Elections Matter

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Yes, I know. This dirty business of elections is just what Bismarck meant when he spoke of sausage making and how you’ll never want to eat one again once you see how they’re made.

But elections do matter.

Consider what just didn’t happen in Virginia, because Glenn Youngkin was elected governor. Youngkin may not be Thomas Jefferson – or even Rand Paul – but he just vetoed 30 (not a typo) “gun control” bills that had been put forward by the Leftists who control the state legislature, who wanted to control people’s right to defend themselves by criminalizing it. If the bills these Leftists put forward had been signed into law, it would have become criminal to possess many kinds of guns as well as  illegal to buy or sell “high capacity” magazines, among other things. It would have become a criminal offense to carry a gun in many of the public places where it is currently legal – such as restaurants where alcohol is served. Even if the person isn’t drinking.

Even if the person already possesses a concealed carry permit.

None of these bills will become law – because of Youngkin. More finely, because Youngkin rather than his Leftist opponent in the last election, the Clinton apparatchik Terry McAuliffe, was elected. Had the latter won the election, he would almost certainly have not only signed into law every one of those bills but proposed even more laws transforming citizens into criminals for nothing more than possessing the means of defending themselves.

Elections matter.

This is not to say elections are good – much less perfect.

Morally speaking, it is despicable and appalling that anyone’s rights can be voted away. It renders the concept of “rights” a transitory and insecure thing rather than an inviolate thing, as a right ought to be.

It either is – or it is not.

Subjecting anyone’s rights to a vote every so often is like having them live at the foot of a leaky dam, leaving them in perpetual dread that tomorrow will be the day the dam bursts and washes away their life along with everything they’ve spent their life life working for. No one should ever be put in this position. More finely, no one should ever be in the position of having the legal power to vote to have the state take away anything from anyone.

Nor control him a priori in any way. Meaning, leave him be unless he’s actually done something that resulted in a tangible harm to another person or another person’s property. That – and that alone – is the sole exigency endowing government action with moral legitimacy. Anything beyond that is by definition some form of thuggery made “legal” – by people who voted for it.

If that is allowed – if that is considered acceptable – then it is inevitable that civilization itself will be eventually be voted into oblivion, because it is impossible to limit abuse of people’s rights once a little abuse is accepted.

But that doesn’t mean voting isn’t a necessary exigency. That it isn’t justifiable, morally – as a defensive measure. Just the same as you have the right to try to block a punch – and punch back – when a punch is thrown at you. Voting for a Youngkin to stop a McAuliffe – in order to block Leftists such as those who control the legislature of Virginia – has blocked the Leftists (at least for now) who want to take away people’s rights in the state of Virginia and make it a criminal offense to exercise them.

I’d say that election mattered.

Wouldn’t you?

So also the last presidential election. The Orange Man is obviously not Thomas Jefferson – but the thing that was voted into office (so we are told – and not permitted to question) is doing a fair job of channeling Stalin, via the by-now-obvious suppression and even persecution of dissent, which will transition into a criminal act if that thing is voted into office again. The thing says it will be so, openly. To not clap with gusto – as per the audience of fearful apparatchiks at a Party Conference where Stalin was orating – being a threat to our democracy.

Yes, Orange Man “warp speeded” the mRNA drugs that didn’t “stop the spread” of anything – other than myocarditis and Bell’s Palsy – and served as the willing poodle of the drug cartels pushing these drugs. Very bad. But would it have been worse if he hadn’t been elected?

Would she have been any better?

What would the Supreme Court look like today had she been elected, then? Would the justices (sic) selected by that thing have ruled in favor of the granting power to unelected state bureaucrats – to Leftists – to summarily remove people they don’t want us to be able to vote for off the ballot? Would Roe have been repealed – and the matter remanded to the states?

Yes, I know.

Take the guns now, due process later. Bumpstocks. And many other things besides.

But these and worse things are assured to come if not thwarted by contrary votes. It is thus a horrible but necessary thing to vote in opposition to such things – assuming you prefer that the horrible things be thwarted, at least somewhat.

At least for now.

Which – though far from a reversal – does at least buy some time and if you don’t think that’s worth anything, ask a besieged commander who withdraws to a more defensible position in order to buy time to regroup and mount an eventual counter-attack. Or at least, hold the enemy in check.

So, yes – certainly – voting is distasteful and even nauseating. It is understandable that a moral person wants no part of it. But a moral person also wants no part of a fight he didn’t ask for – and once he’s forced into it, he damned well better fight using any tool or tactic he can avail himself of.

Else he will lose the fight for sure.

And perhaps more than just that.

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