Why Reparations Will Never Work

By George Handlery

Reparations?

As global wealth grows, the wealth of productive societies expands at lightning speed. Thereby, the material luxury of modernized countries grows at a rate that would have been deemed to be science fiction a few decades ago. 

At the same time, the left-behind communities become aware of an exasperating condition. The cadence of their improvement is slow, so the gap widens that separates their attainment from that of the leading creators of progress. This is the case except for when equality through poverty is a chosen policy; the North Koreas stagnate as a matter of principle. 

The problem is that some experience only a slow rise of living standards, while other societies rise like rockets. Summing up, whilst for most of the world expectations and performance rise, there are laggards whose frustration grows. The demand that the losers be compensated expresses that sentiment.

As a rule, poverty is not caused by nature. However, its gifts to the lucky few can bankroll easy abundance. 

The observant discovers the roots of the discrepancy in wealth in man-made policies that are reflections of culture. Cultures can change, and the national character is not unalterable either. Even if bad policies can be replaced by good measures, the preferred instinctive response to the problem of backwardness tends to favor other remedies. It might be “human nature” or just a learned bad habit, to attribute shortcomings to the machinations of the agents of evil. Jews, capitalist, foreigners, heresy, and inventively imagined conspiracies are ingredients of well-selling snake medicine. These are popular, easily blamed enemies. It is simple to persuade the politically naïve that evil plotters cause the misery of decent folks that they fleece.

In most cases, secular religions arise to organize those convinced of having been robbed and artificially disadvantaged. 

Consequently, the modern era’s great “isms,” even if they point to different culprits, concur in one decisive matter. All of them, national socialism, international socialism, fascism, and “Third-Worldism” claim to struggle against the forces of malevolence that collude to impoverish and subjugate mankind. 

Once persuaded of this, it follows to the convert that the wicked must be combatted. Since the proof of the crime is the relative wealth of the impostors, this can be done by seizing their means through “nationalization” or outright looting. Those that direct this struggle are steeled by their belief that whatever battles the absolutely vile, becomes thereby a morally pure agent of redemption. Given the traits of the enemy, such a force can neither fail (“history is ours”) nor derail morally.

“History is on our side” and that the “Party/Leader is never wrong,” are cardinal features of modern mass movements. In a totalitarian manner, these intend to break with the past to bring about a “New Order.” These traits include a predatory commitment to redistribute the wealth built up in successful societies. Such an organization requires a strong leadership. It needs to convert its control of the culture into political power to create the “unity” the program presupposes.

We are living in an age in which a “guilt and atonement” culture prevails. It serves to explain missed modernization and the resulting discrepancy in the amount of well-being and rights enjoyed. The alleged victims of systemic disadvantage have become a well-organized and rewarded “profession.” Much of its power comes from lobbyists that are native to successful societies. 

This element is often described as “liberal” and it is recruited in the privileged classes that are the cultural critics of those that have created the economics of plenty. Unimpeded by borders, this educated but materially unproductive elite forms one of history’s rare international classes. (The Church and the traditional aristocracy -not Marx’ proletariat- are precursors.)

The left-liberal elite of cultural leaders is attracted to its self-generated ideals and it resents the political power of practical men. Beyond that, the ability to convert the control over ideas into political might is considerable. The sway over the media, education, and of cultural life in general, all translate into an influence that, in practical terms, amount to power. In numerous professions, recognition, careers, and even earning a living, is not possible against the will of the morally empowered. Those active in practical politics can confirm that governing against the entrenched liberal elite is difficult. It will remain so until the “deplorable” common man converts his polite silence into indignant involvement.

The governing record of abstraction-chasing intellectuals has an undistinguished score. This has not inspired a critical revision of pet projects. Here a newly popularized concept to right the wrongs of the past by remodeling the future comes to mind. It is the initially catching, idea of “reparations”. It advocates the paying of compensation for the descendants of those whose ancestors have, according to the past’s practice, suffered wrongs by the present’s standards. At the moment, the project has put slavery in America in its cross-hairs. Expect the idea’s internationalization to follow.

Reparations are an attractive concept. It keeps that status until you examine the details. As a starter, there must be a group that underachieves by the general standards of its society. To make a claim, this condition must be attributable to a past wrong imposed by identifiable groups that can afford to pay.

