Why the GOP is irrelevant

 

What I decided to do in response to the Arizona legislature's audit of the 2020 vote was to shut down my own research of it. This was pretty much validated as the correct thing to do, because the failure to ACT on the information presented renders such activity meaningless. So, I just now was listening to Bongino's podcast, and I think: what a waste of time. I shut it off. What can I write here to explain myself so that it can be easily understood?

Maybe it really isn't rocket science here. Those who try to obfuscate are making it all sound so terribly, terribly complicated. But it isn't really. You boil it all down, and it is nothing but a scam. Both parties are scamming us. Okay? Simple enough? But what are my grounds for such a claim?

How do you prove somebody is scamming you? In this case, I'll say anytime when something doesn't make sense, then you can suspect a scam. For example, why would the legislature order an audit, but do nothing in response to it when it is finished? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to do it unless the whole point was to MISLEAD people. What are they misleading us about?

For an answer to that, first realize that the Arizona legislature has certain powers to act, if they so chose. For instance, if they chose to pass a resolution in response the the audit that votes up or down a certain proposition, then there is nothing that the Federal government can do to stop it, nor is there any power anywhere that I know that would prevent it except the legislature itself. If that proposition was that the election outcome was validated or invalidated, then you have a RESULT that is worthy of note. Otherwise, there seems little point in the entire exercise. The resolution may not have any legal binding but it IS important to have a meaningful response to the information presented. Punting the matter to the Arizona Attorney General isn't very impressive.

Here's a sidebar here to further get across a point I hope to make: In the book, You Can Negotiate Anything, the late Herb Cohen said something about POWER that may be worth repeating here. He said that in any negotiation that the way POWER works is that if you think you have it, you have it. This is true even when you don't have it. If you don't think you have POWER, then you don't have it even though YOU DO.

When I observe the way the GOP acts and the way the Democrats act, I see that same dynamic. The Democrats act AS IF they have power that they DON'T have, while the GOP acts like they DON'T have power when they DO. The result is that the Democrats can make all kinds of silly, absurd claims that they have no business making; and the GOP will act like there's not a DAMNED thing that they can do about it. In other words, the Democrats always act like they are the Majority party even when they aren't, and the GOP always acts like the minority party even when they aren't. The late Rush Limbaugh used to talk about this very thing.

This is a scam. I'm not buying into the scam anymore if I can help it. When the GOP starts to act like they mean business about anything, then I'll pay more attention. This is all a dog and pony show.