Reasons behind the Corruption
In the past 75 years, post-Reagan, Republican politicians and their handlers have been corrupt and treasonous at every turn of events. Post-Nixon, Russsia’s useful idiots worked hard to purge every moderate, patriot, and rational thinker from the Republican Party and Reagan/Bush was culmination of all that “work.” Like Trump, Reagan filled his cabinet with billionaire shills and actual billionaires and outright criminals with close Russian ties. And Republicans began filing past Russia’s oligarchs with their hands out for bribery and treason paychecks. The already despicable two-party concept rolled on to its obvious denouement, where neither party represents America’s best interests and one party barreled into the race to the bottom without restraints or decency.
A 2016 novel, The People’s House, by David Pepper, is an exploration of how and why Republicans and Russians could, and probably did, pervert a national election, stacking the House of Representatives with even more Russian shills and turning the old Midwest into a cesspool of fraking environmental damage. The novel’s Russian antagonist’s tactic accomplished this goal by manipulating the electronic voting machines of a former-US company his shell company purchased. We’ve already been here in 2000 and 2024, but the method the book’s investigators used to determine how the electronic voting data could be corrupted is the point in this essay.
The book’s investigators compared the data from mail-in votes (hard copy) to the electronic votes and found that the electronic votes were substantially different in the down-ballot elections. Herr Trump has been making a lot of noise about eliminating mail-in votes. Wonder why? Mail-in votes are hard copy and can be verified, examined, and recounted, while all electronic votes are no more verifiable and honest than Trump and Russian crypto-currency. A lot of Americans assume the 2024 election was stolen by Elon Musk for his Russian buddies and, secondarily, for Trump and the Republicans. Trump is mounting an all-out attack on mail-in voting with over-the-top idiocy, “Cheating on mail-in voting is legendary. It’s horrible. Democrats want to use it for cheating.” This was the kind of crap Trump had been spewing, leading up to signing an executive order aimed at restricting mail-in voting and restricting voting access to MAGA culters.
Any idiot would know that we have a lot more to worry about with unmonitored electronic voting and Republicans often get snagged and, sometimes, convicted of illegal voting. As always, with Republicans “every accusation is a confession.”