During my two decades as a college professor, I, along with a number of my colleagues, would at the start of each semester teach a class called Freshman seminar. The one week, required seminar was designed to help incoming students acclimate to the college environment.

To illustrate one of the points we were supposed to teach, I would ask a random guy in the class if he had ever asked a girl out on a date. Invariably he had. Then I would ask if he had ever met any girls that he would not want to ask out. Again, another yes. Then I would ask a random girl if she had ever been asked out… by a guy with whom she did not want to go out? Well, yes. Then I would ask them both whether they would be able to give specific reasons why they would choose to go out with one person and not another. I didn’t want to know what those reasons were, I just wanted to know whether they knew. Then I asked a question that stumped almost everyone in all the Seminars I taught over the years. “Why are those reasons the standard by which you determine your choice of dates?” With that, I accomplished my purpose. Instead of just going with what their parents, peers, or favorite movies told them was a good choice, I now had them questioning their preconceived ideas. Those students had taken the first step toward learning how to think for themselves.

I mention this story because too many people hold certain beliefs, but they do not know why they hold them. They have never questioned those beliefs, and they cannot defend them against counter arguments. They just blindly hold on to their cherished beliefs. Those people have learned what to think, but they have not learned how to think.

It’s like geometry, which is built on postulates and theorems. Postulates are ideas that are assumed to be true. Theorems are ideas that must be proven using postulates and other theorems.. The problem comes when a false idea is assumed to be true. People use it as a postulate, which results in faulty logic and false theorems.

Higher education in America has become driven by socialist educators who tell their side of the argument and expect their students to accept that side as a postulate. They do not allow other views to be presented. And if a student wants a passing grade, they have to parrot the professor’s pet philosophy. In no way does that teach students how to think for themselves. It only teaches them to buy into “group think” and to be close-minded about anything that does not walk in lockstep with it.

The inability to think and challenge basic ideas is a waste of American minds and is destroying all that is good about America.

One Democrat postulate is “orange-haired man is bad.” Supporters of the socialist philosophy assume their disdain of President Trump is based on supposed postulates that they were taught in class or were fed by CNN, MSNBC, and other hyper-liberal sources. They use those postulates – that are not real postulates – to justify their positions, their theorems, if you will, upon which they build their political philosophies. Unfortunately, those passionate and vitriolic Trump-haters have never bothered to explore the underlying sources of their beliefs. They expend an incredible amount of psychological and physical energy based on what someone else has declared to be a postulate rather than on what they have explored and determined for themselves is the truth.

Socialist educators do not want their students to engage in exploratory reasoning because they know that their socialist “postulates” will not stand against open and honest scrutiny. They are false ideas. They always have been. These socialists hide their falsehoods behind loud, raucous screams of outrage against things they claim others have done when actually they themselves are guilty of those exact things. It is by these tactics that educators and media personalities attempt to keep their rank-and-file so busy reacting to what they have been taught, that they will not find the time to examine the truth behind the “postulates” that are the basis of their teaching.

Thankfully, many among the Democrat rank-and-file are starting to really examine the socialist postulates. And because they are, they are leaving the Democrat Party. They no longer start at the point where their socialist influencers want them to start. They now go two, three, ten steps further back in the reasoning process. When they start with real postulates, real truths, they come to totally different conclusions than the ones to which the false postulates they have been taught would lead them.

Americans owe it to themselves to evaluate why they think what they think and whether they are basing their beliefs on actual truths. It is the first and essential step in learning how to think.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

There is not enough time between now and the election for today’s letter to cover only one topic.

My father celebrated his 100^th birthday last week. We took a picture of him with his youngest great-granddaughter, Alanna. They are 100 years apart in age. I couldn’t help but think of how different things were in America when my father was born, but also how much they are the same.

In 1920, Woodrow Wilson, the first “progressive” president was trying to get America to accept the League of Nations in a context that would give it authority over America. Americans were smart enough then to reject this idea. Today, too many Americans have been brainwashed by “progressive” educators, and they now believe that letting the United Nations have authority over America is a good idea. If Biden wins the White House and the “progressive” wing of the Democrat Party win the Senate, we will lose our autonomy before Alanna reaches her tenth birthday, and it could happen before she reaches her first birthday.