Several difficulties emerge upon closer examination. Generations might separate the tort from the present. This makes tenuous the relationship of the past’s victims and the persons to be compensated now. The same goes for the nexus between history’s villains and those credited to be their inheritors. What share of the reparations shall burden a person that might have immigrated, as has this writer, in the fifties? How is the benefit of an individual with a victim on the family tree to be calculated if a subsequent ancestor intermarried with the “oppressors”? Is race, or whatever is declared to be one, going to be the sole standard? The rising number of fake claims seeking advantages by claiming victim status contain a warning. Should a Black PhD, or a Spaniard who moved to Mexico and then to the US, to get something? Will members of victim groups need to contribute to repay indigenous peoples such as Aztecs or Mayas? What will be done about women in general? Can one compute and deduct the worth of the advantages extended under Affirmative Action or a promotion in the attempt to meet a quota?

Interesting are the global implications. The world is full of victims whose ancestors might have been oppressors. Can Serbs raise claims against modern-day Turkey? If so, can a demand be made in the name of tens of thousands of Italians and Magyars massacred by Serbs at the end of WW2? How about the obligations of the Mongols that have destroyed Russia and who devastated much of Europe? Do the Greeks, themselves subsequently victims, owe something to Persia? An endless list indicates that compensation might be an attractive principle for the ignorant but totally impractical in the real world of the informed.

Reparations appear to be a well-meaning but unviable tool to correct history’s consequences. Beyond the confusion regarding who should get how much and for what, the concept has a further flaw. The reparations project is a typical proposal that assumes that those who “have” owe that to the ones that “want”. In this case, justice is to take from those that do not deserve their holdings in order to advantage their deprived victims. Operating this redistribution empowers those who can bribe their supporters. This might entrench those in power, but it will hardly create a fair society. Unless prevented by the state, the plucked “haves” – except those that leave for a receptive environment – will recover as they have the skills and the right attitude. Whatever has been syphoned off will discourage economically rational behavior but it will not permanently stifle the able.

Artificially injected wealth is unlikely to create lasting benefits. This is a reason why foreign aid has not triggered self-supporting change. You know the saying “to really help, do not send us fish, give us nets”. The infusion of money triggers hedonistic consumption and not shrewd investments. Money dispersed by the sprinkler method will generate support while it lasts. A productive and prosperous society leveled at a higher standard will not be among the outcomes. Free lunches can still an appetite. They cannot fill the pantry and recruit cooks. That feature makes them into a merry prelude to famine.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/why_reparations_will_never_work.html

Why Reparations Will Never Work

By George Handlery

Reparations?

As global wealth grows, the wealth of productive societies expands at lightning speed. Thereby, the material luxury of modernized countries grows at a rate that would have been deemed to be science fiction a few decades ago. 

At the same time, the left-behind communities become aware of an exasperating condition. The cadence of their improvement is slow, so the gap widens that separates their attainment from that of the leading creators of progress. This is the case except for when equality through poverty is a chosen policy; the North Koreas stagnate as a matter of principle. 

The problem is that some experience only a slow rise of living standards, while other societies rise like rockets. Summing up, whilst for most of the world expectations and performance rise, there are laggards whose frustration grows. The demand that the losers be compensated expresses that sentiment.

As a rule, poverty is not caused by nature. However, its gifts to the lucky few can bankroll easy abundance. 

The observant discovers the roots of the discrepancy in wealth in man-made policies that are reflections of culture. Cultures can change, and the national character is not unalterable either. Even if bad policies can be replaced by good measures, the preferred instinctive response to the problem of backwardness tends to favor other remedies. It might be “human nature” or just a learned bad habit, to attribute shortcomings to the machinations of the agents of evil. Jews, capitalist, foreigners, heresy, and inventively imagined conspiracies are ingredients of well-selling snake medicine. These are popular, easily blamed enemies. It is simple to persuade the politically naïve that evil plotters cause the misery of decent folks that they fleece.

In most cases, secular religions arise to organize those convinced of having been robbed and artificially disadvantaged. 

Consequently, the modern era’s great “isms,” even if they point to different culprits, concur in one decisive matter. All of them, national socialism, international socialism, fascism, and “Third-Worldism” claim to struggle against the forces of malevolence that collude to impoverish and subjugate mankind. 

Once persuaded of this, it follows to the convert that the wicked must be combatted. Since the proof of the crime is the relative wealth of the impostors, this can be done by seizing their means through “nationalization” or outright looting. Those that direct this struggle are steeled by their belief that whatever battles the absolutely vile, becomes thereby a morally pure agent of redemption. Given the traits of the enemy, such a force can neither fail (“history is ours”) nor derail morally.

