November 5, 2024 is the big day. We may not actually find out the official results on this day unless there is a resounding Trump victory, which isn’t impossible at this point.
To be sure, this shouldn’t be a big day. There is something wrong with an entire system when our lives so heavily depend on an election. Some libertarians take the position that it doesn’t matter who is elected president because they are all statists. To a certain extent that is true, but it is hard to say that there is no difference. If there were no difference, then the ruling elite wouldn’t be working so hard to ensure a particular result.
Just as in past elections, the whole thing could come down to a handful of swing states. Within those swing states, there are probably less than 100,000 swing voters who will ultimately determine the results if the results are at least somewhat valid.
Think about Florida in 2000. It is not clear today how much better or worse our country would have been with Gore instead of Bush. But it came down to just a few hundred votes in one state.
Why should our lives be determined by a few thousand votes, or even a few hundred thousand votes, out of a country with around 340 million people? Again, there is something wrong with our system. The thing that is wrong is that the presidency and the entire federal government have way too much power. If there weren’t so much power, then it wouldn’t mean so much to so many people.
Trump Soars While Kamala Harris Dives
I am expecting a Trump victory. I will not be shocked if he isn’t the declared winner, and I won’t be shocked if he is prevented from taking office. Still, I think he is going to win the election. He may not win the so-called popular vote, but he will win the electoral votes, which is what matters.
Kamala Harris has been a complete disaster for her party and the ruling elite. She has been fumbling her interviews and speeches. She is just not likable at all. The only thing she has going for her is that the ruling elite is on her side, and the ruling elite have propagandized nearly half of the population to despise Donald Trump and have an irrational hatred of the man.
Kamala Harris is also dealing with the Joe Biden problem. He not only has some kind of dementia, but then he shows his true colors and calls Trump supporters “garbage”. This is not something that Bill Clinton or Obama would have done.
The Democrats and the ruling elite have resorted to calling Trump the next Hitler and saying that he had a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden. This smells of pure desperation.
Meanwhile, Trump is soaring, but not if you watch the establishment media. Trump appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast where he mostly acted like a normal human being. Trump had his weak moments in the 3-hour long conversation, but he mostly came across as a decent person.
Trump the Person
I have heard some people say that they don’t like Trump the person but that his policies have been good for the country. I take almost the opposite approach.
I actually think Trump is a decent person. It doesn’t mean I have to defend everything he’s said and done in his life. I am not defending him if he cheated on his wife (current or past). I am not defending some of his name calling, although some of it probably was appropriate.
Listening to Trump, he just sounds like a real person. Most of the people from his past who knew him well speak highly of him. Trump brags a lot, but he actually doesn’t brag much about many good deeds he has done in the past.
I believe Trump actually does want the country to do well, even if it is just so he can brag about it. Most of all, I don’t think Trump hates me. Joe Biden hates me. He spent his presidency not just attacking Trump, but attacking Trump supporters. In some ways, he attacked anyone who didn’t go along with his dictates. Does anyone remember the vaccine mandates and Biden trying to demonize anyone who didn’t want it?
Kamala Harris is covering it up a tiny bit better than Biden, but she hates my guts too. She hates normal families. She hates middle America. She once bragged about her idea of putting parents in jail if their kids missed too much school in California. She promoted a bail fund to release violent criminals from the 2020 riots. She hates our guts.
The people supporting Harris are supporting someone who hates them too. She will accept them as long as they fall in line, but the minute they fall out of line, Harris will send in the goons to set them straight.
I don’t agree with many Trump policies. I thought he was bad on COVID. I don’t agree with imposing tariffs. I don’t agree with his support of the Israeli state. I don’t agree with his belligerence towards Iran. I don’t agree with many of his previous picks for his administration.
Yet, in spite of all that, he is still better than Harris and her puppet masters. I think he is at least sincere in wanting the country to do well. He doesn’t want to tear down western civilization.
Rough Times Ahead
No matter who officially wins the presidential election, there is going to be chaos. The economy is set to implode no matter who takes office.
If Harris wins, we will have more mandates, more authoritarianism, and more cultural decline. It’s possible we get this with Trump too, but it is a certainty with Harris.
If Trump wins, the powers-that-be are purposely going to create more chaos. Don’t underestimate their ability to double-down yet again. We will get more Russia collusion stories. We will get more attempts to throw him in jail. Perhaps there will be more assassination attempts. We will certainly get more Hitler stories. It is going to be total chaos.
Although we are in for some crazy times, there is part of me that is optimistic. We have more Americans than ever questioning the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the FDA, the CDC, and many other agencies. We have this unique coalition of people like Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Vivek Ramaswamy, RFK Jr., and Nicole Shanahan. None of them are libertarians, but they all have some ideas that are libertarian. And again, I get the impression that they don’t despise me and actually want to do good things.
This is a prime opportunity for libertarians to reach out to Trump supporters and find common ground. It is also an opportunity to educate them on the things that Trump gets wrong and to move them in our direction. Tucker Carlson has done a really good job of this on issues of foreign policy and the national security state.
No matter who wins on November 5th (or after), there is going to be chaos. But there is also a path forward that involves greater liberty and less power for the government.