The UN wants to do away with national borders so that any quickly populating nationality can immigrate unhindered into countries with stagnant populations – such as America and the European countries – regardless of ideological compatibility. The votes of Americans would no longer matter because anyone would be allowed to vote, and the oligarchy of the UN would override those votes anyway if they didn’t like the outcome.

Which brings me to my second item: probably 20 to 25 percent of conservatives in the Sixth District are not registered to vote. And when asked to register, far too many of those unregistered citizens say they don’t want to register because they don’t want to be called for jury duty. That ranks as one of the most stupid and irresponsible excuses I have ever heard. People who won’t fulfil their responsibility to vote for the preservation of the nation because they don’t want to be inconvenienced by their civic duty, don’t deserve their liberties. Unfortunately, everyone else’s life will likewise go in the trash if we lose this election.

Which brings up another important point: we can’t focus our Get-Out-the-Vote efforts on November 3. Under new Virginia laws, voting begins on September 18. As of September 1, absentee ballot requests were running ten times higher than for the entire 2016 election. And registrars are sending letters to voters offering to send them early ballots so that the percentages will be even higher. Your local Republican chairman should have a plan in place to reach those individuals with sample ballots and then make sure that conservative voters’ ballots actually make it back into the registrar’s office. Democrats have been blatant this year about their history of fixing elections. And the Democrat majority in Virginia’s General Assembly has passed laws that remove barriers to several types of election fraud. Patriots cannot just wring their hands and moan in frustration. You – not someone else – you need to get involved. There is much that can be done, but it must be done by committed volunteers because Republicans don’t have the money the Democrats do to hire operatives, who by the way have been working on this full time for over a year. Contact your local GOP chairman for information. If your chairman can’t give you anything to do, contact me.

In addition to elections for Congress, U.S. Senate and President, the ballot contains two proposed amendments to the Virginia Constitution. I favor both of them, but Amendment 1 is crucial. It calls for a non-partisan commission to do the redistricting that is required following each U.S. Census. The Democrats, who helped write the amendment, are now fighting it. If it fails to pass, then the same Democrat controlled General Assembly that has so trampled the rights of Virginians will have the license to gerrymander the Delegate and State Senate and Congressional districts to give themselves an unbeatable edge for years to come

Finally, I recently celebrated my birthday. In lieu of cards and presents, I would ask that my generous and supportive readers make a significant donation to Daniel Gade’s campaign. And instead of taking the time to throw a birthday party for me, spend that time doing door-to-door campaigning for him and our other candidates. Or make phone calls. Or maybe even talk to your friends and neighbors to explain to them why it is time for Virginia to get a new U.S. Senator.  Gade has the credentials to beat self-serving, do-nothing Mark Warner. Gade just needs to get his message out. That requires money and volunteers. The biggest present you could give me is a victory for Daniel Gade and a permanent end to Mark Warner’s failure to look out for the best interests of Virginians.

Let’s do what we have to do to preserve our country. It won’t happen unless we actually get out and start doing. If not for yourself, then do it for my grandniece Alanna. If she, like her great-grandpa, lives 100 years, help her do it in a country that celebrates its liberty and continues to be the hope of the world.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

Anyone who cares about America can get a cheap boatload of anxiety. In fact, the Socialists are giving anxiety away for free. They bombard us with the threat that Covid-19 will kill us all if we don’t quarantine. Yet Dr. Scott Atlas, a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, wrote on the liberal website TheHill.com that Covid-19 has a fatality rate of less than 0.2 percent of those infected. Instead of allowing for people to go about their normal lives and in the process developing what Atlas calls “the vital population immunity,” we have all been isolated, which has its own health risks. It devastated the economy, which is now recovering, even though the recovery is not much mentioned for fear the news would reduce people’s anxiety.

The suppressed economy led to job loss which led to apprehension about the ability to pay one’s bills. Landlords can’t take any action when their tenants don’t pay their rent, yet they still have expenses. Other important medical procedures were curtailed because the hospitals needed to be left available to deal with an influx of Covid-19 patients that never materialized. In fact, hospitals will call almost any illness “Covid-19 related” so that they can get patients and get paid for treating them. Hospitals need income, too. Yet the practice artificially hypes Covid numbers resulting in more anxiety.

People worry about the threatened spread of riots, arson, and robbery. Law enforcement personnel are belittled and disrespected. Public safety concerns increase daily. People are afraid to breathe in a crowd. Churchgoers are afraid of fines and arrests for attending church – even though casinos are allowed to operate as though they are somehow more essential than churches. Being stuck at home for months on end creates mental stress. And there are never-ending attacks on a popular president and his policies. Yes, anxiety flourishes.

