https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/arrestkatiehobbs-trending-on-twitter-following-explosive-claims-that-sinaloa-cartel-uses-money-laundering-bribes-to-control-katie-hobbs-and-others/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/watch-forensic-investigator-john-thaler-joins-brannon-howse-following-explosive-claims-that-sinaloa-cartel-uses-bribes-money-laundering-to-control-maricopa-county-elections/

Federal, State and local spending constitutes 44% of all GDP. Highest in peace time. THE Left Rules.

I cannot see how the non-Left can win an election again, nationally.

Hope these folks will enjoy their communal farm jobs. No industry, China will keep all of that.

So what changed?

1. The housing bubble of the late 1980s burst, at the same time the USA as a whole was experiencing a mild recession. In So Cal, it felt almost like a depression.

2. All 3 major auto makers had pulled out of southern California by 1992, which also affected the tire makers and every other industry that supplied parts and components.

3. Military base closures, with the downstream effects of that.

4. Aerospace companies tightening their belts, with the subsequent loss of high paying engineering and technical jobs.

All of the above contributed to an exodus of people who largely voted Republican. By the end of Pete Wilson’s second term in 1998, CA was deep blue.

For the most part, the Dems aren’t after more voters, but more voter registrations. These new registered voters don’t all of a sudden get interested in voting, drop everything, and go vote every two years. They are for the most part apathetic. That’s why they weren’t registered before. With Motor/Voter you typically have to positively decline not to be registered. But for the Dems, the registrations are the key, and it’s better that their new registrants don’t try to vote, because the Dems can safely vote in their stead.

We saw how they did it here in AZ the last two elections. Soros helped elect Katy Hobbs as Secretary of State. She oversaw the corrupt 2020 election, where FJB won the state’s electoral votes forFJB, and Kelly won the Senate race. With GA, the Dems probably won at least 3 Senate seats through voter fraud, giving them a working majority. And identified voter fraud in all 5 swing states won the election for FJB. She worked with Maricopa county officials to steal the election. They did the usual Dem tricks of printing up their own ballots, and sneaking them in, going through nursing homes picking them up there, often after helpfully filling them in, etc. we know what happened, because the state senate investigated, and found between 500k and 750k questionable, and likely bogus, votes for FJB and Kelly, and their margins of victory were, if I remember correctly, 10k and 20k respectively. The Republicans tried to tighten up voting laws to protect against this in the future, and the McCain backed Republican Gov Ducey signed them into law.

In 2022, with Hobbs still Secretary of State, and ran for Governor, not recusing herself, for obvious reasons. She never bothered to campaign, announcing that she had something else in mind. The FJB DOJ interceded to make sure that volunteer drop box watchers weren’t allowed close to the drop boxes. Signature verification systems were cranked up, so that the signatures had to be verified manually, and then the higher level county employees doing it, allowed in tens of thousands, and probably many more, bogus signatures. Moreover, the Maricopa County election supervisor had a demographic map up on his wall, showing where the Republicans were in his county, and, after the printing and counting machines had been verified and certified the day before the election, switched the programming to print ballots 1 inch smaller in Republican polling places. This resulted in them not scanning. The Republicans, who had waited to Election Day to make sure that their votes were counted, ended up in extremely long lines all day. Some tried to go to another polling place, only to discover that they had supposedly already voted, because they hadn’t been told that they had to check out, and how to do it, etc. Then a judge forced the polling places to close as required by law, even if there were still locks long lines of voters trying to vote. Moreover, the legally required audit trail of ballots for Maricopa County was mostly missing. Millions of ballots that shouldn’t legally have been counted, but were. That was Katy Hobbs’ plan, that they would steal from the election, instead of campaigning, and she is now the governor, by a tiny fraction of the half million, so far, of identified fraudulent votes cast and counted. As well as Kelly, and the other top state offices. All by maybe 1% of the votes counted.

That’s how the Dems win elections in these swing states – they massively cheat. They get control over the voting apparatus, manufacture Dem ballots out of thin air, use ballots for people who don’t live here anymore, are otherwise illegal, etc. The supply of those ballots is why the Dems do these voter enrollment drives. Republican votes aren’t counted, or are prevented from voting. And then they fudge the counts.