“History is on our side” and that the “Party/Leader is never wrong,” are cardinal features of modern mass movements. In a totalitarian manner, these intend to break with the past to bring about a “New Order.” These traits include a predatory commitment to redistribute the wealth built up in successful societies. Such an organization requires a strong leadership. It needs to convert its control of the culture into political power to create the “unity” the program presupposes.

We are living in an age in which a “guilt and atonement” culture prevails. It serves to explain missed modernization and the resulting discrepancy in the amount of well-being and rights enjoyed. The alleged victims of systemic disadvantage have become a well-organized and rewarded “profession.” Much of its power comes from lobbyists that are native to successful societies. 

This element is often described as “liberal” and it is recruited in the privileged classes that are the cultural critics of those that have created the economics of plenty. Unimpeded by borders, this educated but materially unproductive elite forms one of history’s rare international classes. (The Church and the traditional aristocracy -not Marx’ proletariat- are precursors.)

The left-liberal elite of cultural leaders is attracted to its self-generated ideals and it resents the political power of practical men. Beyond that, the ability to convert the control over ideas into political might is considerable. The sway over the media, education, and of cultural life in general, all translate into an influence that, in practical terms, amount to power. In numerous professions, recognition, careers, and even earning a living, is not possible against the will of the morally empowered. Those active in practical politics can confirm that governing against the entrenched liberal elite is difficult. It will remain so until the “deplorable” common man converts his polite silence into indignant involvement.

The governing record of abstraction-chasing intellectuals has an undistinguished score. This has not inspired a critical revision of pet projects. Here a newly popularized concept to right the wrongs of the past by remodeling the future comes to mind. It is the initially catching, idea of “reparations”. It advocates the paying of compensation for the descendants of those whose ancestors have, according to the past’s practice, suffered wrongs by the present’s standards. At the moment, the project has put slavery in America in its cross-hairs. Expect the idea’s internationalization to follow.

Reparations are an attractive concept. It keeps that status until you examine the details. As a starter, there must be a group that underachieves by the general standards of its society. To make a claim, this condition must be attributable to a past wrong imposed by identifiable groups that can afford to pay.

Several difficulties emerge upon closer examination. Generations might separate the tort from the present. This makes tenuous the relationship of the past’s victims and the persons to be compensated now. The same goes for the nexus between history’s villains and those credited to be their inheritors. What share of the reparations shall burden a person that might have immigrated, as has this writer, in the fifties? How is the benefit of an individual with a victim on the family tree to be calculated if a subsequent ancestor intermarried with the “oppressors”? Is race, or whatever is declared to be one, going to be the sole standard? The rising number of fake claims seeking advantages by claiming victim status contain a warning. Should a Black PhD, or a Spaniard who moved to Mexico and then to the US, to get something? Will members of victim groups need to contribute to repay indigenous peoples such as Aztecs or Mayas? What will be done about women in general? Can one compute and deduct the worth of the advantages extended under Affirmative Action or a promotion in the attempt to meet a quota?

Interesting are the global implications. The world is full of victims whose ancestors might have been oppressors. Can Serbs raise claims against modern-day Turkey? If so, can a demand be made in the name of tens of thousands of Italians and Magyars massacred by Serbs at the end of WW2? How about the obligations of the Mongols that have destroyed Russia and who devastated much of Europe? Do the Greeks, themselves subsequently victims, owe something to Persia? An endless list indicates that compensation might be an attractive principle for the ignorant but totally impractical in the real world of the informed.

Reparations appear to be a well-meaning but unviable tool to correct history’s consequences. Beyond the confusion regarding who should get how much and for what, the concept has a further flaw. The reparations project is a typical proposal that assumes that those who “have” owe that to the ones that “want”. In this case, justice is to take from those that do not deserve their holdings in order to advantage their deprived victims. Operating this redistribution empowers those who can bribe their supporters. This might entrench those in power, but it will hardly create a fair society. Unless prevented by the state, the plucked “haves” – except those that leave for a receptive environment – will recover as they have the skills and the right attitude. Whatever has been syphoned off will discourage economically rational behavior but it will not permanently stifle the able.

