I have a stack of articles before me which casually refer to Donald Trump’s “big lie” that the 2020 election was rife with voting irregularities. We all know the man has flaws not the least of which might be a level of arrogance rendering him incapable of accepting the will of the American people. But at the same time there is a tremendous amount of evidence suggesting that sheer hatred of Trump led many to the conviction that if cheating was necessary to rid America of his presence, it was perfectly justified. Investigations in various states coupled with works such as Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules” indicate that such cheating did in fact occur.
Of course the average lay person, including myself, has no way of knowing the truth. But what I find quite illogical and indeed criminally hypocritical, is the Left’s denunciation of Republican efforts to insure voting integrity, as racially motivated. If, as the Democrats and their media lackeys have insisted, the 2020 election was conducted legally, why resist efforts to purge the system of those Covid related protocols seemingly open to abuse? Ought not all law abiding citizens, out of respect for their democracy, to be perfectly willing to adhere to the Rule of Law, however defined? Or is the underlying reality of the Left’s response to Republican efforts to insure voter integrity the simple, cynical, Bigotry of Low Expectations, the racist notion that Blacks are either too stupid or lazy or morally indifferent to adhere to the rules?
Of course that’s not what we think at all, the average “progressive” would say, citing “systemic racism” as the cause of the inordinately high level of social/economic dysfunction in Black urban America. Yet courageous Black commentators such as Candace Owens and Larry Elder insist it is not White oppression but the decay of the Black family that is primarily responsible for trends the Left insists on blaming on White Supremacism. Theirs is a “conservative” perspective focused on the inner life of Man rather than on those “deterministic” forces now simplistically deemed by “intellectuals” to be the source of all human behavior.
In defense of their world-view, Owens and Elder point out the irony of the fact that 60 years ago when racism in America was demonstrably more pervasive and indeed “systemic,”crime rates amongst young, urban Blacks were nevertheless significantly lower. This, they insist, is a result of the license granted them today by their “progressive” advocates, a sense of entitlement that incites and implicitly forgives undisciplined, immoral, self-indulgent behavior. Hence the meteoric rise in sexual promiscuity among young Black males, resulting in the equally meteoric rise in the incidence of both Black abortions and young Black females forced to raise their children without paternal assistance. Kids born to fatherless Black “families,” the statistics unequivocally show, are significantly more likely to use drugs, join gangs and engage in criminal activity. [No one, by the way, is suggesting the moral decline among America’s youth is strictly confined to Blacks, the daily news making that sadly apparent.]
The outlandishness, then, of the Left’s relentless and decidedly unjustified dismissal of possible voter fraud in the last presidential election, is that it is the Left which implicitly promotes disdain for the Rule of Law as a vehicle of White oppression [i.e, it basically forgave B.L.M. and Antifa for the 2 billion dollars worth of damage they did in 2020], while then denouncing Republican attempts to ensure voter integrity as just so much racist bigotry. I believe this tactic is generally referred to as “Heads I Win, Tales you Lose.” It is absurd and yet has somehow come to dominate the joke that is contemporary media discourse.