Can America Beat a Crooked Dealer?

Imagine you are on vacation and one night you stay in a hotel with a glitzy casino imploring travelers like you to come in and kill some time by playing a friendly game of poker.

Unfortunately, however, you have no way of knowing beforehand that the casino is sleazy, and a few hours later, your clock has been cleaned by a crooked dealer who, at the end of the evening, sends you on your way … broke.

Upset, before leaving that town, you look into the matter and are fortunate enough to uncover irrefutable proof that the dealer is a crook. Like all the dealers in that casino, he is talented at cheating at cards in every conceivable way with only one goal in mind: to take all the money he can from gullible travelers just like you. But you yourself are soon confused when confronted by another fact. Mysteriously, the judge in that town won’t even afford you a hearing to allow you to shed any light on the evidence of the dealer’s corruption and obtain justice. Unbeknownst to you, that is because the judge—like the dealer—is also on the take for a percentage of the sleazy casino’s winnings stolen from unfortunate—i.e. deplorable—slobs like you.

Under these circumstances, on your next vacation, would you EVER even dream of a Plan A that entailed your return to that casino to play another game of poker with the same dealer based on the misguided view that surely even a crooked dealer wouldn’t have the audacity to try to cheat you twice? Or would you think it more prudent to start working now on a Plan B? For instance, a plan that would effectively allow you to uproot the corruption you have already encountered once at its source, and thereby hopefully prevent that casino’s ability to ever use crooked dealers to cheat anyone again? 

If you are like most thinking folks, you will surely agree that Plan A would clearly be a fool’s errand. But, inexplicably, that seems to be the strategy many patriots are relying on to fix our country—i.e. to restore the greatness of America via the 2024 elections.

Many patriotic Americans today seem to be operating on a belief that, just because the democrats cheated before in 2020 and 2022, surely they wouldn’t have the audacity of attempting to do it again in 2024. It is a strategy based on the errant conviction that all that will be required is to beat these corrupt dealers at their own game. All patriots have to do is play harder to win by doing everything they can to get out the vote while letting the corrupt election officials know that this time around, patriots will be watching everything they do more closely than they ever did before!

In fact, is that not the exact strategy that was employed by Kari Lake’s camp in Arizona in 2022? Her experience alone should cause all such patriots to carefully reflect now—not later—on how well that strategy worked out for her to determine if such a strategy is likely to succeed any better in the elections next year.

In Ms. Lake’s case, it was clear that the “crooked election dealers” she dealt with in Arizona demonstrated for all the world to see that they didn’t really care if anyone even saw the corruption that led them to “victory.” One reason may have been that they knew all the while that many, if not most, of the judges in Arizona were as much on the take as they were, and so, in the end, were likely to do whatever was necessary to shield the corrupt from any accountability. How? If nothing else, by misusing their judicial powers to delay and obfuscate  any litigation that might arise from Ms. Lake’s camp into oblivion—i.e. by preventing the evidence of their collective corruption from ever seeing the light of day prior to that point when the passage of time eventually renders it irrelevant in the mind of the public. All while those same judges penalize the innocent victims of their corruption by imposing financially debilitating sanctions upon them for their even trying to expose the corruption and obtain justice.

Will it be any different in 2024?

Not likely … and why should it? Especially since the election corruption that exists now across America has become all but institutionalized by its demonstrable success in the last two election cycles … and those presently in power—i.e. the beneficiaries of that corruption—know it. And more importantly, they also know that for them to relinquish their present power to a candidate like a President Trump or a Kari Lake could—or, at the very least, should—place many of them in line to be fitted for a hangman’s noose. Which, of course, would be the remedy proscribed by the Constitution for the treason they have already committed in the last several years to effectively overthrow our Constitutional republic and place in its stead the embryonic form of tyranny that presently appears to be metastasizing throughout our government from somewhere in the basement of the White House.

All of which should inform patriots today to set aside any delusions we may have about beating the “crooked dealer” in 2024 pursuant to Plan A and make the effort today to come up with a Plan B to remove the corruption NOW … in the now desperate hope that it’s not already too late to make America great again.

And if that is not feasible in the minds of most patriots, they may want to ask themselves this: what will be their Plan C if three weeks following election day in 2024 the mainstream media once again announces that, after all the mail-in ballots have been counted, it is confirmed that pResident Biden, once again, has defeated President Trump and will have four more years to ‘finish what he started’?

This next time around, will patriots again just accept that to be the truth, and chalk up the necessarily consequent demise of America to just be the result of the democratic process? Or will they want to do something else to defend the Constitution against any enemies … even be they domestic? And, if so, what exactly would that have to look like if it is to have any chance of success?

Odd that it is questions like this that we are being drawn by the corrupt among us into having to answer at this point in our nation’s history, no? But that’s what happens to a people who are too lazy to keep such treasonous barbarians from storming the gates of our culture to corrupt not only our elections, but also our institutions and even our system of justice.

Cliff Nichols is the author of A Barrister’s Tales, the curator of The American Landscape and the drafter of The Declaration of Liberty. 

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