Virginia – put down the black pill

Election Season came to Virginia yesterday, with the start of Early Voting. Too many people, including some YouTube influencers who should know better, expect the Democrats to carry Virginia. But as CNAV said nine days ago, Virginia is in play. Republicans could carry the State for Donald J. Trump, and even send a Republican to the Senate. But they won’t do either, unless they exchange their Black Pill for a White one. The reasons Democrats – Liberal Democrats – have carried Virginia are many and varied – but none present an insurmountable problem. Realizing that, is the Republican path to victory.

Definitions

Multi-colored pills, as metaphors for political savvy, naivete, triumphalism, or fatalism, come from the Matrix franchise by the Wachowski They/Thems. (They were the Wachowski Brothers, but they submitted to surgical mutilation and hormonal poisoning to become the Wachowski Sisters.) But their colored-pill metaphors remain an important part of American political culture, nevertheless. The color code is as follows:

Blue Pill – the pill of deception, and comfortably living in the fools’ paradise that the powers-that-be have created. That anti-paradise is called The Matrix. This corresponds roughly to Thomas Jefferson’s observation that:

[M]ankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Declaration of Independence

Red Pill – the pill of truth, and discovery that someone, or a vast conspiracy, have been lying to you.

Black Pill – the pill of fatalism, of considering an enemy inescapable, invulnerable, and unmovable.

White Pill – the pill of victory, of realizing that your enemy always has a weakness. Had Archimedes been a political scientist, and not the ancient version of a physicist, he would offer the White Pill. He who worked out the principle of the Lever – one of the Three Basic Machines – also said:

Give me one firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Or, find the crack in the Blue Wall, and with the appropriate machine – the Wedge – you shall bring it down.

Reasons to believe Virginia is not in play

Your editor “gets it.” Barack Obama brought his Hope and Change platform to Virginia, and carried it in 2008. But in the very next year, a Republican still won the Governorship. So what happened after that? What happened is that Barack Obama installed his “cheating machines” in a wide variety of units. (In Virginia lingo, a unit is either a county or an independent city.) The Virginia Report, recommended by former State Sen. Amanda F. Chase (R-Chesterfield Co.), gives details.

What also happened is that the Republican National Committee wrote off Virginia. That was part of the undesirable reforms by former Gov. Willard “Mitt” Romney (R-Mass.), now the retiring Senator from Utah. Arguably the Republican Party of Virginia has been in incompetent hands beginning in 2013. In that year, Terence McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton’s “fixer” who got her a mansion in a steal of a deal in Chappaqua, New York, so that she could travel there, carpet bag in hand, and enter the Senate from that State (knowing she would be a bust in Arkansas), ran for Governor and won. He was a governor in the Obama mold, and in 2017 campaigned for an even-worse successor, one Ralph Northam, M.D. (Besides being a disgrace as a governor, he is a disgrace to the medical profession. He, more than anyone else, turned Virginia into an abortion tourist trap.)

Other reasons

Furthermore, your editor has seen the ads. “Try living in a housing project when you can’t afford your rent,” says a voice-over narrator supporting a Democrat. “You have ten minutes to pack your life together and move out.” The race and sex of that narrator doesn’t matter. What matters is that the person must surely be lying. Evictions don’t work that way without plenty of warning. All of which to say the Democratic generic platform says: “Vote for us and you can keep playing the deadbeat.”

Yes, and Northern Virginia is full of another kind of deadbeat – the federal employee. At least one other person, observing that Virginia is in play, does not suggest that Donald J. Trump hold one of his signature rallies in, say, Arlington or Alexandria or Falls Church. After all, that’s where the federal employees live, and this does not limit itself to Members of Congress. We’re talking about members of some of the most left-leaning public-sector unions, including without limit:

• American Federation of Government Employees, representing low- to mid-level staff of three-letter agencies, and
• National Treasury Employees’ Union – which represents not only Treasury Department staff generally, but also Internal Revenue Service staff.

Last Wednesday the NTEU endorsed Kamala Harris for President.

The NTEU press release speaks of satisfaction of typical union demands:

fair pay, paid family leave, adequate agency funding and staffing, and robust collective bargaining rights.

But this statement goes to their “appreciation” that Kamala Harris appreciates the mission of the government’s three-letter agencies:

Kamala Harris has a long career in public service, which has given her a keen understanding of how the skilled civil servants who perform the day-to-day work of government are vital to our democracy. She is a powerful voice for workers and their unions, recognizing that taxpayers are better served when the federal workforce is organized and empowered to help agencies meet their important public service missions.

Like harassing taxpayers and investigating “discrimination”?

So why is Virginia in play after all?