And then there is the huge set up for voter fraud in the November election. Democrats know that Biden cannot win an honest election. And honest people know that the Dems have the capacity to create a multitude of bogus votes that could swing election results. And then when the issue of who really won the presidential election is strung out so long that no decision has been made by January 20, then the Speaker of the House (at this point Nancy Pelosi) becomes president until a decision is made. The potential for voter fraud and the possibility of the election results going before a Congress with Pelosi as Speaker sometimes wakes me up at night.

So yes, there is a lot to produce anxiety in every patriotic American, but anxiety is a waste of energy, and it accomplishes nothing good.

Thankfully, this country was founded by people who believed that their freedoms are a gift from God. Those of us who still believe that know that God is a God who loves us and cares for us even though we as a country have drifted far from Him.

When the threats of this year wake me up, I can go back to sleep by remembering a few important messages that God gave to us. My personal favorite anxiety antidote is Philippians 4:6-7, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God which surpasses all comprehension will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Then in verse 19, the Apostle Paul adds, “And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.”

The Apostle Peter writes, “Cast all your anxieties on [God], because He cares for you” [I Peter 5:7]. The writer of Hebrews states, “For [God] Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?’” [Hebrews 13:5b-6]. And the Psalmist [27:1] writes, “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”

God’s overwhelming peace is a far better deal than what the Socialists are offering. After all anxiety is woefully overrated.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

P.S. Releasing our anxiety does not mean we should stop working. The RPV is instructing unit leaders about what we need to do to thwart election fraud. Volunteer to help with the work. Effectively taking action against the things that produce stress also helps relieve anxiety.

Despite repeated denials from Democrats, voter fraud is real. One Democrat operative was so proud of his long history of rigging elections that he gave an interview to explain many of his techniques. In an August 29 “New York Post” article, this long-time Democrat operative said that “voter fraud, especially with mail-in ballots, is no myth.” He claims not only to have spent decades engaging in election rigging, he also has trained at least twenty others in the fine art of election fraud. And he knows what he does is wrong. He demanded anonymity from the reporter because he fears prosecution.

His crusade to rig elections has affected local, state, and federal elections in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. He says the smaller the race, the easier it is to rig the result. He regularly swung elections by hundreds and occasionally thousands of votes. It is possible that similar operations exist in every state in the union. And remember that Mark Obenshain lost the Virginia Attorney General race by less than 900 votes in 2013 out of 2.2 million cast.

And to make voter fraud easier in Virginia, the Democratic controlled General Assembly is passing laws that make it much easier for election riggers to operate. Absentee ballots no longer need witness signatures. One common practices of election riggers is to request an absentee ballot, make copies, and mark them to suit their aims. Then they visit individuals who have requested absentee ballots (yes, a daily list can be purchased from the State Board of Elections). They offer to take the voter’s ballot (in the sealed envelope) and deliver it to the registrar – as a public service, of course. Once they get their hands on the signed envelope, they steam it open, and if the ballot is not favorable to their candidates, they replace the ballot with a counterfeit ballot marked to suit their masters.

Since steaming open ballots takes about five minutes per envelope, another tactic is to collect sealed envelopes from individuals who have a record of voting in Republican primaries and simply fail to deliver the ballots in time for them to be counted.

Sometimes postal employees are in on the rigging. When ballots are mailed back to the registrar from strong Republican areas, an underhanded mail carrier could simply throw the ballot envelopes in a dumpster. In other incidents, baskets of ballot envelopes were “accidentally” set off to the side at a mail processing center and went undiscovered until it was too late.

Democrat operatives are often encouraged to get jobs at nursing homes and then request ballots for incompetent and ill residents who they then “help” vote before returning their ballots for them.

Another tactic is to identify registered voters who regularly fail to vote in elections and then have operatives show up early in the day pretending to be those voters. Democrats in Virginia’s General Assembly have made it much easier to do that by removing the photo ID requirement at the polls.

Another tactic came into play when electoral boards in areas where the vote riggers operated were determining which mailed in ballots to accept and which to reject due to irregularities. If the ballot envelope came in with a bent corner, that was a sign that the fix was in on that ballot and the Democrat members of the board knew not to object to it. I reiterate that this was reportedly done in New Jersey, and I have no direct knowledge of any electoral board member in Virginia being involved in this type of behavior.