Artificially injected wealth is unlikely to create lasting benefits. This is a reason why foreign aid has not triggered self-supporting change. You know the saying “to really help, do not send us fish, give us nets”. The infusion of money triggers hedonistic consumption and not shrewd investments. Money dispersed by the sprinkler method will generate support while it lasts. A productive and prosperous society leveled at a higher standard will not be among the outcomes. Free lunches can still an appetite. They cannot fill the pantry and recruit cooks. That feature makes them into a merry prelude to famine.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/why_reparations_will_never_work.html

The ongoing election madness

By Don Sucher

The central thing used to be winning votes. Now it is winning power — two very different things.

The first is predicated on the idea that ours is to be a government ‘of, by and for the people.’ Today the “people” are seen as merely an obstacle to be won over, or equally, bamboozled or ignored. The goal is no longer reaching them but getting past them.

Thus the selective hiding of essential facts and the blatant twisting of stories to those ends.

This has always been so on the margins — within cities owned and run by a corrupt party apparatus — but such was looked down upon and seen as an aberration. Today it’s what hired political operatives, many lawyers, and the media see as simply the means to getting what they think they deserve: more power.

And “the people”? These matter really not at all except as a means to an end.

And thus making ‘the people’ easier to bamboozle and easily countable or overcountable at election time is the long-term focus.

Again, such was long so in a few corrupt cities. But today it is an almost open goal with noncitizens increasingly given a voice in the selection of elected (can we even reliably use the phrase “duly elected” any longer?) officials, and, more recently the push to allow convicted felons to vote.

So too the dumbing down of education — the more unlearned the better, to ease the bamboozling and, yes, the outright vote buying with government program giveaways — or so the common understanding has for some time been.

The selective silence about some election results, along with the loud trumpeting of other results is also a part of this. As is the timing of such.

This has been increasingly so as the shift from winning votes to winning power has become the modus vivendi. But new to this election is the willingness to actually publicly stop counting votes until new ones can be “found,” as is both the media’s willingness to go along with this and the poorly educated’s seeming willingness to accept both the fact of it and the excuses used to justify it.

That all the above has not totally succeeded is because of the fundamental truths that underlie our republic — especially that of the basic equality of man. For while untaught and “deeply feeling” people have been successfully created by the system (Check out slang word “Karen”!) the bringing in of supposedly easy-to-lead and mislead migrants has not gone entirely according to plan.

Before the present election day debacle is resolved, due credit will have to be given to the bulwark that the supposedly easy to lead and mislead Hispanic population — most especially those who came here from Cuba and Venezuela — has proved to be. They who had been fed the socialist lie and line before and knew the “truth” about it. Such simply were not easily fooled. Thank God for that and them!

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/the_ongoing_election_madness.html

The Incredible Never-Ending Election Continues

Donald N. Finley

As of this writing, the 2020 presidential election is still not finished.  Many Americans are dumbfounded. 

The counting pause late into the evening on Election Night, amid a Trump surge in nearly all of the uncalled battleground states, is well documented.  The Fox News early calls of Virginia and Arizona for Biden, while the math favored Trump, and the reported vote counts were low, defies logic, despite their experts’ 100% certainty.  Fox News’s failure to call Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina for what seemed hours after 99% of the vote was in, given the early calls just mentioned, was inexplicable. 

Trying to put all this together, we had the “Transition Integrity Project,” published in August.  All along, the Democrats have planned to delay conceding; Hillary advised Biden not to concede under any circumstances.  Logically, the only reason would be to eliminate his need to concede at all, since the vote deficits could easily be pinpointed, and with prior planning, everything could be in place to fix the problem.  In the middle of the night — say, around 3 A.M. or so, when everyone is tired, with a break in the action — the plan could go into effect.  

We also had the polling farce.  For months, Biden held a commanding lead in nearly every poll, while our lying eyes showed us Trump rallies all across the country with tens of thousands in attendance.  There were Trump parades strung for miles and miles on highways and waterways, a phenomenon never seen for any election, at least in my lifetime.  Pundits commented how they had never before heard the “We Love You” chant for any candidate.  While Trump energetically traversed the nation, keeping a pace that exhausted those just watching, Biden hid in his basement, preparing for a debate, playing damage control for Hunter, or doing a Zoom interview with a teleprompter.  No one called it campaigning, but it was “clearly working for him.”

