"Trump’s 'stop the steal' is a classic literally-false-but-metaphorically-true myth. No, the 2020 Presidential election was not stolen."
I understand your point, but I believe you overlook the fact that electoral outcomes can be--and have been--corrupted and suborned under color of law.
This is in fact the very argument that is made by those who oppose voter ID laws on the basis that they "suppress the vote." While a substantial part of that argument is mere bloody-shirtism, what is really in play is the ability to manipulate the outcome by blurring who is actually eligible to vote. This was also at the core of the arguments about mail-in and drop-box ballots during the Late Unpleasantness.
You are certainly correct that the "stop-the-steal" argument lacks nuance...though of course, such nuance as is a part of the argument is flattened out by the media's selective reporting. But it is a fact that there have been several presidential elections in our checkered history that have been marred by what I'll call irregularities, all of which were fully and entirely legal and within the four corners of the Constitution: 1824, 1876, and 1960 come to mind. And of course we have spent nearly a quarter-century listening to certain people re-litigate the outcome of the 2000 election as well.
I realize this issue is not central to your larger point, with which I completely agree. I merely wish to respectfully point out that it is neither a new issue nor one that is limited to demagoguery.
Compulsory voting in America would be adding to our lists of Humiliation Rituals which are already too long. Like Masks - Humiliation to no effect.
To begin the politicians have little power compared to the bureaucracy and that is by law.
Further the Chicago style elections that have are now automated and 'fortified' nationally, but OF COURSE NOT STOLEN ! DISGRACEFUL MYTH! ..... er, no. No compulsory voting.
Not in America.
You see we kept our arms, and it's just unwise to compel us further for meaningless and utterly discredited rituals.
In America the borders are open to increase headcount for the bureaucracy; the Real Patron in Patron/Client. The cities are emptying out of office workers, industry left with the Automobile.
So When Texas sends NYC it's migrants, Texas helps NYC ....IF the Dems get the Federal aid.
this has nothing to do with voting.
Really voting in America has little to do with our actual Politics at all, if you accept that Politics is Power.
BTW, in the UK we are now experiencing the effects of importing high value migrants - these billionaires start to think they own the country and have the resources to do so.
I have revisited this piece multiple times and even listened to it via the app. One of the primary reasons for my repeated engagement with this content is that I find myself in strong disagreement with the Anywhere cognitive elite on numerous socio-political issues, despite hailing from a Third World somewhere background. The discomfort I experience, as a somewhere individual in a world dominated by Anywheres (particularly within my work environment in universities where over-credentialization is prevalent), has led me to experience a sense of social ostracization, which ironically resembles the very cycle I had hoped to escape from in my previous somewhere world. I wholeheartedly concur with the statement: "Once you see the Anywheres/Somewheres division, it becomes hard to un-see; forms of it reach deep into history." Thank you for sharing your insights in this article!
Something to remember is that many of the Anywheres grow out of it. They either decide to go home, or they were always looking for a home, and finally find one. This leads me to believe that when we take our next look at immigration, and how to rerform it, we need a different sort of work visa, for the people who mostly want to see the world, experience the broadening effect of travel, maybe teach others a bit about their home culture, etc.
"Trump’s 'stop the steal' is a classic literally-false-but-metaphorically-true myth. No, the 2020 Presidential election was not stolen."
I understand your point, but I believe you overlook the fact that electoral outcomes can be--and have been--corrupted and suborned under color of law.
This is in fact the very argument that is made by those who oppose voter ID laws on the basis that they "suppress the vote." While a substantial part of that argument is mere bloody-shirtism, what is really in play is the ability to manipulate the outcome by blurring who is actually eligible to vote. This was also at the core of the arguments about mail-in and drop-box ballots during the Late Unpleasantness.
You are certainly correct that the "stop-the-steal" argument lacks nuance...though of course, such nuance as is a part of the argument is flattened out by the media's selective reporting. But it is a fact that there have been several presidential elections in our checkered history that have been marred by what I'll call irregularities, all of which were fully and entirely legal and within the four corners of the Constitution: 1824, 1876, and 1960 come to mind. And of course we have spent nearly a quarter-century listening to certain people re-litigate the outcome of the 2000 election as well.
I realize this issue is not central to your larger point, with which I completely agree. I merely wish to respectfully point out that it is neither a new issue nor one that is limited to demagoguery.
"No, the 2020 Presidential election was not stolen."
Oh. What was it.... ?
Fortified perhaps?
Compulsory voting in America would be adding to our lists of Humiliation Rituals which are already too long. Like Masks - Humiliation to no effect.
To begin the politicians have little power compared to the bureaucracy and that is by law.
Further the Chicago style elections that have are now automated and 'fortified' nationally, but OF COURSE NOT STOLEN ! DISGRACEFUL MYTH! ..... er, no. No compulsory voting.
Not in America.
You see we kept our arms, and it's just unwise to compel us further for meaningless and utterly discredited rituals.
In America the borders are open to increase headcount for the bureaucracy; the Real Patron in Patron/Client. The cities are emptying out of office workers, industry left with the Automobile.
So When Texas sends NYC it's migrants, Texas helps NYC ....IF the Dems get the Federal aid.
this has nothing to do with voting.
Really voting in America has little to do with our actual Politics at all, if you accept that Politics is Power.
https://compactmag.com/article/the-sanctuary-city-ponzi-scheme
Great stuff.
Your piece could be straight out of: Practical Idealism by Coudenhove-Kalergi: https://pol-check.blogspot.com/2015/06/practical-idealism-by-richard-nicolaus.html Kalergi was an ardent supporter of the Anywheres and was pivotal to the foundation of the EU.
BTW, in the UK we are now experiencing the effects of importing high value migrants - these billionaires start to think they own the country and have the resources to do so.
I have revisited this piece multiple times and even listened to it via the app. One of the primary reasons for my repeated engagement with this content is that I find myself in strong disagreement with the Anywhere cognitive elite on numerous socio-political issues, despite hailing from a Third World somewhere background. The discomfort I experience, as a somewhere individual in a world dominated by Anywheres (particularly within my work environment in universities where over-credentialization is prevalent), has led me to experience a sense of social ostracization, which ironically resembles the very cycle I had hoped to escape from in my previous somewhere world. I wholeheartedly concur with the statement: "Once you see the Anywheres/Somewheres division, it becomes hard to un-see; forms of it reach deep into history." Thank you for sharing your insights in this article!
Something to remember is that many of the Anywheres grow out of it. They either decide to go home, or they were always looking for a home, and finally find one. This leads me to believe that when we take our next look at immigration, and how to rerform it, we need a different sort of work visa, for the people who mostly want to see the world, experience the broadening effect of travel, maybe teach others a bit about their home culture, etc.