Voter Fraud By Every Voter - Part One

This is a seven-part "series" which should not be taken as a condemnation of those who choose to vote. It is merely a sincere appeal to the honor of the voter. If voters cannot respect and be willing to compromise with their opponent's wishes after losing an election, the veracity of holding any election is defeated. Voting becomes a fraud.

Picture if you will a procession of five thousand wagons, driving settlers west across the vast open plains of Kansas. The journey is long and tiresome. There are some dissenting voices. The majority of voices are gathering together in two specific camps. The first camp wants to continue on while the other camp wants to turn back. There are, of course, a couple of other minor camps with ideas about going north, south or some other ‘angular’ way but no one takes them seriously because they are small in number and hardly worth noting. (Sucks to be them)

So the five thousand pioneers agree that the best way to resolve their problems and stay a unified cohesive unit is to choose leaders from every camp and cast their ballots for one final unifying voice. Although everyone knows the victor will come from either the East Party or the West Party, everyone thinks it’s fair. Everyone agrees that whoever gets elected, that person will lead – period, end of story. That leader will decide the way. What a pious declaration it is.

So they all vote. And the candidate for the East Party wins. Yeah! We are going back East!

But the West Party is not happy. In fact, they are getting pretty ugly about the results. Although they consented to have an election to find a unifying leader, they never intended on losing the election, and they never really had any plans to obey the outcome if it didn’t go their way. They are not going to take one step backwards. They are not going to comply with, respect or tag along with this new leader.

So the West Party, instead of honoring the results of the election begins throwing up roadblocks. They make it very difficult for the East Party to get the wagon train moving East. They often pretend they didn’t hear certain orders that were given. Paperwork get lost or misplaced. Orders get confused. Some people even mislead other people so it takes longer and longer for everyone to know what is really happening. There is a lot of lying and exaggerating; lots of gossip.

When there are important repairs that need to be done, the West Party suddenly goes hunting and is nowhere to be found (think Wisconsin Democrats going to Illinois to avoid voting on Republican bill proposals). And then, when an epidemic runs through the whole camp and there are more sick people than there are healthy people, the healthy people in the West Party hide in their wagons and wait for the disease to pass (think Republicans opposing Obama Care as if it were a disease). It’s all done to distract, prolong and make the idea of turning around and going East a miserable idea. The West is content to oppose everything, sit still, and wait for the next election cycle.

Days turn into months, and the months soon become two years. Nothing has been accomplished, the caravan is still sitting in the same place it was on Election Day. There is still arguing about which way to go, although voting for a leader was supposed to decide that. They should have been going East a long time ago. The once beautiful land they are on is destroyed and wasted, the resources all drained and gutted, and no longer able to sustain the whole group. The election of the East Party leader looks like a disaster and the West Party blame him.

As winter settles in and food and housing becomes scarcer and scarcer, the ones who are the coldest and hungriest begin to notice that a few people from both the East Party and the West Party have collected an extravagant amount of personal resources, as if they are planning on staying here for a very long time. The idea of a unified forward movement has all but been forgotten. They are settling in and view the once unified camp as a body of haves and the have-nots. Sharing their good fortune with others until this crisis is over is out of the question because they have come to realize, despite all sincere efforts, this crisis is never going to end. The days of moving forward, or backward, or any other way are over. The winner of any future election, East Party or West Party, isn’t going to get this wagon train moving. It’s perpetually stuck in the mud of partisan warfare.

The side that loses any future election is never going to submit and honor their pledge to follow the winner from the other side. Once the votes are tallied, the losing Party, instead of consenting and following, is going to spend the next four years deliberately sabotaging, delaying and counteracting any move the winner tries to make.

We are all trapped by this vindictive hypocrisy coming from the East Party and West Party. And anyone who thinks their side is less to blame is blind to the truth. All of you, who continue to vote for this moronic exercise in futility, do not realize you are the ones performing the greatest voter fraud.

By confusing your allegiance to a single party with your commitment to the cohesive whole, you have perpetrated a stalemate that will not end without an eventual tyrant prodding it one way or the other. You think your loyalty to the Republican or Democratic Party is the American Way without realizing that the right to vote, and possibly lose and follow your opponent, is the American Way.

By refusing to honor the greater contract, the final results of your elections, you reveal the hypocrisy in voting.

The truth is, it is vain for anyone to vote to decide a leader, if you only plan on following the one you vote for. The greater contract of unity requires that you honor the system of elections and follow the lead of the one chosen, even if it is the one you did not want.

If you cannot do this simple thing, this honorable thing, then the purpose of having an election was useless.

When the people who opposed Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker decided to run him out of office the minute he started making changes to get the wagon train moving West, they were dishonoring the system of elections they vowed to cherish and respect. And I can hear all the Republicans cheering this statement.

But wait. Don’t be so quick to condemn the Democrats, you Republicans. When you started telling the country that getting rid of President Barack Obama was job #1 – you became equally complicit in the fraud. You boldly and foolishly told the world that your elections didn’t mean anything, and Obama wasn’t worthy to be your president.

Together, Republicans and Democrats made this wagon train immobile and embarrassing. Your insincerity towards the honor of the election system is revealed every time you snipe, criticize and resist the leaders who won your elections. You may not agree with them, but if you had any honor in you, and believed in the virtue of elections, you would follow your leaders lead.

If you took the time to vote, then your denouncement of Barack Obama as your President is abhorrent. If you took the time to vote, then your condemnation of Scot Walker is repulsive. You’re all just sore losers who want your way or no way.

If having an election was only a ruse to get your candidate into office, and you never had any intentions of honoring the system and the other side’s candidate if he or she won – then you never should have voted. You are a fraud.

If your elected leaders cannot unify the nation because the opposition to the victor never intends to follow the winner, then this expensive exercise in democracy is vanity.

In order for you to honor the system of elections that you say so many gave their lives to preserve, you have to go into the election with the idea that the other Party’s candidate might win, and for a while at least, it is in the best interest of everyone that you go the way you don’t want to go. Republicans need to follow Obama and Democrats need to follow Walker. And, if you can’t agree to do that, and your plan is to sabotage the other side if you don’t win, how fraudulent is the whole process?

Together, the East and the West – the Democrats and the Republicans - prove to me why having elections and casting a ballot means nothing. And by evidence of all this vanity you proscribe too, I believe it is you who vote that have no right to complain about the results of any election. By choosing to vote, you have agreed to honor the results. And to not accept the results is fraud.

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