Ned Ryun has some good points about the election chaos we are witnessing. Still, I hope some of his predictions don’t actually happen. From his article at American Greatness:
The frightening part of what is
happening is that regardless of who eventually wins, half the country will
think the other side stole the election. It undermines the legitimacy of
whomever takes the oath of office in January. There’s no avoiding that now. And
that is a devastating place to be in for us as a country. It undermines the
integrity of the process and causes us to lose trust in institutions that we
already barely believed in. If you thought we were fraying at the edges
already, try half the country looking upon the other half as usurpers.
What has happened in our country is
that partisan public officials have, for short term gain, illegally changed the
rules in the middle of the game, outside of the legislative process, and in so
doing annihilated the democratic process and the integrity of the electoral
vote. What does this mean for us as a people? Nothing good.
Republics are in serious trouble
when politicians break laws behind closed doors with impunity. But republics
are over, however, when those laws are actually broken out in the open for
everyone to see and there are no consequences.
History tells us that at some point
if a country cannot settle its differences like civilized people at the ballot
box in a system they trust, they stop talking with ballots and start
communicating with bullets.
Mr. Ryun’s full article is here.
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