After the 2020 election, a significant subset of election doomers insisted on clamoring in the comments that voting was futile. Useless. Accomplished nothing. Algorithms in machines would just automatically suppress their vote. No election could ever be won again. Ever!

(If you think I’m exaggerating, go back and read some of the comments we’ve gotten over the past few years.)

There were more sensible takes which were concerned with election fraud without telling people that there was no point in voting. But the black pill crowd was out there and while it’s hard to know how many votes they cost, probably in the thousands, if not in the tens of thousands. While they didn’t stop this election, they depressed turnout in the 2022 midterm election.

If the 2024 election proved nothing else, it’s that voting works. When there’s a ‘steal’ on, the thing to do is to outvote the steal and beat the margin of fraud.

Efforts at election integrity, especially in Pennsylvania, the home of some of the most shameless voter fraud this side of Tammany, proved especially important. While overall efforts fell fall short of what we need to properly secure elections (and I’m not even talking about voter ID), they certainly played a role.

Most importantly though, a landslide can’t be stopped. There is a margin of fraud. Always. But it’s not infinitely elastic.

You can beat fraud in multiple ways. Election integrity is one. Voting in the right voting officials is another. And out-voting the steal is something anyone can play a part in doing.

No more black pill election doomerism. We’re not at the mercy of a voting matrix that makes voting pointless. People can vote and they can win.