On June 15, Blaze Media posted a conversation between Glenn Beck and Sara Gonzales who had just spent some time examining the voting protocols in Michigan. Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who replaced her Republican predecessor in 2018, is a radical Leftist affiliated with billionaire George Soros who is virtually a communist. Under her jurisdiction, voting by mail, which has been banished in many states as eminently susceptible to fraud, is still allowed. Even more outrageous, however, was her decision to mandate “same-day registration” without the need to produce any photo evidence whatsoever of one’s identity. Glenn Beck joked that inasmuch as he had not been able to get a fishing license without photo I.D., it was bizarre that voting was somehow exempt from this requirement. In typical Leftist fashion, such decisions are inevitably explained as a matter of social justice, the belief that many of the impoverished would be excluded from their right to vote because they simply could not afford the photo evidence in question. In response to this argument, Michigan’s Republicans proposed a bill entitling every citizen in the state to free photo I.D.. Outrageously, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, vetoed the proposal.
While the gap is shrinking, the majority of impoverished Americans, both Black and White, have traditionally voted Democrat. I have no doubt that Whitmer, assuming these demographics to be less than likely to acquire the proper voting credentials even if free, was motivated by sheer self-interest in vetoing the Republican bill. By sanctioning phone-in voting while requiring no unequivocal evidence of the identity of those who vote in person, she has literally invited rampant abuse of the American electoral system. Illegal aliens, not entitled to vote, can easily do so without fear of detection. And of course they will vote for the simpleton who let them into the country. At the same time a host of Trump haters, having acquaintances with no intention of voting, can vote more than once by assuming their identities, given the ridiculously slack protocols endorsed by Whitmer. If you don’t think the rabid hatred of Trump relentlessly stoked by the media could incite such abuse, you are either incredibly naive or, perhaps, just another impenetrably self-righteous “liberal.”
Not unexpectedly, Gonzales discovered that Michigan’s voting lists continue to contain the names of thousands who are in fact deceased. 105% of the state’s population, she quipped, is apparently entitled to vote! Such disdain for the basic, rational procedures needed to insure the integrity of the electoral process is not uncommon these days, most of the states [i.e., New York] guilty of such being ruled by Democrats. Michigan is a “swing state” which Trump won in 2016 by 10,000 votes. Might the fact that he lost it in 2020 by approximately 155,000 be in any way attributed to the machinations of Whitmer and Benson, or is the very suggestion just more “right-wing” fanaticism?
The contempt for the Rule of Law manifest in Michigan’s voting protocols pervades the contemporary Left. We’ve seen the approach to drug abuse “liberalized,” the laws governing immigration cast aside, career criminals released on negligible bail, the burning of churches here in Canada defended as justifiable responses to our “genocidal” past, etc., etc.. So it is hardly surprising that America’s Democrats, convinced of the sanctity of their cause, are willing to undermine the legal foundations of Democracy itself, while outrageously, ironically, claiming you-know-who to be the chief threat to that system.
Did you know that in 20 U.S. states, Motor-Voter laws automatically register licensed drivers to vote while offering no other proof of their right to do so? So an illegal immigrant who drives a car can now easily cast a ballot expressing his contempt for Trump’s immigration policies, while in no way actually entitled to vote. The election of 2020 was incredibly close. Trump came within 44,000 votes, spread across 3 closely contested states, of winning that election. I understand I am making arguments that might benefit that individual most hated by the political Left. But what is more important, the integrity of the laws designed to preserve our Democracies, or the demonstrably irrational views of those who put their feelings before such principles.
Biden, CBS has reported, is about to legalize the citizenship of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. In doing so, is he not encouraging illegal immigration? Is he not exacerbating the chaos already evident at the Mexican border? And is he not doing so simply to increase the presence of those who are almost certain to vote Democrat in all upcoming elections?