We had the Russia, Russia, Russia revelations that trickled out through the tireless work of Judicial Watch and House Republicans.  There were verified, irrefutable illegal acts carried out by the Obama administration against Trump’s campaign and loyalists.  The brain-washing of the electorate against Trump began before he took office, and Biden was in the thick of it. 

The brainwashing continued through the Mueller investigation and into the impeachment debacle, where the president was impeached for what Biden had bragged on video about doing, and we now know from Hunter’s laptop that it was just the tip of the iceberg of Biden’s corruption.

We had the MSM, where anti-Trump brainwashing was a never-ending effort.  Ninety-plus percent of stories about Trump were negative, and his accomplishments, even his brokered peace deals in the Middle East, were barely touched upon, if mentioned at all.  Did any voters even know he has five nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021?  Tucker Carlson did an entire show with the Bidens’ former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, who revealed Joe Biden’s lies; he knew all about Hunter’s influence-peddling in multiple foreign countries.  Carlson said not a single other MSM network even mentioned the name “Bobulinski.”  So the MSM not only brain-washed the electorate against Trump, but omitted the positive about him, as well as the negative about Biden, right up to the election.  Over four years of record-breaking accomplishments and fulfilling campaign promises that made America, and Americans, stronger and more prosperous, and the president had to fight the biased onslaught non-stop. 

We had the social media giants, where foreign despots can trash America freely but the president of the United States running for re-election and his press secretary are censored for posting what is indisputably true.  The bias that ran rampant throughout influential American sources of public information was shameful and despicable, and it tilted the playing field against the president because he is not a politician.  Trump never fit the politician mold, sucking up to donors, parsing his words, staying above the fray, or looking away as Obama did while others sold out America for personal profit.   

We now await the conclusion of the greatest political scandal in American history, carried through to the end in what the Democrats and the MSM will laugh about behind closed doors.  Trump railed about voter fraud being real, and the response was always “there’s no evidence of it.”  Just like accusations of Joe Biden’s corruption — “there’s no evidence of any corruption.”  That just means you’ll have to find it; it’s not a denial of it being real, and thus, it’s technically not a lie.  That’s always how they do it.  This time, in league with operatives from the Transition Integrity Project placed in the population centers in every battleground state, they’re pulling off the ultimate “You’re Fired” scandal through pre-planned voter fraud on a massive scale.  Reports and videos have been posted for several days.  They should be transparent, but the Trump campaign has already filed suit because they’re covering it up — i.e., “no evidence.”

Joe Biden is a worse candidate than Hillary Clinton, and a worse Catholic than Osama bin Laden.  He’s provably corrupt, has no core beliefs beyond what his audience wants to hear, and has a longer record of plagiarism, going back to his 20s, than of legislative accomplishments in over a half-century.  He’s made up more versions of his own life’s story than he can recall.  His deal with Bernie Sanders to keep from completely alienating Bernie’s supporters promises to bring socialism ever closer to full reality in America.  Does anyone really believe, with his obvious mental decline, that Joe will be pulling his own strings?  He has sold his soul, if he had one, to the powers who promised to get him elected, something he’s wanted all his life.  This is about his dream being fulfilled, not his dream for America. 

Remember what’s at stake.  The Durham investigation into the crimes of the Obama administration will disappear if Biden is elected.  No accountability whatsoever.  He has even named some of his co-conspirators as possible Cabinet members.  Even Hillary wants to be secretary of defense!  When it’s all put together, it’s just about the scariest thing I’ve ever seen.

Donald N. Finley is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/the_incredible_neverending_election_continues.html

Count and Recount Every ‘Vote’ Until You Win

By Shama Tobin

First, they tried to bring him down with a sex “scandal” that almost elevated a creepy lawyer to a Democratic presidential contender.  Then they cooked up a baseless impeachment.  A virus came from China to later derail what could have been a landslide win for him.  Then numerous blatant push polls tried to demoralize his supporters.  (Just pick one.  Less than a week before the election, an ABC News–Washington Post poll gave Biden a 17% lead in Wisconsin.  Is there any way to sue these two corrupt companies?)

They had written him off.  Yet he not only survived, but also is winning — until a massive cheating operation came at the right time.  The votes he won in Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, and Wisconsin should be enough to re-elect Trump.  But he must be stopped.  Just use the old refined trick.

Joseph Stalin, the Russian communist dictator, once said it is not the people who vote that count, but the people who count the votes.  The Democratic Party in the U.S., which is full of radical leftists and quasi-communists, understands this trick well.  Not only that, but the party has perfected it.

