The cognitively impaired among us have already started clumsily editing graphs to create a narrative that the midterm loss is a result of electoral fraud. I would feel bad for these poor, unintelligent individuals, but they are spoiling the chances of all of us to get a normal administration in two years. We urgently need the GOP to reform itself based on the lessons learned from this debacle. Instead, some of us are willing to let our politicians off the hook by handing them the convenient smokescreen of fraud.
8 responses to “It Wasn’t Fraud”
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“they are spoiling the chances of all of us to get a normal administration in two years”
By this point, my assumption is that’s what they’re being paid to do.
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Quoth the lady who received two ballots last major election from a giggling poll worker.
It’s not only fraud, to be sure, and anyone lining up behind the wildest scenarios, i.e. anything other than the documented fraud already being litigated, should back off. That’s bait.
Florida is a decent model for how badly the GOP establishment got the bum’s rush: not as bad as the demoralizers and accelerationists imagine, but bad enough.
As for the “poor wee mental inferiors” V.A.P.: That schtick is getting old.
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The voters didn’t turn out for us. 20 million Republican voters decided to stay home. The only way forward is to understand why and change.
Let’s say it’s fraud. The three branches of government, being controlled by the Republicans, cannot stop the kind of fraud that throws the election completely to the Democrats. Something is clearly not working. Something the Republicans are not doing right, even in the fraud scenario. This is a mess-up by the GOP of humongous proportions.
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You’ve assumed the conclusion:
The voters didn’t turn out for us. 20 million Republican voters decided to stay home. The only way forward is to understand why and change.
Unless fraud is not a significant factor, the claim that the only way forward is to understand why and change is false.
Everyone vastly underestimated the enemy’s turn at bat, and overestimated the capacity to manage the competing oligarchies at both the State and federal level.
Some states managed to both deal with the fraud, tame the aristos, corporate and bureaucratic both, and hold the line.
Here’s where we agree:
We need understand what went right, what feeds despair, what the enemy used against us, and how to combat the different means of cheating employed.
We learned this month that 2024 was the last “if we just get enough of the legitimate vote out we can defeat the margin of fraud” election on offer. It is no good offering better candidates and swankier policies to vote for if they cannot win.
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