Crooked Attorney General William Barr is promoting the idea of delaying or canceling the Presidential Election of 2020, as part of a plan to install Donald Trump as Dictator For Life, and it must and will be opposed by all legitimate law enforcement and constitutional authorities!
The Constitution makes it clear that a national election will be held every fourth year, and nothing has ever prevented that! And midterm elections are held every four years between Presidential elections, and nothing has ever prevented that.
In 1812, America was engaged in the War of 1812 against Great Britain, but a national election was held on time.
In 1814, at a time after Washington DC was attacked, and the White House and Capitol Hill were burned by the British in August, the midterm elections were held on time.
In 1846, in the midst of the Mexican War, midterm elections were held on time.
In 1862, after the massive loss of life in the Battle of Antietam during the Civil War, elections were held on time
In 1864, in a time of massive loss of life during the Civil War, a national election was held on time.
In 1918, as World War I was coming to an end but not yet having occurred, midterm elections were held on time.
In the years 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, and 1938, in the midst of the Great Depression, midterm and national elections were held on time.
In 1940, as Hitler was invading Europe and Japan advancing in Asia, and America staying out of World War II, a national election was held on time.
In 1942, as Americans fought on all battle fronts in World War II, midterm elections were held on time.
In 1944, after the D Day Normandy invasion in World War II, national elections were held on time.
In 1950, in the midst of the Korean War, midterm elections were held on time, and the same in the national election in 1952.
In 1966, 1968, 1970, and 1972, during the Vietnam War, midterm elections and national elections were held on time.
In the age of terrorism since September 11, midterm and national elections have been held on time every two years.
There is ZERO excuse for using the CoronaVirus pandemic as a reason to destroy our constitutional system, and any such attempt must be met with full force by constitutional authorities, who must prevent it, and arrest any perpetrators who attempt to sabotage American democracy!
Agreed, Professor. Instead of cancelling the election, we can have voting by mail.
Precisely, Former Republican, and it should be mandated as required in all states, not an issue of states’ rights, sorry!
The state governments MUST be required to obey, no debate!
Having the election by mail assumes, of course, that the USPS will remain fully functional thru this whole thing. Altho i suppose UPS, FedEx, and Amazon Prime could be contracted to fill any gaps that might arise, eh?
Four Questions:
1. Do You have a source, Dr Feinman, on Your assertion that “Attorney General William Barr is promoting the idea of delaying or canceling the Presidential Election of 2020, as part of a plan to install Donald Trump as Dictator For Life”? If You found that in a news item anyplace on the internet, it is well hidden from Google.
2. Of all the historical examples You used of elections being held in times of national crisis, how many of them involved conditions and circumstances that were impacting the entire nation’s economy, politics, society, and population?
As opposed to the very Localized situations in 1812, 1814, 1846, 1862, and 1864 [most of the fighting at that time was in the South, which wasn’t in the election anyway]? And how or why should Hitler’s invasion of Europe have impacted an election in the US in 1940? Or, given that there was no combat in the US in 1942, let alone on D-Day in 1944, or in the undeclared wars on Korea in 50s or Viet Nam in the 60-70s: Why should those elections have been cancelled? And the same after 9/11?
3. More importantly: How many of those emergencies involved a national ~ indeed international ~ health crisis, lockdowns, the shutdown of the economy, and so forth? You could have cited 1918 and the Spanish Flu, but somehow left that out of Your argument.
You wrote: “There is ZERO excuse for using the CoronaVirus pandemic as a reason to destroy our constitutional system, and any such attempt must be met with full force by constitutional authorities, who must prevent it, and arrest any perpetrators who attempt to sabotage American democracy!”
I couldn’t agree with You more about there being ZERO excuse for using COVID-19 to destroy our constitutional system, but who exactly are these “constitutional authorities who must prevent it”? Congress? The Supreme Court? That fourth branch of our government, The Federal Reserve? How about the military and intelligence matrix?
If the decision is made to cancel the election, I can assure You that all four branches of our government will be involved. They all are already in turning this whole thing into the Goat-F[expletive deleted] it is [with the possible exception of SCOTUS, at least so far].
4. And finally, doesn’t it seem like just a couple of weeks ago that I first floated the possibility of a declaration of a national emergency, martial law, a President For Life, and the cancellation of Election 2020? Remember all the “LOL LOL LOLs,” and the declamations that not only is the troll paranoid; he’s also a tinfoil-hatted conspiracy theorist? Anybody remember that?
Jeffrey, I DID mention 1918 in the article, if you re-read it!
All of the dates listed were times of stress in American life, but none may match this situation, but not an excuse to cancel elections!
The plan of Barr has been discussed on Rolling Stone website, Washington Post, NY Times, and other sources, and is a real threat, and now discussed this morning on CNN and MSNBC. Probably not on Fox News Channel, which is a propaganda organ for Trump, and lies all of the time!
Yet another week with yet more nutty rants by the troll.
The troll is never, ever going to be taken seriously here, therefore, the troll needs to leave, and never, ever come back!
I’m rather surprised that the troll hasn’t been kicked off before now because of the cussing in his rants.
The GOP Principles That Paved the Way For Massive Suffering
‘Government is bad. Science is suspect. We can go it alone.’
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/03/23/the-gop-principles-that-paved-the-way-for-massive-suffering/
One of the critiques that is often leveled at the NeverTrumpers is that, even as they reject the current president’s words and deeds, they fail to assume any responsibility for how we got here. That isn’t true of Stuart Stevens, who once served as Mitt Romney’s campaign strategist. He has written a courageous piece titled, “Republicans like me built this moment. Then we looked the other way.â€
[The failures of the government’s response to the coronavirus crisis can be traced directly to some of the toxic fantasies now dear to the Republican Party. Here are a few: Government is bad. Establishment experts are overrated or just plain wrong. Science is suspect. And we can go it alone, the world be da-ned.]