Worried Republican activists tell CNAV that “a tremendous concentration of Democrat voters” in Northern Virginia presents an insurmountable problem. Well, tell that to Gov. Terence McAuliffe. The only reason he still rates the title of “Governor” is that he once served as Governor. Glenn Youngkin – a Republican – stopped McAuliffe from trying to play the “seat warming trick” in 2021. McAuliffe had the bad sense to assert that “parents ought have no say in their children’s education.” That, plus Steve Bannon’s Precinct Strategy, put Youngkin over the top. (Precinct Strategy means taking over the Party apparatus from precinct level, and signing up to be poll watchers and workers.)

And because Virginia has a Republican governor, it has a Republican Secretary of State. So the Virginia Department of Elections has done some work in sanitizing the voter rolls. Recently Gov. Youngkin issued Executive Order 31, which requires better data sharing between VDE and other State agencies. He then followed that up with another order requiring that all units keep track of their paper ballots. Not only that, but chiefs of precinct must count ballots issued, ballots unused, ballots spoiled, and ballots cast. Failure of those numbers to “tally” would then require a higher-level investigation.

Besides that, Kamala Harris has run a worse campaign than McAuliffe’s – by turns incompetent and frighteningly extreme. If that doesn’t increase enthusiasm for Trump – and all Republicans down-ticket – nothing will.

Latest polls

As mentioned, Early Voting began yesterday. Beginning forty-five days in advance of any election, voters may vote in advance at their unit’s Central Absentee Precinct. As long as early voting must exist, conservatives must avail themselves of it. Doing so stops what was likely the most decisive “cheat” of the Election of 2020: manipulation of mail-in absentee ballots. In 2021, early voting “broke” three to two for Gov. Youngkin and his “ticket.” Yesterday, Christina Laila of The Gateway Pundit reported that Trump supporters “dominated” the Central Absentee Precinct in Fairfax County.

For the benefit of the X user who asked,

Why are they allowing electioneering this close to a polling location? This is actually illegal in every state.

The standard Prohibited Area of any voting precinct extends 40 feet from the door in Virginia.

Mike Lachance (TGP) also reported fresh polling showing Kamala Harris still leading in Virginia, but not by the margin by which Joe Biden carried the State in 2020.

The Full Field poll is irrelevant – because the Virginia Board of Elections took Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name off the ballot, per his request. So activists can forget the outlying Washington Post push poll putting Harris eight points ahead of Trump.

Recall also how Capt. Seth Keshel USA (ret.) said Trump could carry the State, as The Virginia Report site repeats:

· Target Loudoun, Stafford, and Prince William Counties in NoVa, with a margin of defeat in NoVa as close to -400,000 as possible.

· Work the campaign in RoVa, as was just done with the Chesapeake rally, which if the NoVa target margin if met, will require a margin greater than +400,000 in RoVa to tilt the state. This is only possible if Democrat ballot stuffing in Trump-favorable areas is squashed.

· Flip back Virginia Beach and Chesapeake Counties and hope a substantial gain in the minority vote creates an unexpectedly large shift in margin. Black and Latino voters make up about one-quarter of the voter roll in the state, thereby contributing between 1.0 and 1.1 million ballots, so even a 10% improvement would shift 100,000 in margin.

Note that he didn’t even consider that someone has been active in Fairfax County. Fairfax County put campaign material into their mail-in absentee ballot kits in 2016. Reports from that county yesterday indicate a significant political “climate change.”

So how can one do it?

The Keshel Strategy applies to all units, while still distinguishing Northern Virginia (“NoVa”) from the Rest of Virginia (“RoVa”). Though NoVa is the federal employees’ nest, not all residents of NoVa are federal employees! And even so, that’s where the “Black Robed Regiment” comes in. This does not refer this time to preachers under arms, but to ministers carrying the Gospel message into an overlooked and underserved mission field. (Bradlee Dean said something similar last week.) If “faith comes by hearing” (Romans 10:17), then conviction of sin comes by a direct challenge to sinful practitioners. In this case, the sins are Sloth and Envy, two of the Seven Deadly Sins. Virginia’s abortion tourist trap status suggests also a role for a third: Lust. This also goes to the need for a Second Great Awakening.

Aside from that, Republican Committeewoman Patti Lyman told CNAV directly that she does not consider Virginia “a blue State.” Look, she says, for the “low-propensity voter.” That’s the voter who votes rarely, if he is not totally inactive. Offer such voters a ride to the Central Absentee Precinct, now that in-person Early Voting has begun. And remind such people of this maxim, from a Public Service Announcement campaign of the Sixties:

Vote, and the choice is yours. Don’t vote, and the choice is theirs.

Victory starts with a proper state of mind.

Men who feel licked are gonna get licked! Actor Ben Gazzara, as Maj. Gen. Joe Barrett USA, in Fireball Forward (1972)

Or in Matrix terms: put down the Black Pill, and take the White instead. This has nothing to do with race, but again – with mind-set. To repeat: Virginia is definitely in play. Let Republicans take heart.