Voter fraud is happening. The Heritage Foundation has documented over 1000 instances of voter fraud in the United States during the past 20 years alone.

Protect yourself. Vote in person if at all possible. If not, go to your local Registrar’s office after September 18 and vote “absentee in person.” You no longer need a reason. And you get to make sure your ballot is properly cast. Finally, don’t let anyone else get control of your ballot or your ballot envelope unless you trust them implicitly. If you do fill out a ballot you received in the mail, return your ballot to your Registrar’s office or, on election day, to your regular polling place. It’s the only way to make sure your vote is actually your vote and not the result of an orchestrated effort to manipulate the election and rob you of your vote.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.

Our Democrat controlled General Assembly and our Democrat governor have spent all of 2020 throwing the door wide open to voter fraud in Virginia. They have done it under the smokescreen of the Covid-19 quarantine. They say these are measures designed “to safeguard Virginia’s elections processes from disenfranchisement” when in fact they are doing the opposite. Anyone who opposes them is accused of voter suppression even though the only thing Republicans want to suppress is illegal votes. And when illegal votes are counted, it disenfranchises legal voters because our votes don’t have the full weight of “one person, one vote.” The Democrats’ smokescreen rhetoric reflects the words of the biblical prophet Isaiah (5:20a) – “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…”

The Democrats started out by removing the voter ID requirement. Now someone only has to claim to be a particular voter; they don’t have to prove it. All they need is a utility bill or some other document (that could be stolen from a mailbox or “borrowed” from an elderly person) with the name and address of the voter on it. There is nothing that allows the election officers to determine if the person in front of them is in fact the person they claim to be.

Under the guise of protecting voters from the spread of Covid-19, the Democrats and their allies have won a court case – with the complicity of our Democrat Attorney General – that removes the requirement of having someone witness the voter’s signature when signing an absentee ballot envelope. Now no one knows who actually voted the ballot or whether the voter of record is the person who actually signed the return envelope. Voters no longer need to give a reason for requesting an absentee (mail in) ballot – there were 15 options before. Anyone can ask for an absentee ballot just because they want one.

And now Democrat Senator Janet Howell (Fairfax) and Senator Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria) have put forth SB5120 which puts the absentee ballot process on the honor system. Unfortunately, a lot of people in politics are without honor. This new proposed law restates that no photo ID is required but adds that out-of-state student ID’s are now allowed and that if the voter doesn’t have any kind of ID the voter can simply fill out an affidavit saying they are who they claim to be.

If this bill passes, absentee ballots no longer have to be received by election day, they only have to be postmarked by election day so long as they are received by noon on Friday of election week. But here’s the kicker, under this bill the return envelopes will be prepaid. The post office does not put postmarks on prepaid envelopes, so there is no way to know whether the ballot was mailed on election day or on the day after the election when election day results are known. Unscrupulous political operators have a golden opportunity to change election results.

And the Democrat are slick. In order to get a new law into effect in time for the November elections, the bill would have to pass with an emergency clause. It requires approval by eighty percent of the General Assembly to pass an emergency clause. Democrats know they can’t reach that threshold, so they played the one card that allows them to get what they want. Because prepaid envelopes were involved this became a budget bill. Budget bills can go into effect immediately without an emergency clause. Sure enough, the bill was passed by the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee on an 11 to 5 straight party line vote.

As an aside, the Committee determined that the bill had no financial impact on the state budget because the state was passing all the costs down to the localities to fund – as if the localities are not also suffering the economic penalties of the Democrat governor’s overlong Covid-19 quarantine.

Perhaps the most egregious provision of SB5120 is the institution of drop boxes. Currently, absentee (mail in) ballots have to be returned to the Registrar’s office in person or by mail or to the voter’s regular polling place in person. Now, strategically place “drop boxes” will be placed around each community where anyone can drop in absentee ballots –with no witness signatures – and there is no one to check to see how many ballots each person drops in. This new process is so open to voter fraud that some highly placed Republican senators are calling it the Voter Fraud Act of 2020.

As of this writing, the bill has not passed out of the General Assembly. There is still time for you to contact every Democrat in the General Assembly and tell them not to pass this travesty because it would disenfranchise your vote – the very thing they say this bill is supposed to prevent.

Cordially,
Steve “Doc” Troxel, Ph.D.