As the country deals with the fallout of this administration’s failure to respond to a pandemic, it is important to remember that it didn’t all start with Donald Trump.
During his 1981 inaugural address, the patron saint of the Republican Party—Ronald Reagan—famously said that “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.†He was articulating a foundational principle of the modern-day GOP, which sees government as the enemy of free-market capitalism.
Leading up to Reagan’s election, Republicans used the so-called “Southern Strategy†to win over support from the majority of white Americans for their efforts to dismantle the federal government. Harkening back to the Civil War, they did so under the banner of “state rights,†and by claiming that federal government initiatives were designed to help “those people.â€
During the Reagan era, a strategy to “starve the beast†was incorporated, which promoted tax cuts as a way to reduce federal revenue. One of the main proponents of that strategy was Grover Norquist, who famously said, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.â€
Fast forward to 2016 and we have Donald Trump running for president on a promise to “drain the swamp.†As we now know, that wasn’t an allusion to ending corruption. While serving as White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon explained that the goal was “the deconstruction of the administrative state.†Through a combination of incompetence and malevolence, they have been wildly successful in those efforts.
Because most of the programs and regulations administered by the federal government are supported by the majority of Americans, advocating for their dissolution has always required subterfuge. That is why one of the fallbacks has always been to employ racism. But when it came time to “starve the beast,†Republicans invented the lie of “trickle-down economics,†suggesting that tax breaks to the wealthy would somehow trickle down to the rest of us.
All of that meant that, as David Roberts wrote, Republicans became the post-truth party.
[Republicans thus talk about “taxes†and “spending†and “regulation†in the abstract, since Americans oppose them in the abstract even as they support their specific manifestations. They talk about cutting the deficit even as they slash taxes on the rich and launch unfunded wars. They talk about free markets even as they subsidize fossil fuels. They talk about American exceptionalism even as they protect fossil-fuel incumbents and fight research and infrastructure investments.
In short, Republicans have mastered post-truth politics. They’ve realized that their rhetoric doesn’t have to bear any connection to their policy agenda. They can go through different slogans, different rationales, different fights, depending on the political landscape of the moment. They need not feel bound by previous slogans, rationales, or fights. They’ve realized that policy is policy and politics is politics and they can push for the former while waging the latter battle on its own terms. The two have become entirely unmoored.]
In order to sell those lies, Republicans had to reject things like facts, science, and math. Experts on those matters were labeled “elitists†(most often relegated to liberal coastal states) who were attempting to silence the “heartland.†That became a rallying cry of the so-called “populists†during the 2016 election. This cartoon captures what it means to reject elitists who happen to be the experts.
(see political cartoon in article)
That attitude helps explain how we wound up with a man in the White House whose major claim to fame had previously been to star in a reality television series.
As the saying goes, I’m old enough to remember that Republicans howled when, during a 2004 debate, John Kerry suggested that a president’s decision to go to war should pass a global test of legitimacy. Four years later, they accused President Obama of leading from behind when he attempted to partner with our allies. Those were the harbingers to Trump’s isolationism captured by his “America First†mentality.
A Republican president is now presiding over the federal government’s response to a pandemic. He is doing so with a bureaucracy that has been decimated, while he lies, rejects the advice of experts, and assumes that a virus can be stopped by building walls. Stevens sums it up by writing, “What is happening now is the inevitable result of a party that embraced fear, weaponized xenophobia, and regarded facts as dangerous, left-wing landmines that must be avoided.â€
Of course, the first order of business for all of us is to get through this pandemic as best we can. But we should never forget that it wasn’t just Trump that failed in his response. He is heir to decades of Republican principles that paved the way for needless suffering on a massive scale.
Republicans are the party of Scrooge.
Virginia is joining the growing list of states issuing state-wide lockdowns.
Trump continues not to take the virus seriously, wanting America to get back to work.
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-economy-recession-donald-trump-0b5ab109-1a5e-4397-b54b-5f17d802c029.html
If Trump does that, he’s making an incredibly dangerous decision!
i did read it, Professor, and You mentioned 1918 in reference to WW i, and not the Spanish Flu. Which was exactly my point about how none of Your examples are relevant to what we are facing today..
And ~ as of 1:30pm AKDST ~ there is still no mention of it on Google or Google News. Maybe Google’s suppressing it, eh?
So, who are those “constitutional authorities” who are going to stop it?
And who’s blocking the Bailout now?
And actually, among the earliest mentions of a cancellation of the election was right here on The Progressive Professor with my broaching the issue last month.
And “Goat-F[expletive deleted]” is cussing? Far out.
McConnell’s second attempt to bully Democrats on $500 billion corporate slush fund failed again.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/23/1930378/-McConnell-s-second-attempt-to-bully-Democrats-on-500-billion-corporate-slush-fund-fails
Joe Biden shows how you be presidential and rips Trump’s poor response to coronavirus.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-donald-trump-coronavirus_n_5e78c397c5b63c3b64944326
Cable news should cancel the Trump Show
Airing Trump’s daily “briefings†live misinforms people and undermines public health officials.
https://www.vox.com/2020/3/23/21190362/trump-daily-coronavirus-briefing-fox-cnn-msnbc
Thank you Democrats for standing strong against Moscow Mitch!
I see Fauci wasn’t at the press conference today. Trump obviously doesn’t want the cold, hard facts to be told. The virus ain’t gonna end in 7 days.