By Brian T. Kennedy
TomKlingenstein.com
Editor’s Note:
A war is a struggle for control — control of a nation, its resources, its land, its government. This is just as true in a cold civil war as it is in a hot war. In a cold civil war like ours, however, the main theaters of conflict are political and cultural rather than military. Chief among these in recent years has been the electoral system, where partisans of the group quota regime employ any and all tactics to gain an advantage over their enemies.
Brian Kennedy proposes that their success in this theater may open the way for an even greater threat: foreign interference in a dramatically weakened U.S. election process. This essay was originally published in The American Mind under the title “The Diminishing Likelihood of a Fair Election.”
At no time during the Cold War with the Soviet Union was it imagined that the Russians could manipulate a United States presidential election in favor of their preferred candidate. Hollywood’s portrayal of a “Manchurian Candidate” aside, American elections were held in person, using paper ballots, counted by human beings, with other human beings watching them. And, however vicious and corrupt the normal partisan interplay of American politics may have been, this practice insured that a fair enough election could be held. Today that is no longer the case.
