The Process Matters

Coaches always tell their players that the process matters, that the fundamentals are important, because in the most pressurized situations of the game, the process, the fundamentals are what we rely on to succeed. It is a natural tendency in critical situations for the player to divorce himself from his fundamentals, from his technique, and do things outside of himself, which invariably causes failure. The process matters. How we do things is as important, if not more than the results that we get. It’s always bad practice to sacrifice our principles for short term gain.

In the 2020 election, major changes were made to our election system in many states, most particularly, the battleground states, which eliminated many of the election integrity processes. These states instituted universal mail-in ballots, unsecured drop boxes, no signature match, and no voter ID. By doing all this, they opened the door to the potential for massive voter fraud, and whether Joe Biden would have been elected legitimately or not is less important than the damage those changes will have on all of our future elections, and the future of our democracy.

As a result of making it so easy to commit voter fraud in those states, many of the future representatives we “elect” will not be the ones who the majority of the voters voted for, but the ones who were the most effective cheaters. So, the most dishonest and manipulative candidates will be our “elected” representatives, which should not be the criteria we use to entrust a person with political power. The Democrats compromised the integrity of our election system for the short-term gain, to defeat Donald Trump in 2020, but by doing so, they opened the door to the destruction of our election system and of our democracy.