Much depends on where you live, but “disaffected” skews results. Plenty of non-voters aren’t disaffected. They just aren’t interested. Democrats can raise issues that appeal to those voters to get them to the polls. They appeal to the fears and resentments of minority groups and young, unmarried women, or they can just ballot harvest and pick up the ballots without the voters actually going to the polling places. Hence the big emphasis on getting ballots from college campuses and nursing homes, whether those votes were legitimately cast or not.

https://notthebee.com/article/high-school-kid-levels-woke-school-board-tells-them-hes-leaving-district-because-of-discrimination

No transcript of the short video, but a very articulate young man, of the sans-melanin variety, gave a very well written and delivered speech that totally ripped his high school’s policy of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” by giving examples of how their actions were the exact reverse, resulting in the demonization, demoralization, and depression of the non-BIPOC majority of students.

Which he no longer will be among, as he sang this swan song before announcing he was moving to a private school with no DEI-CRT-BLM discrimination.

Predicting that he would himself become President or a person of note someday (and he well may do so), he concluded, “It’s a shame you won’t be able to say I’m an alumni of RHS.”

Speaking to the points raised by most of the Salon, this post by Morse argues that, even if somehow we got a “national divorce” between conservatives and leftists, it wouldn’t last, because the Left would then attack the new Red America (and how I despise the pundits who deliberately switched the traditional colors for Left and Right!) with the same tactics it has used successfully to date, until it had to be divided again; then, again; then, again.

What happens with Zeno’s Paradox applied to countries?

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/02/20/lets-say-marjorie-taylor-greene-got-her-wish-on-a-national-divorce-n706111
“It would take a while to transform Red America into the America you see today, but not as long as you think. We would eventually return to where we are now, only with a smaller territory.”

RTWT – it’s a very succinct, and persuasive, explanation of how we got where we are now.

It’s also analogous to a metaphor well-known in the 2A community, The Cake Analogy (which I also call The Parable of the Woke):
https://thelawdogfiles.com/2010/09/ok-ill-play.html
(Long Q&A between LawDog and a fictional gun grabber)

I hear a lot about “compromise” from your camp … except, it’s not compromise.

Let’s say I have this cake. It is a very nice cake, with “GUN RIGHTS” written across the top in lovely floral icing. Along you come and say, “Give me that cake.”

I say, “No, it’s my cake.”

You say, “Let’s compromise. Give me half.” I respond by asking what I get out of this compromise, and you reply that I get to keep half of my cake.

Okay, we compromise. Let us call this compromise The National Firearms Act of 1934.

There I am with my half of the cake, and you walk back up and say, “Give me that cake.”

I say, “No, it’s my cake.”

You say, “Let’s compromise.” What do I get out of this compromise? Why, I get to keep half of what’s left of the cake I already own.

So, we have your compromise — let us call this one the Gun Control Act of 1968 — and I’m left holding what is now just a quarter of my cake.

And I’m sitting in the corner with my quarter piece of cake, and here you come again. You want my cake. Again.

This time you take several bites — we’ll call this compromise the Clinton Executive Orders — and I’m left with about a tenth of what has always been MY DAMN CAKE and you’ve got nine-tenths of it.

Then we compromised with the Lautenberg Act (nibble, nibble), the HUD/Smith and Wesson agreement (nibble, nibble), the Brady Law (NOM NOM NOM), the School Safety and Law Enforcement Improvement Act (sweet tap-dancing Freyja, my finger!)

I’m left holding crumbs of what was once a large and satisfying cake, and you’re standing there with most of MY CAKE, making anime eyes and whining about being “reasonable”, and wondering “why we won’t compromise”.

I’m done with being reasonable, and I’m done with compromise. Nothing about gun control in this country has ever been “reasonable” nor a genuine “compromise”.

Some of that has been reversed, but we by no means have the full cake back.

BONUS: The Cake Analogy in cartoon format:
https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2013/11/08/cake-and-compromise-illustrated-guide-to-gun-control/

A conversation at Sarah Hoyt’s blog, culminating in a general formulation of the Cake Analogy:

https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/09/07/things-fall-apart/#comment-873879

Hard-ore Democrats are like a religious cult. They never rest and are always trying to push the cult values onto others. They are like water, infiltrating every crack and weak spot. Always looking to advance their cause. It seems they never rest and are never satisfied.

I don’t know many of the hard-core cultists. I do know a lot of people who vote for them. They’re mostly well-meaning, mostly normal people who don’t pay much attention to the news. But when they do watch TV news or listen to radio, it’s the MSM. So, they get the Democratic propaganda. And now we’re finding out that social media is also a part of the propaganda effort. Would an honest media change things? IMO, it would certainly help. Many LIVs might vote for better government.

Then we have to learn to harvest ballots, register voters, clean up voter rolls, and oversee the counting of the votes. Easy, right? 🙂