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A Government of, by, and for the people?

By Bobbie Kirkhart

Pho­to Cred­it: “Unit­ed States Capi­tol” by Phil Roed­er is licensed under CC BY 2.0

We Amer­i­cans har­bor a huge dichoto­my in our atti­tudes toward our coun­try. We dis­play our patri­o­tism in bor­der­line chau­vin­is­tic man­ner, play­ing the nation­al anthem before every major sport­ing event, and church ser­vices fre­quent­ly include impas­sioned praise of our nation and some­times pro­mote the idea that loy­al­ty to god must include equal loy­al­ty to the country.

We Amer­i­cans, myself includ­ed, love our coun­try. It’s sur­pris­ing that many of my fel­low cit­i­zens hate our gov­ern­ment. It’s a pejo­ra­tive to call some­one a politi­cian. Can­di­dates for office who have no gov­ern­ment expe­ri­ence proud­ly run as ‘out­siders’ and often eas­i­ly win a seat. Amer­i­cans do not rec­og­nize pop­u­lar pub­lic pro­grams as gov­ern­ment cre­at­ed and spon­sored by Wash­ing­ton. I’ve heard more than once the demand, “Keep gov­ern­ment out of my Medicare,” which is, of course, a gov­ern­ment pro­gram. Pres­i­dent Ronald Rea­gan was cheered when he told us, “Gov­ern­ment is not the solu­tion to our prob­lem, gov­ern­ment is the prob­lem.” Amer­i­cans per­ceive cor­rect­ly that the gov­ern­ment does not rep­re­sent all the people.

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Re-re-recount (and counting)

By Bobbie Kirkhart

As the world knows, Don­ald Trump’s 2016 elec­tion to the pres­i­den­cy had healthy assis­tance from Russ­ian bots that, in spite of their non-human cir­cum­stance, knew a great deal about unver­i­fied cor­rup­tion of Hillary Clin­ton and were gen­er­ous­ly eager to share that infor­ma­tion with cer­tain recep­tive seg­ments of the Amer­i­can pub­lic. Dur­ing that time, there were ver­i­fied attempts to hack into 21 states, but we nev­er found out if they were suc­cess­ful as the Trump admin­is­tra­tion declared the bud­get wouldn’t allow for an inves­ti­ga­tion. Some high­ly sus­pi­cious Amer­i­cans (we call them Democ­rats) wor­ried aloud that the 2020 elec­tion might also be rigged. For­tu­nate­ly, Trump knew how to tell. Dur­ing the cam­paign, when Joe Biden was lead­ing in the polls, he stat­ed that if Biden were announced the win­ner, we would know the elec­tion was rigged. Well, Biden was announced the win­ner, so there you have it, clear proof of fraud.

Pho­to cred­it: “super green nin­ja ‘with lasers’” by TheAlieness Gise­la­Gia­rdi­no²³ is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

And if you’re won­der­ing what this image has to do with the elec­tion recounts, then…

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