It’s now clear that Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States. There are many who believe he stole the election, but then post-election allegations of corruption are commonplace. There are those who believe George W. Bush stole the 2000 election, which was decided by a Supreme Court whose majority was selected by Republican presidents. Some Democrats called it a Republican coup. John F. Kennedy won his election against Richard Nixon by what many charged was the graveyard vote in Chicago. I can name many more, valid or not. As Ecclesiastes says, there is nothing new under heaven. The only difference is in our memories. We forget what was and believe that nothing so terrible ever existed before. Yeah, it did. John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson are still duking it out in the afterlife over who stole the election of 1824. I am pretty sure it was rigged. The country survives corruption and the claim of corruption all the time. Perhaps the illusion that the battle is unprecedented moves us along. I find it charming that we can think this is the time that tries men’s souls. Our trials may try our sense of perspective, but […]
