“IT WORKS BOTH WAYS”
by OPOVV, ©2014
(Nov. 1, 2014) — They called themselves the ‘People of the Valley,’ and they lived side-by-side for over 20 years. They helped build barns for one another; their children went to the same one-room school; they attended the same church where the Golden Rule was taught.
One year a drought struck, which put the People of the Valley in a quandary. They had the sun and the soil, but they lacked a dependable water supply. The solution was to pool their resources and build an aqueduct, or leave the valley. They took a vote and it was decided that they’d leave their valley. Little did they know that the ballots were rigged; that one of their neighbors committed fraud counting the ballots: in truth, the majority of the votes was to stay and do whatever it took to get the job done. After the people left, Mr. and Mrs. Sleaze traded potentially productive abandoned land for labor and had the viaduct built.
Neighbors backstabbing neighbors. People voting in good faith but their ballots are discarded. Voters trusting a system that’s broken because people are lying, cheating and stealing another’s trust because they themselves lack honor and are untrustworthy.
So who are these people who cheat us out of the opportunity to raise and make heard our voices via the ballot? Where was it that they learned that America isn’t worth a bit of honesty? How did they learn such behavior? And what makes them hate our country so much that they would smear its most sacred ceremony?
Our intelligence agencies have spent untold hours and dollars on what makes a person turn traitor. Some have used the excuse that money is the root cause, while others use an equally cheap excuse, such as “some other political philosophy is more desirable than our own.”
But these people who falsify our votes don’t consider themselves traitors, for they hold such a narrow view that they believe that they are doing their country a service. An example would be a manicurist cutting someone’s arm off in order to give a top-notch manicure: great manicure but they made a corpse. Same with voting fraud: some may applaud the outcome but the price very well may be the death of the Republic.
If one were to describe the USA in human terms, the heart would be the Constitution with honest elections being the life-blood. When one considers fraudulent elections as infections, it is within the realm of possibility that too many infections will kill the country.
Illegal immigrants are an infection; Muslims are an infection; and people who commit voter fraud are nothing other than despicable viruses that deserve to be eradicated at all costs in order to save the Republic.
There can be no greater fraud than to steal another’s trust, specifically votes. So let’s start to deal with it as if our lives depend upon it, because they do. The great thing about the Golden Rule is that it works both ways: those who break it have to accept the consequences. We do, and so shall they.