{"id":1087,"date":"2026-06-10T15:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:41:52","slug":"democracy-died-in-california-not-quite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Democracy died in California? Not quite…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There can be only one reason not to count votes on a single election day: fraud. Allowing votes to be accepted and \u201ccounted\u201d for days, or, as in California, months after election day, enables one essential Democrat cheating tactic: Democrats get to know the total of Republican votes, so they know how many Democrat votes they\u2019ll have to manufacture to win.\u00a0<\/p>

Read more Liberating the Inuit<\/a><\/p>\n

This is compounded by ballot harvesting, ballot drop boxes, and mail-in ballots sent to everyone, including the dead, illegal aliens, and people who haven\u2019t lived in the state for years. Accepting those ballots prior to election day allows Democrats not only to accept and count illegal ballots, but to suppress Republican ballots. Ballots destroyed and never counted can\u2019t be discovered in audits, which they violently resist. Add in allowing anyone to register to vote with just about anything with someone\u2019s name on it, and you have an anti-Republican\u2014as in our constitutional republic\u2014single-party state.<\/p>\n

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The invaluable Victor David Hanson tells us: \u201cDemocracy is dying in California.\u201d Actually, it\u2019s not, but let\u2019s see what VDH has to say first:<\/p>\n

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California, as\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0seeing through the lenses of the Los Angeles mayoral race, is a dysfunctional state. The Democrats talk a lot about democracy dying in darkness. Democracy is dying in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, what do I mean by that?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

When you look at the LA mayoral race, you start to see a\u00a0familiar pattern\u00a0that all of us who live in California have noticed in state Assembly, state Senate races, and congressional races, and we saw it on the national scale as well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But in California, what happens is a conservative candidate will take a lead or finish ahead on election day, and then, almost with a\u00a0smirk, the Democrat opponent counts on ballots, mailed-in ballots that start to appear a week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks after the actual election deadline, and they are at ratios of 5-to-1, 10-to-1, 20-to-1.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See what I mean? Once you know precisely how many votes you need to win, it\u2019s easy to suppress additional Republican votes and \u201cfind\u201d as many Democrat votes as necessary. That\u2019s why subsequent tranches of tens of thousands of ballots contain not a single Republican vote.<\/p>\n

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And then the Democrat candidate that we thought lost\u00a0actually wins. And then if you allege that something\u2019s wrong, you\u2019re called a conspiratorial nut or an election denier.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Spencer Pratt was ahead by seven points, and Ms. [Nithya] Raman had already given a concession speech.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And now\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a week after the\u00a0polls closed, and suddenly these troves started appearing all week, in which it\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a02-to-1. She was the third candidate when the election day tallies had begun, and we had about 50% to 60% of the vote. She was well behind Spencer Pratt and well, well behind Karen Bass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Suddenly, these ballots started coming in, and they were overwhelmingly for the third candidate, Raman.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Read more Massie libels Israel<\/a><\/p>\n

And now, as\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0speaking, suddenly\u00a0Spencer Pratt lost his lead\u00a0that he had\u00a0established\u00a0and\u00a0apparently everybody\u00a0thought he had won.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0a familiar pattern.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

VDH is, as always, insightful, but in this case he\u2019s technically wrong. California isn\u2019t killing Democracy. It\u2019s celebrating it in all its despotic, tribal, corrupt, majority-rules wonder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Founders rejected direct democracy because they knew it was mob rule where 50.0000001% get their way and can do to the minority whatever they please: take their property, liberty, even their life. That\u2019s why Democrats constantly refer to \u201cour democracy\u201d\u2014a tyranny of the majority–and never our constitutional, representative republic as established in Article IV, section 4 of the Constitution:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The term \u201cdemocracy\u201d appears nowhere in the Constitution. That was no accidental omission by the Founders, but\u00a0their carefully considered attempt to prevent totalitarian abominations like California and other blue states and their election fraud machines. They understood human nature exceedingly well and did their best to prevent its worst excesses. Until recently, their governance invention largely succeeded.<\/p>\n

Our republican government, if followed, guarantees individual liberty. It doesn\u2019t matter which party is in power, because their powers are limited, unless \u201cour democracy\u201d prevails and single-party states with corrupt executive, legislative, and judicial branches are allowed to ignore and violate the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Franklin said the Founders gave us a republic \u201cif you can keep it.\u201d It\u2019s lost in California. Now we see if we can stop the spread of that cancer and keep it for the entire nation. The constitutional tools are there if we have the will and courage to do what\u2019s necessary to use them.<\/p>\n

Become a subscriber and get our weekly Friday newsletter with unique content from our editors.\u00a0These essays alone are worth\u00a0<\/em>the cost of the subscription.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is<\/em>\u00a0Stately McDaniel Manor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>

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