'This latest chapter in 2020, the Year of Fear, will help to keep
most everybody panicking, and vividly divided, and therefore easy prey.'
By Mark Crispin Miller: In a genuinely democratic country, where the will of the electorate
is sacrosanct, there would be no rush to call a close, contested
presidential race, especially one using new mail-in ballot systems
nationwide. Rather, there would be a comprehensive, thorough and
(somehow) impartial forensic study of the vote, requiring everyone to
chill, and wait for a fair determination.
That isn’t going to happen here and now, as the will of the
electorate has, for decades, been systematically subverted and denied in
the US, which has the worst voting system in the developed world. It’s
going to be a savage free-for-all (or look like one), with each side
favoring its (seeming) champion, until some catastrophic resolution that
will probably entail still more totalitarian restrictions (i.e.,
martial law). It would be nice (to say the least) if there were an
election integrity movement focused on the integrity of our elections,
and not just on beating Trump; but there isn’t one.