What’s next? Asking people to, à la the Roman Empire, acknowledge the leader as a god? We could thus wonder with news that a former Department of Justice prosecutor, Glenn Kirschner, is mounting a campaign to compel “every business in America” to take a pledge stating that the “2020 presidential election was free and fair, and produced accurate, reliable results.”
Yes, and “boys” claiming girlhood have always been girls — and we’ve “always been at war with Eastasia.”
As for Kirschner’s “1984 is an instruction manual” endeavor,” any “American business refusing to take this pledge, regardless of their own personal beliefs, will presumably be subjected to the cancel mob,” writes Legal Insurrection.
This would likely please the far-left-wing Huffington Post, which reported on this story’s details March 20 in “‘Democracy Pledge’ Aims To Put Businesses On The Spot Over Trump’s Election Lie.” The site wrote:
A former federal prosecutor has launched a campaign to press American businesses to openly reject the core assertion that former President Donald Trump and many in his party continue to make, that the 2020 election was somehow illegitimate.
“The 2020 presidential election was free and fair, and produced accurate, reliable results,” reads the explanation behind the “Democracy Pledge” that Glenn Kirschner hopes to put before “every company in the country” in the coming months. “Those who sought to undermine or otherwise refused to acknowledge these results, share responsibility for the civil unrest after the election, culminating in violence at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”
The pledge includes a declaration of “valuing, affirming and supporting democracy,” and of affirming “that the election of Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Harris was free, fair and legitimate.”
The final piece asks companies to “not support, donate to or endorse politicians, political campaigns or political action committees that promoted false conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 presidential elections (or otherwise acted in ways contrary to a representative democracy).”
“What we’re trying to do is force companies’ hands so they can’t be agnostic,” Kirschner said.
Hmm, “can’t be agnostic.” My, why does this sound an awful lot like a religion?
(That is, a false religion. Good religion is good; bad religion is bad.)
Interestingly, the world’s Kirschners have nothing to say about megalomaniacal Stacey Abrams, who still refuses to concede her 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election loss to Republican Brian Kemp.
Moreover, after passionately stating in a 2016 presidential debate with Trump that questioning our election integrity is “denigrating…our democracy” (video below), Hillary Clinton began “denigrating” our republic right and left (but mostly left) upon losing to Trump.
In fact, Clinton also said, in 2019, that Trump “knows he’s an illegitimate president” (video below; relevant portion begins at 1:01).
What’s more, she said just in October of last year that the 2016 election was “not on the level” and that we “still don’t know what really happened” (answer: You lost, Hill).
In addition, she stated in August 2020 that “Joe Biden should not concede” the election “under any circumstances.”
“I think this is going to drag out,” she explained, “and eventually I do believe he will win if we don’t give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is.” Well, they sure were.
Leftists still are relentless, too, hence Kirschner’s “pledge.” And the effort tips their hand: If they really believed the 2020 election was fair and accurate, they’d join those seeking to confirm the results instead of avoiding scrutiny as a vampire does a cross.
In truth, however, the election wasn’t just stolen — it was seized via the jump-the-shark version of vote fraud. For believing that Biden legitimately won requires us to “accept a perfect storm of implausible anomalies and brazen irregularities,” pointed out The American Spectator in November. As the publication summed up:
In the end, to accept Joe Biden as our legitimate Chief Executive, we must believe the voters hammered the Democrats in congressional, state, and local elections, yet decided to elect the “leader” of their party president. We must believe that he dramatically underperformed among minority voters, yet received 10 million more votes than Barack Obama. We must believe that virtually all of the reliable election bellwethers were wrong. We must believe that all of the elections in the swing states were conducted honestly and that the Venezuelan software used to tabulate the votes was secure. All of this beggars belief. Joe Biden may be inaugurated in January, but he certainly wasn’t elected president.
But just as an outrageously soiled wall requires more paint to obscure the filth, major corruption can only be thoroughly covered up if everyone supports the illusion and mouths the big lie.
So just say it: Our elections are fair. Our elections have always been fair. Our elections always will be fair.
That is, unless and until the leftists happen to lose once again.
