Each election cycle we’re told, “This is the most important election ever.” In some ways, that is true of every election. How about in 2024?
You think this is about whether to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, or President Donald Trump. It is about far more than that.
Our form of government, despite the power of the modern presidency, stems from local elections and then up the electoral tree, not the other way around. Today’s township board member becomes tomorrow’s state legislator, then Congressman; maybe Governor, or State’s Attorney General. One day, perhaps, a President.
We need to get the vote right on the entire ballot.
Take Minneapolis and St. Paul, for instance. Voters in those two cities have elected far left members to their city councils. Some openly declare themselves members of the Democratic Socialist Party. Their policies reflect their political beliefs. Do they serve the citizens of the Twin Cities?
Increasingly, the Twin Cities have become rougher, more dangerous and expensive cities in which to live. Property taxes spiral higher. Streets are not fixed, police departments are shrinking, prosecutors refuse to prosecute, housing stock is deteriorating, and public schools score close to the bottom in national and statewide tests, This story is repeated in many major cities across the country.
In states that elect judges, too few are challenged during an election. When one party’s Governors serve for long stretches of time, the judges those governors appoint when a judge retires are all single-party; in Minnesota, there are an overwhelming majority of Democratic Party sympathizers serving as district, appeals, and Supreme Court Justices (now 7-0 on Minnesota’s Supreme Court).
Well, isn’t whom we elect as President of primary importance?
In the case of Kamala Harris, who never won a single primary, at least from an election standpoint to the Democratic Party powerbrokers, what matters is they get their person in office. Forget “democracy” when they want to control the party’s nominee.
Harris would win a St. Paul City Council race by a landslide and fit right in.
Yes, the race between Harris and Trump is vitally important. As much as anything, it is about whether we can maintain any semblance of our Republic (see the Founders, 1787), or continue to spiral into failure as we try to save “our Democracy.”
The forces behind VP Harris, if she is our next president, will move us further along the road toward Big Government consorting with Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Big Whatever, toward the nanny state of which they have always dreamed.
Donald Trump, as he has proven, has no one behind him pulling strings. He has shown he will stand alone to achieve his purpose. That purpose is not to be a dictator, as some say (the presidency is tied down with laws), but to be a changemaker. The change will disrupt embedded powerbrokers such as those who gave us Kamala Harris.
Your vote this year is critical. You have the power to take us farther left toward the nirvana of the Democratic Socialist Party, or nudge us back toward our Republic. Yes, your vote will make a difference.
At least, vote.