As long as there are elections that determine who will hold power and who will control and distribute money, there will be people who want to cheat. The rest of us must be vigilant and constantly on guard to keep elections clean, free and fair.
Back in 1981, near the small town of Antelope, Oregon an Indian guru—the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh—set up a commune designed to be an idyllic utopian farming community. They were industrious and it went pretty well at first. But when they were not allowed to do things that violated county and city ordinances, major tensions grew between those on the ranch and the local town folk.
Frustrated that they couldn’t have their way, the Rajneeshees, as they were called, determined that they needed to take over the politics of the town and even the county. They did take over and rename the town, but on their commune they didn’t have enough voters to prevail in Wasco county elections. Their remedy for this—and if this doesn’t start to sound familiar to you, it should—was to fill buses with homeless people, bring them to the ranch and fold them into their commune in time for the next election. They brought busload after busload. Then, when election time came, they sent that several hundred people out to vote their way.
Interestingly, just to make sure that their effort didn’t fail they went to ten local eateries—in The Dalles, Oregon and around the county—and spread salmonella germs on the self-service buffets so the locals would be too sick to get to the polls. Over 700 people fell ill.
Predictably, these efforts caused them enough legal difficulties and turmoil that they not only didn’t win the vote, their idyllic utopian commune quickly fell apart.
Why do I tell this story? I see no difference between what they were doing then and what Democrats are doing today on the border: Find a group of people who will be totally dependent upon you, bring them into your Society and make voters of them. It’s how you win elections.
And as for the salmonella let it just be a warning to us that people who are so motivated will stop at almost nothing to make sure elections go their way.
If you can see a difference between what the Bhagwan did in Antelope, Oregon and what Joe Biden is doing on the border, you’ll have to educate me on that difference. Apart from scale, I see none. It was cheating when the Bhagwan brought people to Oregon purely for their vote. And it’s cheating when Joe Biden stops construction on the wall, spreads out the welcome mat, and secretly flies plane loads of illegal immigrants into Pennsylvania, Florida and other states where he knows that Democrats will need more votes.
Please be warned. We must be ever suspicious and always vigilant, for people who are so motivated will stop at nothing to tilt elections their way.
