Just as people had to die in the American Revolution so others could live free, I can see how stealing elections away from Republicans is acceptable to save our constitutional democratic republic from them, if there's no alternative. Certainly there's no "Second Amendment" alternative of armed resistance, that the gun fetishists would prefer.

If the chances that stealing the election from Republicans would destroy democracy were compellingly less than the chances that Republican election stealing would destroy democracy, the case seems clear. We already know the Republican half of that comparison.

Why the Constitution is Irrelevant:  Perception is reality.  And ignorance is bliss.  This country is no longer guided by the Constitution because of the confluence of two factors.  The media, now corporate owned and controlled, has abdicated its position as seeker and distributor of the truth in favor of maintenance of a status quo that accomplishes nothing except the enrichment their bank accounts.  Just as perversely, the American public has abandoned its civic duty of remaining informed about, and actively participating in the political process.  In fact, the public has sunk even lower than this: they freely choose to willingly be ignorant, and through sheer intellectual laziness have decided that reality-based thinking requires too much effort, and instead turn to faith-based "reasoning" and subjugate themselves to the "authority" of those that "know better" than they do.  The media churns out its loud, bright, and shiny propoganda on a 24/7 basis, and this perception becomes reality when no further effort is then made by anyone to seek any knowledge independently.  The republicans literally are "creating reality", because they are creating and controlling what we see and hear.  And the american public just sits cowering in our bubbles of denial and pray "please, please don't take away my SUV."

I've never recycled a comment before, but this was just too appropriate.  Don't kill me!! :)

You (or those you satirize) are using a cardboard figure of Darwinism to justify political fraud and the rule of the powerful and most corrupt. This goes on too often to let this pass (see extensive literature on "Social Darwinism").

Those interested should start by reading Darwin's chapter on "The Struggle for Existence", Ch.3, Origin of Species:

I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.

You could follow up by reading Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, as an introduction, or Richard Hofstadter's classic, Social Darwinism in American Thought.