justoffal
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I do agree...and once again I like the tone and tenor of your posts very much let me say....I so wish that what you are reaching for was actually available. Is is possible for people who voted for the other guy to respect the one who got elected instead? It may have been at one time ..... I fear however that it is no longer possible. A big yes to fraud....you are totally correct of course about its involvement in all elections up till now. The last time around however was fraud on a previously impossible scale...we have now graduated to electronic fraud which is exponentially more dangerous than the former. I say this with full knowledge of the fact that fraud is not unique to either major party and that it is only a matter of who cheats the best lately. In 2020 it was the Democrats who foisted the most effective lie machine. The problem with that is ( and they always fail to think of this ) it will be imitated from here on out by dozens of other groups. Dominion will have competition this time. There is no way in hell you are going to keep the others out of this game especially when it is so profitable and full of power effect...... I truly do fear for the future of elections .....there is a very big black cloud on the horizon.I could be wrong, let me say that up front. But I believe that an elected person has a responsibility to his/her constituents, even the ones that voted for the other guy. And his own well-being ought to come in at lest 3rd in that determination. Unfortunately, being human that doesn't happen too often, or should I say not often enough. Honestly, I believe that in McCain's case he was too enamored of his reputation for being a maverick, and that may have played too big of a part in some of his political decisions. And he took his lumps for that. As for Romney, lol I don't know what to think about that guy. My best guess is that he is guided by his own moral and religious convictions, that may in some cases not be in the best interests of his state or country or party. And he too has been vilified for that. I think there are times when you should do something that you might not agree with that might even cross your own sense of right and wrong, but you do it for the good of the country. Like voting against Trump in the impeachment trial, he should have put away his personal feelings and beliefs but he didn't do that.
As for an honest election, I doubt that we've ever had a totally honest election, or at least not that many. IMHO, there has always been and always will be a certain amount of fraud in local, state, and federal elections. The thing is to reduce it as much as possible, which I think most state legislatures are doing. Don't know how successful they will be, but at least they are trying.
JO