People Rigging Election
Roundly mock man for claiming election is rigged.
In ancapistan, if you have no property, you have no rights
Ancaps often declare, "All rights are property rights." I was thinking about this the other day, in the context of running into libertarians online who insisted that libertarianism supports "the freedom of movement," and realized that this principle actually entails that people without property have no rights at all, let alone any right to "freedom of movement." Of course, immediately, any ancap readers still left here are going to say, "Wait a second! Everyone owns his own body! And so everyone at least has the right to not have his body interfered with." Well, that is true... except that in ancapistan, one has no right to any place to put that body, except if one owns property, or has the permission of at least one property owner to place that body on her land. So, if one is landless and penniless, one had sure better hope that there are kindly disposed property owners aligned in a corridor from wherever one happens to be to wherever the...
Well, Trump and Clinton are both claiming the election is rigged, and for the same reason (so the one who loses has something to blame it on).
ReplyDeleteHer claim is a little more subtle than his -- and a lot more dangerous, because she's blaming the rigging on a foreign power.
"Rigged" to me here means "set up so that no one out side the ruling elite can win."
DeleteAnd it only takes manipulation of public opinion to rig it that way.
It is hard to break into these parties, yes!? And they even rig the game for themselves and their own, in a myriad of ways! But I don't think the election is being thrown at a Post Office in Columbus Ohio! Hahahaha
ReplyDeleteSort of begging the question? Who is doing the rigging and how is it being done and towards what ends?
ReplyDeleteI think you mean "raising the question."
DeleteBut...
"Who is doing the rigging..."
The ruling elite.
"how is it being done"
Manipulating public opinion.
"towards what ends?"
Maintaining their rule.
To be fair, I don't see the practice of super delegates in DNC as rigging.
ReplyDeleteThe Democratic Party is a private organization that can nominate whomever it wants, whether or not they win the primaries or not. If people don't like it, they can run for another party.
Gene, Trump is claiming more than that. He's not just talking about the media/elites manipulating public opinion. He's also talking about widespread voted fraud. That claim is what attracting so much derision. There is no reason to think that we have a significant voter fraud problem in this country.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with that notion is that both major party candidates are members in good standing of the ruling elite; a win by either one would ensure continued maintenance of that elite's rule. Looks more like a final split between the two factions of the elite, an end to their 130-year "it's all good as long as ONE of us wins" bargain.
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