Since early May of this year — 2020, the year of the Covid-19 pandemic — daily protests have been organized by left wing groups in major American cities with attendee numbers reaching up to the tens of thousands.
To date (today being the 27th of September , around 120 days after) not 1 week has gone by without a protest being declared to a riot. Not 1 week gone by without cities and businesses being put on fire and civilians and LEOs losing their life as a direct cause of these events.
Cities and States that are governed by Democrat Mayors and Governors have rarely seen restrictions put on these events, despite the undeniable heightened risk of infection (the same risk they’ve used as a reason to impose prolonged economic shutdowns) and the damages they caused.
They have legitimized these actions by arguing that they pertain to the democratic rights of US citizens that are protected by the constitution (never mind they openly do restrict other liberties of US citizens that are protected by the constitution).
Disregarding the hypocrisy nonetheless, this is a valid argument if it’s not possible to establish a direct link between the protests and the violence taking place, largely in the evening and at night, most frequently after a protest.
It is the year 2020, a year of election. The most polarized American election in modern history, happening on the 3rd of November. Concerns about the process of voting during a pandemic were raised early in the year.
Since then, Democrat politicians have pushed measures (and even passed them where they can, looking at you Pennsylvania) to allow Mail-In voting as a valid means of casting one’s ballot.
Mail-In voting — in contrast to Absentee voting, where voters need request the ballot and provide a reason for voting in such a manner — refers to the general sending out of ballots to people and addresses found on voting lists, which may or may not be maintained and may or may not contain people who are no longer allowed (or are able) to vote anymore.
Moreover, the measures pushed in support of the widespread use of this technique have also included the loosening on the rules for who is allowed to carry these ballots.
The reason, the only one, that advocates of Mail-In voting cite is that of protecting the health of people, such that they mustn’t go out and put themselves at risk. (To be clear, if one were to be an individual in a high-risk group it would be possible, as always, to request an absentee ballot without the enactment of any new legislation)
This is a Venn diagram of 1. people who support Mail-In voting and 2. people that support the daily protests.
Protesters and defenders of the protests argue it is well worth risking their health (and therefore everybody’s health, ahem, virus) by gathering daily for what is 4 months now, even when it frequently leads to the destruction of people’s property and life, in order to make use of their constitutionally protected rights.
They also argue it isn’t worth going out 1 day for less than an hour to make use of their other constitutionally protected right, and would rather experiment with an untrustworthy method of voting that hasn’t been used at this scale before during the most polarized election in modern history.
So why do Democrats, who allow (and encourage) the daily protests and refuse to suppress the riots, want Mail-In voting so much?
I don’t know. But this guy has a theory.
