THE MORNING RANT: “Preserving Our Democracy” – While National Democrats Purge Their Democratically Elected Nominee, Georgia Democrats Seek to Purge Competition from the Ballot

The big news over the past several weeks – outside of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and related security omissions – has been the ongoing palace coup against Joe Biden.

The news media and pundits became domestic Kremlinologists as they tried to work their sources for leaks about what was going on behind closed doors among high-ranking Democrats who sought to remove the sitting President from the ballot, even though President Biden had won the nomination at the ballot box during the primaries.

We should not be having palace coups in this country. We ought not need Kremlinologists to determine if “the party” is planning a coup. And we cannot tolerate ballot-substitutions for general elections after voters have already democratically* chosen their party’s candidate via primary elections. [*I am using the generally accepted definition of “democracy” as being representative government as elected by voters. The fact that we are largely governed by bureaucrats and judges but not by elected representatives is a discussion for another day.]

National Democrats and their media mouthpieces have made “saving democracy” the foundation of their sales pitch in the Trump era. But now we are finding out that Democrats will gladly sabotage democracy to avoid losing power. Apparently you must undermine democracy to save democracy.

It’s not just national Democrats launching an assault on the ballot box however, it’s happening at the state level too. In Georgia, state Democrats are furiously trying to keep a collection of leftist presidential candidates off the ballot, lest they draw votes from whomever the Democrats finally install as their un-democratically chosen presidential candidate.

“Georgia Democrats file challenges to keep Kennedy and others off presidential ballot” [AP – 7/15/2024]

Georgia Democrats are challenging efforts to place Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and three other candidates on the state’s presidential ballots, part of a nationwide effort to block candidates who could siphon votes from incumbent President Joe Biden.

The Democrats’ efforts to keep other left-wing presidential candidates off the November ballot isn’t just restricted to the state of Georgia.

Spokespersons for alternative candidates say they’re also seeing challenges in Delaware, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia. “We expect to be challenged in every state that we file in this year,” said Rick Lass, ballot access director for the Green Party’s Stein.

Oh right, the Green Party. I vividly recall the 2000 election when Democrats proudly embraced “election denialism” and accused George W. Bush and the Supreme Court of stealing the election. Democrats were also furious at Ralph Nader and the Green Party for capturing the votes of eco-minded individuals who otherwise would have cast their presidential ballots for climate prophet Al Gore.

Kennedy and Cornel West, seeking access as independents in Georgia, can only make the ballot through the petition process. Claudia De la Cruz, the nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, also submitted petitions. All three say they submitted enough signatures before a July 9 deadline. Currently, voter registrations and signatures are being verified by county election offices…

Activists are obtaining thousands of signatures via petitions to get their candidate on the ballot. Who could oppose that level of grass roots democracy? The answer is, “Democrats.”

Democrats also argue that at least some of the signatures on the petitions filed for Kennedy, West and De la Cruz are invalid because the petitions are wrongly or incompletely filled out. Democrats also argue that Kennedy and West, as independents, must submit separate petitions for all 16 electors. The challengers say West’s electors didn’t qualify before an earlier June 21 deadline, and that electors for Kennedy, West and De la Cruz all failed to pay required $1.50 filing fees.

”…at least some of the signatures on the petitions filed for Kennedy, West and De la Cruz are invalid because the petitions are wrongly or incompletely filled out.” Yet these same establishment Democrats objecting to imperfect petition signatures that might benefit the Green Party candidate are opposed to ballot integrity or performing signature verification on absentee ballots that benefit Democrat candidates in the general election. Go figure. It’s almost like there is not any great principle regarding “our precious democracy” going on after all. Who knew?

“We reject the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party in claiming to be the protectors of democracy from Trump as they infringe on the rights of tens of thousands of voters who want more options on the Georgia ballot,” Smolarek said in a statement.

“Saving our democracy” turns out to be just an Orwellian euphemism for snuffing out democracy whenever and wherever needed to keep the Democrats in power.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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