On Election Night in 2008, the Republican Senate candidate in Minnesota, Norman Coleman, led the Democratic candidate, Al Franken, by 726 votes.  It’s enough to warrant an automatic recount.  Two weeks later, Coleman’s lead was down to 215.  The case then went back and forth to the court.  Six months later, the election winner was certified.  It was Al Franken, who then won by 312 votes.

Later investigation showed that 1,099 felons, all ineligible to vote, had voted in the race.  Writing in the Wall Street Journal, John Fund aptly titled it “Felons for Franken.”

Keep recounting the “votes” until you win.

On Election Night in November 2004, the Republican candidate, Dino Rossi, led his Democratic opponent, Christine Gregoire, by 261 votes in the Washington gubernatorial race.  That triggered an automatic recount.  After a three-week machine recount, Rossi was still ahead by 42 votes.

The Democrat Party asked for a recount again — manually.  In the second recount, the election officials in King County, a heavily Democrat jurisdiction, entered a locked “cage” in a warehouse.  They found a treasure: a plastic mail tray that contained 162 absentee ballots.  They also decided to count 573 other ballots that were already rejected because the election workers could not find voter signatures that corresponded to them.

Seven weeks after the election, Christine Gregoire eventually emerged as the winner by a 130-vote victory.

Keep recounting the votes, including the “extra” ones, until you win.

Exactly two years ago, in the congressional race in California’s District 39, the GOP candidate, Young Kim, faced the Democratic candidate, Gil Cisneros.  On election night, Kim led Cisneros by about 4,000 votes.  But that’s not the end.  There were still “many” mail-in ballots to be counted.  Even after Election Day.

After about ten days, Cisneros was declared a winner with a 3,020-vote victory.  The Kim campaign accused Cisneros’s campaign of foul play, stating that the overwhelming percentage of the mail-in ballots that had gone to Cisneros was way higher than the overall split in the normal votes.  And who was in charge of the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder?  Dean Logan, who was the election director in King County, Washington State, whose office mysteriously found the 162 absentee ballots in a warehouse.

Keep counting the votes, including the “extra” ones, until you win.

The mother of all election fiascos, until this year, is perhaps Florida 2000.  On Election Night, George W. Bush led Al Gore by 1,784 votes.  It’s enough for an automatic recount under Florida state law.  After a three-day recount in the 66 Florida counties that used vote-counting machines, Bush’s lead was down to 327 votes.  The Gore campaign requested a manual recount in four counties, which the Bush campaign objected to.  But the manual recount went ahead, and that’s the beginning of the fiasco, which led the U.S. Supreme Court on December 9, upon Bush’s appeal, to order the manual recount to stop.  At that time, Bush had a 537-vote victory.

After the election ended, a comprehensive study reported that George W. Bush would have increased his vote gap to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount continued.  But that was done with essentially nothing at stake.

When the stakes are too high, the invitation to cheat will be so strong that even a saint could falter.  I am fully convinced that Gore would have won the recount had it not been stopped.  “Votes” would have shown up from mysterious places.

The Democratic Party’s meme sounds noble: all votes must be counted. The problem is, who counts them, whose votes need to be counted (legal or illegal), and for how longshould the votes be counted?

President Trump was already ahead in the states of Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.  With a fair and honest count, Trump will win in all of these states and be re-elected.

But another Democratic Party trick came in handy.  When your opponent is about to win, delay the vote count.

Had Biden done very well and been expected to win Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania on the Election Night, the vote count would have continued.  But because Trump was about to win in the aforementioned states, the vote count was postponed.  

Why they didn’t count all the mail-in ballots first, as Florida did?  And why did they delay the vote count in heavily Democratic blocs?  It’s reasonable to believe they did it so they could anticipate the number of the votes they need to produce in order to win the election.  If the still uncounted “votes” turn out to overwhelmingly go for Biden, it will be said that the ballots are coming from Democratic strongholds for justification.

Brilliant!  But it smells to high heaven like fraud.

Stalin’s dictum has been refined by the Democratic Party to include “whose votes” to be counted.  They are applying it in this presidential election to stop Trump — at any cost and at any means.

This time, we hope they meet their match: a street-fighter president. Trump must fight to the end. Otherwise, the United States will soon descend into a banana republic.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/11/count_and_recount_every_vote_until_you_win.html