(06-07-2023, 01:19 PM)Snarl Wrote: There just needs to be enforceable penalties for dorking around with your vote or anyone else's. If we cut the offender's hands off ... right about the shoulder ... the point would be very clear: "Don't do that. It's not worth it."
But ... I'm of the opinion we ain't voting ourselves out of the situation we're in. The government would have to be put down at the 100% level. Resistance would have to be met exclusively with the force of annihilation. And, the reason for that, is the necessity of exterminating anti-societal ideologies.
FWIW, I see the futility of it all. I see the younger generations behind us have been taught something that is going to lead to sweeping and virtually unstoppable change. Killing them all isn't a workable solution though. I made two one-day trips behind the Iron Curtain. What I saw was a landscape of umber desolation only an author of Tolkien's abilities could adequately pen. I saw peoples who had completely given up and accepted 'nothingness' as their fate. Remember what it was like seeing all those people surge out of the USSR after The Wall came down?
I'm pretty sure that's what we're going to have to go all the way through. That ... or die fighting it. What I find to be the most ironic, is that even though there are people still alive who lived through Communism ... they're just letting their leaders take them right back down that path again. I guess some people will do ANYTHING to not have to fight and just survive life as it comes at 'em.
I saw yesterday where the Left is developing a panic because Millenials are starting to shift towards Conservative - it happens to almost all of us as we get older and gain experience of the world. For that reason, I think it might be more prudent to try to fix the ballot box by eliminating vote theft and dead folks voting Democrat before we haul out the bullet box.
You may be right, and a genocide of sorts may be required to fix the world, but we won't know if we can avoid that unless we try, and that starts by attempting to fix the ballot box to see whether it is irretrievably broken before we start hanging folks from lamp posts.
If that doesn't work, then we've had that much more time to make more rope - it'll take a lot of rope if we have to go that route... so it's best avoided if we can.
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