{"id":15247,"date":"2020-11-05T10:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=15247"},"modified":"2020-11-06T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T21:52:21","slug":"post-election-uplift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/05\/post-election-uplift\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Election Uplift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best quote for this week?  Lily Tomlin said, &#8220;No matter how cynical you get, it is not enough to keep up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deceiving citizens violates voting rights as much as barring people from polling places.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yY2kPoOfXt\">https:\/\/t.co\/yY2kPoOfXt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324830834344558625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This post-election vote counting is like extra innings of a baseball playoff game between two teams that both committed endless unforced errors.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324094951093800960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nothing happens after Election Day to compel winning politicians to give  a damn about the Constitution. As Senator Bob Kerrey explained, \u201cThe problem is, the second your hand comes off the Bible, you become an asshole.\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gGXyUTWNFD\">https:\/\/t.co\/gGXyUTWNFD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324804618904346626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many pundits and professors presume that a Biden victory will magically re-legitimize the American political system. But almost all the problems of recent years will continue or intensify. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VIqWb5XECf\">https:\/\/t.co\/VIqWb5XECf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324786185869447168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elections usually only reveal comparative contempt for competing professional politicians. The only \u201cmandate\u201d conferred by \u201clesser evil\u201d votes is for the winning politician to do less evil.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324382386164027399?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How many anti-Trump votes were spurred by the Deep State&#39;s non-stop political conniving since 2016?  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZC1oYv0oIi\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZC1oYv0oIi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324420853086539778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Previously, election results were often only a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions. Now they include all the delusions and dreads triggered in the prior 60 days, too.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324382932736352257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The more weight that is placed on voting levers, the more likely that the entire political system collapses. People do not acquiesce to contested votes when the winner becomes an elective dictator.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1323999608431878145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vote counts cannot legitimize an Elective Dictator who violates the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324042489901232128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If Biden wins and imposes a national lockdown, Americans will too late learn that they voted for a Cage Keeper-in-Chief.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324359016202620930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#39;s someone who has blind trust in &quot;smart lockdowns.&quot; More likely that the U.S. Constitution will be Covid Roadkill  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vTSEmOsKYW\">https:\/\/t.co\/vTSEmOsKYW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xZPe6uYWlG\">https:\/\/t.co\/xZPe6uYWlG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324361070346121216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will Biden win after conducting the most fearmongering presidential campaign of modern times? As Coleridge warned in 1830, \u201cIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324356106186010624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is it too late to demand a retraction from all the people &amp; publications who accused me of cynicism since my hitchhiking days? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jhpSjOPcAH\">pic.twitter.com\/jhpSjOPcAH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324090675793723393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">20 Years Ago Today: &quot;Voting has changed from a process by which the citizen controls the government to a ritual that consecrates government\u2019s control of the people.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u9004N1wco\">https:\/\/t.co\/u9004N1wco<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324086859807543298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My Election Day 2000 Oped: &quot;What does a vote mean? Whatever a winning politician says it means. Citizens have almost no control over their rulers after Election Day.&quot;  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u9004N1wco\">https:\/\/t.co\/u9004N1wco<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324072201042173955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My 7\/28\/20 oped: &quot;America could soon see a hundred-times worse replay of the Florida presidential balloting 20 years ago in the Bush-Gore showdown&#8230;  that could minimize support for whoever is designated the next president.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VIqWb5XECf\">https:\/\/t.co\/VIqWb5XECf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324032520502083586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is it too soon to proclaim cynicism the victor of the 2020 election? &quot;Cynicism can be pro-freedom, spurring resistance rather than resignation&#8230;.  The more cynical Americans become, the less power politicians can seize.&quot;  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0aitOpHGmI\">https:\/\/t.co\/0aitOpHGmI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1323992797700116481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Winning politicians often enjoy a honeymoon after Election Day, but neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden deserve any honeymoon from cynicism. \u201cThink well of your masters\u201d will be the death of democracy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0aitOpHGmI\">https:\/\/t.co\/0aitOpHGmI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1324018390680379394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My 7\/28\/20 oped: &quot;The American political system may be on the eve of its worst legitimacy crisis since the Civil War. Early warning signals indicate that many states could suffer catastrophic failures in counting votes in November.&quot;  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VIqWb5XECf\">https:\/\/t.co\/VIqWb5XECf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1323991861049044992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m old enough to recall when the media was less dishonest than the political candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/1323639034363760643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best quote for this week? 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