Posted on 10/19/2016 6:32:48 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Trump's 'Rigging' Allegations: Why Democracy Depends on Graceful Losers
Democracy Depends on the Consent of the Losers
What happens if Donald Trump is defeated?
Donald Trump likes to sort the world into winners and losers, which isn’t a bad way of thinking about democracy. Winners and losers of elections have essential responsibilities in functioning democracies. Winners do not exact revenge on their opponent by, say, abusing the powers of their office and jailing that opponent, as the Republican candidate threatened to do at the second presidential debate. Losers do not refuse to accept the results of a vote judged free and fair by a country’s governing institutions.
Yet the Republican candidate has spent the past week—really, much of the general election—strongly suggesting that he will not accept a loss to Hillary Clinton. He has repeatedly claimed that “Crooked Hillary” is “rigging” the election with help from the media and a global network of power brokers. The rigging, he says with certainty but no compelling evidence, consists of the coordinated assassination of Trump’s character, as well as looming voter fraud. And the rigging will, in Trump’s telling, produce nothing less than the dissolution of the republic; the United States will be overrun by immigrants and ISIS. Trump’s message is that the election will be stolen from his supporters, as will the country. Many Trump supporters expect this outcome; roughly half aren’t confident that ballots will be accurately counted on Election Day.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
You know what the Democrats did? They threw a fit that burned down most of the Country in a little event called "The Civil War"
They would have this country burn if they could be Kings of the Ashes.
Let’s see if Uri Friedman is singing the same tune when The Donald is in the White House.
‘Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser!’
Come back to this headline after Trump wins and leftists riots.
The excuse making will be extraordinary. They’ll, of course, blame Trump and say it’s the duty of a leftist to express outrage.
Yep - this thread is worth a bookmark. Might be fun to revisit the article next month.
If Trump wins, there is gonna be a LOT of revisiting and checking of who said/did what.
If hillary wins, meanwhile, we’ll all be ‘laughing it up’ in the gulag.
Yes, little Marco, Trump will certainly listen to your advice and advice from other losers like you, Jeb, Ted and the rest of the GOPe members.
Bump for later.
As has no doubt been pointed out, Donald Trump signed the pledge. The losers did to, but many of them did not honor their pledge. With the Democrats already fire bombing GOP sites, why should we expect more from them after Donald Trump wins the General Election?
Astounding.
Coming from a party whose philosophy is “when we win, lwe win, when we lose, we win.”
Coming from the party of “pen and phone” used to nullify mid-term election results that they don’t like.
Coming from a President who stood at a podium and declared that the last mid-term election really didn’t count because the turn out want as high as he wanted or, in other words, the only election that counts is the last one where they prevailed.
Coming from a party that declared Bush’s entire presidency illegitimate because of their Florida 2000 urban legend.
Coming from the party of Harry Reid who shut the Senate down the entire time he ran it.
Coming from a party that just got caught, red handed, on video, revealing their voter fraud scheme.
Coming from a party that has been caught red handed colluding with and coercing a compliant media that is no more than a propaganda wing.
Finally, coming from a party that actually got caught, red handed, rigging it’s primary election.
But you aren’t allowed to think or say the system is rigged. Our betters in the media and the elite want us to get our minds straight. Ignore that reality and turn on your inner Orwellian exercise.
Based on their behavior so far, Trump’s supporters have been much more orderly and law abiding than Democratic voters, so why should we expect anything different if Trump loses?
“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
- Declaration of Independence
The Federal Government no longer has my consent. They may have my obedience in the same way that an armed robber threatening overwhelming force can obtain temporary compliance, but they have no legitimacy. I owe them nothing beyond the specific actions that they can compel me to take, and that only when they threaten or use force. They are operating far outside the enumerated powers and far outside the Bill of Rights. To put it mildly, they are not on our side.
Obama To GOP: “I Won”
02/23/2009 05:12 am ET | Updated May 25, 2011
JONATHAN MARTIN & CAROL E. LEE Politico
President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who’s in charge of these negotiations. “I won,” Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
The exchange arose as top House and Senate Republicans expressed concern to the president about the amount of spending in the package. They also raised red flags about a refundable tax credit that returns money to those who don’t pay income taxes, the sources said.
“Let’s see if Uri Friedman is singing the same tune when The Donald is in the White House.”
Someone tell me, are there ANY decent Jews in the media today? They all appear to act like Hitler’s Handmaidens to me. Are their memories of the Holocaust that dim?
Yeah, really. If Trump wins it’s gonna take several weeks for the BLM riots to calm down.
The party of “challenge and recount until we’re ahead, then stop.”
Pic Of The Day…
Über classy anti-Trump protesters in Philly. 
Via: Weasel Zippers
I’m not sure that’s entirely fair. It’s not always immediately apparrent who’s Jewish, firstly, and, secondly, it’s more a matter of EVERYONE in media being a wacked out Lefty.
If Trump wins, it’s gonna take several weeks for EVERYBODY to calm down.
Lefties will be rioting, conservatives will be celebrating.
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