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Barack Obama’s Presidency: Implications for American Society

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PUBLISHED IN PRAVDA 4.27.2009

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blinds the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more than Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more than happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo-Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

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The Risks and Inaccuracies of Mail-in Ballots: A 2020 Election Review

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By way of an example, let me help you reconsider mail-in ballots for elections. I received in the mail a letter from the unemployment office in Illinois. I opened it and there was a check in the envelope. But strangely enough the name didn’t immediately register, but it was a female and was clearly labeled with my address. I wasn’t exactly sure what to do with the check. But after a few minutes thinking about the check and the name, it suddenly dawned on me who it was. It was the woman I had bought my home from 19 years prior. YES, 19 years prior she lived there, and somehow the State records still had her at my address. IMAGINE HOW STUNNED I WAS. It clearly shows that the mailing addresses used by various department of government have serious deficiencies. Now extrapolate that to a national election. How many ballots were incorrectly sent to the wrong person?

So now that brings me to the 2020 elections, where the federal government and in particular Democrats unjustifiably pushed mail-in ballots rather allowing voting on a particular day like has been the tradition for centuries. The rationale was that due to the pandemic, it was not safe to have large groups of people assembling to vote.

Well, we now know that was absurd. COVID is not as contagious as once thought and the impact of getting COVID is most severe for those individuals with co-morbidities or in other words other diseases affecting their immune system.

There are several issues with mail-in ballots particularly the way it was handled in 2020. First many of the ballots were sent out before the debates between presidential candidates. Doing this deprives voters of having a meaningful knowledge base to cast a vote. Second, from my simple example one clearly sees there are accuracy issues that may have impacted the election, but who knows. The database of names and addresses used by government are not the most reliable because the government doesn’t have to rely on them to earn a living. Advertising agencies and marketing companies make it their living ensuring the accuracy of the list of addresses where clients send direct mail. And since direct mail has less than a 1% success rate, wasted mailings to invalid addresses only makes it even more costly.

In summation, mail-in ballots are ripe for abuse and illegitimate outcomes. I am not in favor of widespread mail-in ballots, and further would not allow ballots to be sent out until voters had the knowledge they needed to make an informed decision.