

 

But the Democrats do not believe in democracy. They rigged the 2016 primary for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders and then they rigged the 2020 primary for Joe Biden against Bernie Sanders. In 2016, former Democrat congresswoman Donna Brazile working for CNN gave Hillary Clinton the questions ahead of her debate with Sanders, and then they forced the super-delegates to pledge their support for Hillary giving Sanders no path to victory. Now after telling us, that their 2024 primary that Joe Biden won was completely fair and legal, the powerful players and elites on the left, billionaire Mark Cuban, and Hollywood actors Michael Douglas, George Clooney and Mia Farrow are leading a charge to replace Biden on the ticket.

 

Joe Biden won 3,896 of the 3,939 Democrat delegates in the 2024 primaries, which is 99% of the delegates, and he is not going to be the nominee? These were legitimate elections, right? Actual American citizens went to the polls, cast legitimate ballots and overwhelmingly voted for Joe Biden. Now these elites in the Democrat party are trying to remove him from the ticket against the will of the 15 million Democrat voters who voted for him. They want to replace the duly elected Democrat nominee with a handpicked candidate who they believe has a better chance at beating Trump. Does this sound like democracy?

 

I’m confused, weren’t the January 6th defendants accused of trying to prevent Joe Biden, the duly elected President, from taking office? Aren’t the people who are trying to replace Joe Biden trying to prevent the duly elected Presidential nominee from running for office? Biden won 48 of the 48 states that held primaries, and they want to prevent him from running. What ever happened to the will of the people? It is not the will of Mark Cuban or the will of George Clooney that we should follow; it should be the will of the people, the will of the voters.

 

But it was never about the will of the people because these same Democrat elites only gave the people one choice to vote for on the ballot in this year’s Democrat primary. They blocked potential challengers like Robert Kennedy Jr and Cornel West from being on the ballot because they knew that if RFK Jr and Cornel West actually won, they would not be as easily controlled as Biden is. And these same people continually tell us that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. If they had actually run a legitimate primary, Joe Biden’s mental deficiencies would have been exposed, and they would not be scrambling to replace him in the last minute.

 

Make no mistake, this is what the Democrat party has become all about. They are not the party of democracy; they are not the party of the people; they have become the party of the elites and the oligarchs. The elites and the oligarchs will claim that they know what the will of the people is better than the people themselves, just as the politicians they thrust on us claim to know how to spend our money better than we do and how to make better decisions in our lives than we do. But they don’t because if they did, our country would not be in the mess that it is in.

 

In their minds, how can we, the average American citizen, actually know what is best for ourselves and our country? Because if we were smart enough to know that, then we wouldn’t be average American citizens, we would be part of the elite, just like them. We wouldn’t live our anonymous lives of quiet desperation; we would be rich and famous living in our four mansions surrounded by paparazzi. So, the elites believe that the elites should determine who our leaders are, not the American citizens but they can only do so under the guise of a “democracy of the people”.

 

The democracy that they preach about is an illusion. Their democracy is the “opium of the people”. The idea that we are living in a democracy, the belief that we, the American people, actually have control over how our government functions and how our tax dollars are spent, is what makes our miserable lives of desperation which was caused by the disfunctions of our government and the misspending of our tax dollars that the elites foisted upon us, palatable. Every time the elite on the left rams the concept of democracy down our throats, it is their way of anesthetizing us to the pain that their policies are inflicting upon us. How many people voted for open borders, 100,000 drug overdoses, more rapes, more murders, two trillion-dollar deficits, unaffordable gas prices and groceries, endless wars, crime-ridden cities, homelessness on every street corner, open air drug use? No one. But the elites will tell us that we voted for it, so shut up and take it.

 

But our so-called democratic system is not, ‘one person, one vote’. That is the illusion. George Clooney, Michael Douglas, Mia Farrow, Mark Cuban, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates have much more power to determine who the next President is, then you and I do. Their vote counts much more than ours does because they have influence over the levers of power. They determine policy and their wealth makes them immune to the devastating effects of their policies that the average American must overcome every day.

 

The elites picked our President in 2020. Billionaire tech oligarchs, the Hollywood celebrities, the elite media, academia, all hand selected Joe Biden for us, not the actual voters. They didn’t just put their thumbs on the scale, they put the entire bodies on the scale. How much better would our lives be if the 2020 election was actually fair and our President was not a dementia patient hand-picked by the American elites who they can control? The elites do not know what’s best for the American people; they have absolutely no clue and they do not care; they know what is best for themselves and they know how to exploit their positions of power to ensure their own selfish interests. And that is why every day, life in America becomes exceedingly harder for the average American and exceedingly easier for the elites.

 

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.

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Sam Dehne
Sam Dehne
15. Juli 2024

JG,

It's not just rigging of the elections at the physical ballot boxes/computer screens.

It REALLY is the vote stealing that they and their Chinese cronies' Dominion-Sequoia

["made in China"] Brand vote-stealing computers get away with down in the

bowels of their China computers. Down deep where NOBODY (else) knows how to get to!!!!

Here's the 2010 Nevada Congress-Election(click) where they used the favorite candidate

as their guinea pig to prove the power of their treachery to America and the world.

https://www.renocitizen.com/10percent.htm

Sam DNA Dehne


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Judd Garrett is a former NFL player, coach and executive. He is a frequent contributer to the website Real Clear Politics, and has recently published his first novel, No Wind

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