Attacking The Legitimacy Of Our Elections Is An Attack On The Very Foundations Of Our Democracy!

The American system of free and fair elections is under attack. Donald Trump has done the unspeakable. Donald has attacked the very foundations of our nation’s Democracy. His shocking and unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud and media bias are an affront to the very foundations of our democracy that our founding fathers fought and died for.

So, Donald Trump, I am speaking directly to you, personally. This is an open letter yo you, Donald Trump.

Please try to listen, and pay attention, just this one time.

The American elections and peaceful transfer of power are considered the “Gold Standard” around the world, as well as they should be.

Let’s start from the very beginning and clarify a few facts.

The United States of America is not a true democracy in the strict sense of the word. The United States as set up and ratified by our founding fathers in 1787 is actually what is known as a “Constitutional Republic”.

Constitutional means that the government is bound by a constitution. The United States has a constitutional form of government.

A republic is a country governed by elected representatives. The United States is a republic.

This is why our free and fair elections, as well as the peaceful transfer of power, is so critically important, as we the people elect the politicians who are to represent us in all levels of Government.

This article is not about you, Donald Trump and your lies and bizarre statements. Obviously, you say this nonsense to fire up your misguided base.

And, frankly, I am sick and tired of writing about you. Every election cycle we have politicians running smear campaigns. This is nothing new.

Thomas Jefferson, was a well-known Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third President of the United States. When Jefferson was running for President a smear campaign was run against him calling him a hermaphrodite. By today’s standards that smear campaign was actually kind of quaint.

What I am talking about here is your attack upon the very foundations of our electoral process. The legitimacy of our free and fair elections is critical not only to the voters but to the entire legitimacy of the United States Government.

Here is the video of the exchange that I am talking about. This exchange occurred near the end of the third and final Presidental debate, with roughly three weeks to go until the general election…..

There are two main factors at play here that I want to explore.

First, {1} you have been saying for weeks that the election is rigged against you. You have stated on multiple occasions that there are millions of people registered to vote that should not be allowed to vote.

Also, {2} You claim that the Democrats will be bringing in busloads of illegal immigrants from State to State to vote illegally.

Let’s dispense with the second part {2} of your allegations right off the bat. No, Donald, the Democrats will not  be bussing in busloads of illegal immigrants from State to State to vote illegally. This has never occurred and never will. The reason is because of the first part of your ludicrous accusations.

I have personally voted in every single general election since 1976. I have voted in four States in my lifetime, beginning in California, then Connecticut, then Massachusetts, and now Florida.

The process was always the same. First, I had to register to vote. My identity, Social Security number and address was verified. I was then issued a voter registration card by mail.

I arrived at the polling place and stood in line at the registration table. I gave them my name and address which was checked against a list that they already had. Once I was verified that I was at the proper polling place and my name was on the list, I was given a ballot to vote.

The important thing here was my name was on their voter registration list. Once I arrived to vote, my name was checked off, so it would be literally impossible for anyone else to come along and use my name to vote illegally.

The most important fact to remember is that in modern times there have been exactly 31 cases of voter fraud that have been verified by the Justice Department out of hundreds of millions of votes cast. 31 cases total.

First of all, the United States federal government does not run the elections. The States run the elections, all fifty of them. But when you are running for President of the United States, I would have thought that you would have known this.

In order to pull off some sort of wide-spread vote rigging as you have suggested, it would take literally  thousands of people, both Republicans as well as Democrats working together in multiple States in some sort of coordinated effort to even begin to try to pull something like this off.

Republicans and Democrats can’t even agree on what time it is, so I find this accusation of yours to have a probability of less than zero.

Besides, let’s look at the facts. When you, Donald Trump, lost the Iowa caucuses during the primaries, he said the vote was rigged. When you lost the Wisconsin primaries, you said the vote was rigged. Hell, you even said that the vote was rigged when you didn’t win an Emmy for The Apprentice, three years in a row. Are you starting to see a pattern here?

Evidently, in your  mind, if you lose, it is somehow rigged against you.

The other thing that Donald Trump complains about all the time is that the media is biased against him, and they are poisoning the minds of voters against him.

No Donald, the media is not biased aginst you!

The only reason that the media is against you, is because of your own self-inflicted wounds. I’me getting to this in just a second.

It is true that there are some media outlets that are leaning left of center and others that are right of center. Some media internet media outlets just make stuff up.

First of all ever since you started running, at your rallies you point to the media covering your events and call them; liars, tell the truth, and call them the crooked media, and a whole lot more. Believe me, when I say, this is not a good way to win friends and influence in the media.

Secondly, you obviously don’t understand the media. The media are like small children that become fixated on a small shiny object. You regularly become that small shiny object because of the outrageous things that you continue to say.

Even when you are having a pretty good day, or week and there is even something that comes up about your opponent, You can’t help yourself, but to say or do something that is so outrageous that whatever your opponent did becomes lost in all the noise of your own making.

For some reason, you insist on always being that bright shiny object, even when it’s to your own detriment.

Besides the media doesn’t go to the polls and vote, people do. So, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

But, now with all the outrageous lies, half truths and other bullshit that comes out of your mouth, you have really gone too far.

When you started questioning the integrity of our elections, and the fact that you insinuated that you would not support the outcome, and the ultimate will of the people, you went way, way, way, too far.

The United States elections and the peaceful transfer of power are sacred not only to the American people but to the entire free world. Every losing candidate in the history of our nation (except for during the American Civil War) has conceded to the winning candidate for President.

The losing candidate’s concession to the winning candidate is what brings the American people together and guarantees a peaceful transfer of power. This is what begins the healing process in what is often a very divisive election cycle. In the end, we are all still Americans. The President of the United States is tasked with representing ALL of us whether we personally voted for them or  not.

Donald trump threatens the very fabric of American society by even insinuating that our elections are not free and fair.

As Americans we may not agree on everything, But, the one thing that we all agree upon is that our elections are free and fair, And, the peaceful transfer of power is our most important constitutional duty.

In order to remain a free society, and fully live up to the ideals that our founding fathers fought and died for, we have to trust and believe in our free and fair elections, as well as the peaceful transfer of power, Without that, we have nothing.

As a final thought, Donald. If the founding fathers were alive today, they would line up to punch you in the face. Just saying……

As Always,

I  Am,

Tom Dye, The Safety Guy