The Nice Vote

I hate to keep harping on fraudulent elections, but before I get to the main point of this post I have one final thought on the election which I present in the first paragraph below.  The rest of this blog addresses what I refer to as the “nice vote.”

Elections and Integrity

I know that even if fraud is officially found it is unlikely at this point that it will change the outcome – in large part because once illegal votes have been cast it becomes next to impossible to determine which those votes were and hence impossible to remove them – but I am appalled that so many Americans seem not to care if there even was any fraud.  Even one illegal vote dilutes the strength of every legal vote.  If there are huge amounts of illegal votes as it appears there were in this election, then the essential right to vote of all Americans has been tampered with.  This is not a political issue but an American issue that goes to the very core of our democracy.  Every American, regardless of their political leanings, should demand a full investigation and demand safeguards so that from this point forward we can all trust in the fairness and honesty of our elections.  Many people don’t want the acrimony that may bring, but sometimes democracy is not “nice” which brings me to the main point of this post.

The Nice Vote

If the currently questionable results are nonetheless the same as they would have been if this were an election of unquestionable integrity, then I think that the reason that Trump lost is due to the people who voted for nice.  He got more minority votes than in 2016, but most Democrats and Republicans unlikely changed their votes, so it had to be the nice vote.

What do I mean by that?  Here is the reason given by many people, both Democrats and Republicans, whom I personally know and generally respect, for why they voted for Biden:  They wanted to express their hope for a kinder and more civil country.  These people, despite reservations about the dangers of big government, or reservations about Biden’s past record and corruptions, despite praise for Trump’s foreign policies and his accomplishments toward peace in the Middle East, despite their approval of how he was able to handle and improve the economy and the economic status of minorities, despite these acknowledgements and more, these people simply voted for nice.

Now, I happen to think they made a big mistake.  But I also think that they were not even seeing what was right before their eyes.  While Biden claims to be a nice guy, he is not.  He is a career politician and with that comes the self-interest and lying that is a common part of that role.  While he says he is a straight shooter, he is not straight with the American people. 

As I listen to Biden and his unauthorized transition team make more and more pronouncements about their plans, I become more and more concerned for America.  I wonder if the nice vote is beginning to realize what they voted for, and if they are beginning to have some sort of buyer’s remorse.

I also realize that if one is going to vote based on nice, then they really have very little understanding of our country and how it works.  Most of those I know who voted for nice live outside cities in comfortable suburbs.  They are of the type often referred to as “soccer moms” (though some are not moms, and some are men).  They have not experienced firsthand what it is like to live in a city, either as one of the privileged or as one of the underclass. 

Violence is likely something that is not part of these nice voters’ regular lives, although they see it on TV and therefore from a media perspective – a narrative, not a reality.  They have the things they need, including material goods and things like healthcare.  They feel badly for those who don’t, but they themselves do not experience it. 

Looking from afar they are told how those sorts of problems should be dealt with rather than having any real understanding of those problems.  So, they vote for what they feel is nice, be it nicer, more sophisticated verbiage, or nice sounding narratives about the future that a candidate will create.

But nice is not a requirement for any of the systems of our government.  And indeed, nice is often ineffective.  If we accept for the purpose of discussion the proposition that Biden is nice, then for 47 years his niceness was totally ineffective in getting anything done for the country. If anything, many of the programs his nice verbiage supported were more harmful than beneficial to our country or certain groups of people within our country.   Former President Obama made nice speeches, but his actions tore this country apart as he built and strengthened a politics of identity. 

Yet President Trump, with his rough and often acrimonious words, accomplished so many things that the nice talkers have only talked about for years:  prison and criminal justice reform, return of economic hope for inner city minorities, better quality of life for most Americans, more opportunities for all, but especially minorities, return of respect around the world, working to end foreign wars and bringing troops home; improved trade agreements that are fair to our own country, the list goes on.  He made and kept his campaign promises.  He followed the law and the Constitution.  And in getting it done he was often not nice. But his actions benefited our entire nation.

And that is what a President is supposed to do.  Support our laws and our Constitution.  Work hard, but within our system.   Put our country first.  Work to make things better for all of our people, not just those belonging to favored identity groups.  

There is no requirement of nice.  And indeed, no one can mandate nice because, at least in this country as long as we retain our Constitutional protections, people have the right to their own views and to speak their own words, and sometimes that is not nice.

The nice voters have in my mind been fooled by pretty words.  Pretty promises – we will all be civil and we will all get along and the government will take care of everyone in a kind way.  In the words of Thomas Sowell:  “Mystical references to ‘society’ and its programs to ‘help’ may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.”

Listening to the plans being put forth by Biden and his handlers since he was declared the presumptive winner tell us that the nice that these people voted for will be a large government in charge of our lives and a diminishment if not loss of our freedoms, especially those set forth in the First and Second Amendments of our Constitution. They voted for a loss of our nationhood and a movement toward the New World Order.  They voted for loss of tolerance for individuality as we move toward a society where even our thought will be under government control.

What they voted for may sound nice, we may not hear so many acrimonious words (though I doubt that), or they will only be spoken in secret behind closed doors, but what they really voted for is not what I would call nice.  What they voted for is a march down the path toward full out socialism and all the evils and pain and suffering that brings.   

I think the nice voters made a huge mistake.  I suspect it will not take them long to realize that.  But it may nonetheless be too late.   God save us from nice!