Insanity Of Recent Events Should Tell Us One Thing

The Question?

Can an election be stolen? If one is to believe Donald Trump, the 2020 election was stolen from him by the Democrats and Joe Biden. It sounds incredible, crazy, paranoid, delusional, and many other words not fit for print or publication.

Even with some “questionable” realities around the 2020 election, as a moderate conservative, I found Trump’s claims unbelievable. There was no proof, only circumstances that made people believe there might have been skullduggery occurring.

Our vote has to count! That’s what we've been taught since we were children, even though many stop believing their vote matters by the time they’re in their 40s and 50s. While election security measures continually are something Republicans and Democrats fail to agree on, many on the left say requiring identification is an example of exclusion and even racism, shouldn’t election integrity be something we the people can depend on?

Perhaps it’s naive to think that our vote counts for anything in the 21st century. But now, after nearly three years of Trump and his associates swearing the election was stolen from them by some shadowy cabal-like conspiracy, and most people refusing to believe it was possible, we have a reason to believe it is a possibility.

The Indictment of Donald Trump

Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, you should want your rights upheld and your vote to matter. And if there is a chance it was stolen from you, your rights have been violated. It’s an unthinkable crime, and one that we would have thought impossible on the grandest stage of all elections, the Presidential Elections.

To no longer think it’s impossible, or couldn’t have happened, is an exercise in ignorance.

Some crimes sound impossible. After working in the criminal justice world for nearly 25 years, there are crimes so unbelievable that nobody would take them seriously. If you were accused of trying to steal land on the moon, as an example, the accuser would be laughed out of the room. That was the way many democrats and people who had faith in the election felt about Trump’s claims after 2020.

Now, as President Trump has been indicted for being part of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election away from Joe Biden, it’s officially a matter of record that stealing a presidential election is conceivable.

“Stealing A Presidential Election Was Conceivable”

Sit with that thought, for a moment, and regardless of what side of the fence you might be on politically, realize what the indictment means. The Department of Justice, our federal government, our law enforcement communities that investigate matters, The White House, Joe Biden’s Administration, and everybody who sought to bring down Donald Trump, believed that stealing an election was plausible.

What Does This Say For The Integrity Of Our Elections

If something can be conceived of, then it can be grown into a reality. Therefore, if manipulating, cheating, and stealing a federal election is conceivable enough that we are seeing an indictment against a former president, then it can be done. All that’s required to do something is:

The Motive: To win/retain power/gain power at the presidential level.

Means: The required assets to use to achieve your goal. (Billions of dollars, connections, like-minded associates, etc…)

Opportunity: The chance or instance to take action towards the furtherance of your offense.

Donald Trump may have had the motive and means to steal the presidential election, and he had the opportunity for it to become a thought after he lost. While he accused Biden and the Democrats of stealing it from him, without presenting a shred of proof, did they have the three elements?

From the moment that Trump won the election the Democratic party and even members within the Republican party worked against him having a successful presidency. He was the outsider that long-time politicians didn’t want in Washington, as well as dozens of billionaires and public figures that swore it was impossible. MOTIVE

With tens of billions of dollars at their fingertips and many public figures on their side, as well as control of the House and Senate, everything that was needed to attempt to control the outcome of the 2020 election was available to the Democrats.

When it comes to opportunity, the Democratic party and the power brokers within their ranks had from the day Donald Trump took office up to the 2020 election to figure out a way to unseat him one way or the other.

The Answer

Trump’s indictment proves one thing and one thing only. It proves that billions of dollars and manpower hours from the government and prosecutors now must admit that it is possible to steal a presidential election from the American people. And, since it’s now possible, Trump’s delusions about the election being stolen from him turn into less delusional allegations and become theories that lack any substantive proof.

Unfortunately, this means that our elections aren’t protected and secure, and the culprits of that lack of integrity connected to the voices of American people being heard is none other than the two-party system we are stuck with.

If Donald Trump can be indicted for attempting to steal an election that he lost, in the heat of the season between the vote and the presidential inauguration, whether you're a Republican, a Democrat, or an Independent, it would be foolish to believe that the election can't be stolen.

For there to be an indictable crime, a grand was show compelling evidence of a conspiracy to do something that was plausible. The investigators and prosecutors put together a case that convinced people the US Presidential Elections are so insecure that a half-baked, ill-conceived scheme, could change the future. Imagine a long-term, multi-faceted, and well-prepared approach.

Election security laws should now be something all of America pays attention to.