For decades, the democrats and their allies in the media have saddled republicans with the dishonorable ambition of suppressing the vote; specifically, the vote of minority voters. Democrats charge that such a strategy subverts elections, denying victory to democrat candidates in closely contested elections, both local and federal. Their unstated thesis of course is that uncast minority ballots are, in fact, uncounted democrat votes. Because when minorities vote, you know, they vote democrat. It is a given.
They accuse republicans of gerrymandering districts to favor GOP candidates, a tactic known to be employed by whichever party holds the majority in the statehouse. It is a prime motivator for gaining majorities in state houses. Unfortunate, but undeniable. They accuse republicans of pressing for voter identification laws, something democrats claim, absent merit or calculus, results in diminished minority turnout. They accuse republicans of limiting access to polling stations in minority neighborhoods, curtailing operating hours and shutting out those still in line to vote. Open-minded people might conclude there may be some validity to some of that. They accuse republicans of purging voter rolls, unilaterally disenfranchising minorities, a charge thoroughly disproven yet still embraced by the failed Stacy Abrams 2018 gubernatorial campaign in Georgia. They accuse republicans of election tampering, a charge duly proven by the 2018 scandal and prosecutions resulting from the illegal harvesting of absentee ballots in North Carolina’s 9th Ward congressional race. Yet, upon enlightened reflection of that event, 2020 democrats deny the potential for voter fraud in the mass mailing of tens of millions ballots for the upcoming presidential election. Go figure.
These alleged republican abuses are but child’s play in the game of voter suppression devised and perpetrated by the very party that invented it. The party of the poll tax. The party of literacy tests. The party of Jim Crow. Those Dixie democrats knew how the game was played, and played it to win. And they delivered. But, as with so much in life, those that do not evolve, those that do not change with the times, they get left behind. So the democrats have fine-tuned their historically superior voter suppression efforts with a new sophistication: voter dilution.
Voter dilution is a demographics game designed to “flood the zone” with so many fringe voting blocks as to “dilute” the voting power of the everyday citizen. The first element is to appreciate the attrition rate of the citizen-soldiers, the millions of mostly white men who fought World War II, the Korean War vets well into their 80s, and encompassing the Vietnam War veterans, now in their 70s. Back in the day, these votes had to be won through tough campaigning on the so-called bread-and-butter issues: strong economy, strong defense, strong social mores. Or more colloquially, “God, Country and Family”.
As these millions of votes bleed out of the electorate, the democrats are succeeding in replacing them from a variety of voter pools: naturalized immigrants, generations of children born to illegal immigrants residing in the US, anchor babies attaining legal age, incarcerated felons and the mentally ill. Sixteen-year-olds aren’t far behind. Over time, open borders and the heralded “pathway to citizenship” for illegal immigrants will swell the rolls to outnumber what will be remembered only euphemistically as the American Electorate. And the progressive democrat party believe these votes are theirs to win, not on the traditional campaign issues cited above, but on the issues of social justice and redistribution of wealth.
Voter dilution remakes the foundational tenet of democrat voter suppression into something far more insidious and permanent. But why would the democrats embark on such a transformational journey, and to what end? For the same reasons that prevailed in the post-Antebellum South: to hold on to power. Back then, they didn’t want black judges, or black mayors, or black sheriffs, or black Senators, so they used their monopolies on those positions to suppress the vote; minority votes to be specific, in order to keep their hold on power.
But that model became unsustainable a century later as the Party of Lincoln continued to champion for equal rights under the law, striking down segregation and integrating the nation’s institutions. It was time to pivot, and the democratic party did so with zealotry, redistributing wealth with its war on poverty and enacting affirmative action that introduced the divisive notion of identity politics into the culture. Embracing a stratagem of liberal pandering and bogey-man politics, the democrats flipped the narrative so that the republicans became the party of repression and the democrats the party of enlightenment. This turn of events could not have been achieved without first seeding academia with like-minded sycophants to groom and harvest generations of malleable minds, and later, populate the newsrooms across America with covert bias. Nor could it have been achieved without republicans cashing in their values for corporate profits and a coveted life of privilege, for which they seemingly could abide an ever-growing list of aberration and abhorrence of societal norms.
Some fifty years hence, the country has been brought to a crossroad. The remnants of the American Electorate, populated with assimilated nationalities that still cherish the founding principles rooted in individual freedoms and the promise of earned prosperity, or the confluence of alternative visions for America, too disparate to be indexed here. Whether we remain one nation under God, or a federation of regional sects beholding only to the State, is entirely dependent upon what rises from this emerging, amorphous electorate on November 3rd.