This article perfectly illustrates the narrative battle of extremes gripping our country. In Trump's bombastic surface skimming style, he claims the election was stolen which turns off voters, as it should. Progressives honed the "election denier" narrative to such a degree that an honest evaluation of what did happen in 2020 is crushed…
This article perfectly illustrates the narrative battle of extremes gripping our country. In Trump's bombastic surface skimming style, he claims the election was stolen which turns off voters, as it should. Progressives honed the "election denier" narrative to such a degree that an honest evaluation of what did happen in 2020 is crushed and all who question are cast out of polite society as threats to democracy. As always the truth is in the middle and as of late, completely ignored.
The "election denier" narrative serves to dampen free speech and hide the serious shortcomings of the 2020 election. Those shortcomings and the subsequent lack of honest debate are actual threats to democracy. Trump's rants are equally unhelpful in communicating what actually happened. Supporters of both sides line up in battle, democracy suffers.
Actions in the courts before 2020 had a massive impact on the election. Covid was weaponized to effect long sought changes to election law. Mail in voting was pushed and occurred in many battlegrounds without identity verification. By the way voter ID is not racism. Judges decided voting policies when many state laws required it to be done by legislators. Private money from the likes of Zuckerberg funded privatization of election offices by partisans something that had never happened before. If you doubt the impact this had on the election, compare election results and cure ratios in neighboring counties with similar demographics with one county being run by private actors using Zuckerberg money and the other under normal election officers. There were inconsistent applications of election law favoring democrat candidates. Ballot harvesting clearly happened in certain battleground states. And we cannot leave out censorship by big tech who clearly tipped the balance in favor of Biden. It is becoming clear that bad actors within the government contributed to this censorship. This folks is an insane threat to democracy.
In summary, articles like this are an insult to the intelligence of the American people and only serve to widen the divide. The 2020 election was a complete mess. Let's be honest and critically evaluate.
Your assertions about the 2020 election being "a mess" are based on what hard evidence? Your cavalier use of "clearly" does not make it so. I do agree with your last line, but I don't think you do.
I would recommend reading Mollie Hemingway's "Rigged" which has hard evidence to support the assertions included above. The elections were a mess in states that made significant changes to election practices shortly before the election. Bureaucracy doesn't move that fast.
Legacy and social media censored information and tipped the election in favor of the Democrats. If you have not read the Twitter Files, I highly suggest doing so. Bari Weiss's and Matt Taibbi's supporting articles are also worthwhile. Both are on Substack. Did these actions hand the presidency to Biden? We will never know for certain but it was clear election interference. After you read it all, I think you will agree that the use of "clear" in this sentence is correct.
Am not exactly certain what your point is about the last line. I am guessing you mean I would not accept statements/facts contrary to my own opinion? My opinions are based on research and one thing I learned is that the talking point that the 2020 elections were "the most secure in history" is a fairy tale.
I have not read the Twitter Files but will on your recommendation. Every substantiated example of election meddling and fraudulent voting that I have seen (including several successful prosecutions) were by Republicans. Every one. So I find that even the suggestion of "tipping the election toward Biden" is laughable. But yes, I'll check out Taibbi's stuff. (Generally, I've not been impressed with the objectivity of some of his previous articles.)
This article perfectly illustrates the narrative battle of extremes gripping our country. In Trump's bombastic surface skimming style, he claims the election was stolen which turns off voters, as it should. Progressives honed the "election denier" narrative to such a degree that an honest evaluation of what did happen in 2020 is crushed and all who question are cast out of polite society as threats to democracy. As always the truth is in the middle and as of late, completely ignored.
The "election denier" narrative serves to dampen free speech and hide the serious shortcomings of the 2020 election. Those shortcomings and the subsequent lack of honest debate are actual threats to democracy. Trump's rants are equally unhelpful in communicating what actually happened. Supporters of both sides line up in battle, democracy suffers.
Actions in the courts before 2020 had a massive impact on the election. Covid was weaponized to effect long sought changes to election law. Mail in voting was pushed and occurred in many battlegrounds without identity verification. By the way voter ID is not racism. Judges decided voting policies when many state laws required it to be done by legislators. Private money from the likes of Zuckerberg funded privatization of election offices by partisans something that had never happened before. If you doubt the impact this had on the election, compare election results and cure ratios in neighboring counties with similar demographics with one county being run by private actors using Zuckerberg money and the other under normal election officers. There were inconsistent applications of election law favoring democrat candidates. Ballot harvesting clearly happened in certain battleground states. And we cannot leave out censorship by big tech who clearly tipped the balance in favor of Biden. It is becoming clear that bad actors within the government contributed to this censorship. This folks is an insane threat to democracy.
In summary, articles like this are an insult to the intelligence of the American people and only serve to widen the divide. The 2020 election was a complete mess. Let's be honest and critically evaluate.
Your assertions about the 2020 election being "a mess" are based on what hard evidence? Your cavalier use of "clearly" does not make it so. I do agree with your last line, but I don't think you do.
I would recommend reading Mollie Hemingway's "Rigged" which has hard evidence to support the assertions included above. The elections were a mess in states that made significant changes to election practices shortly before the election. Bureaucracy doesn't move that fast.
Legacy and social media censored information and tipped the election in favor of the Democrats. If you have not read the Twitter Files, I highly suggest doing so. Bari Weiss's and Matt Taibbi's supporting articles are also worthwhile. Both are on Substack. Did these actions hand the presidency to Biden? We will never know for certain but it was clear election interference. After you read it all, I think you will agree that the use of "clear" in this sentence is correct.
Am not exactly certain what your point is about the last line. I am guessing you mean I would not accept statements/facts contrary to my own opinion? My opinions are based on research and one thing I learned is that the talking point that the 2020 elections were "the most secure in history" is a fairy tale.
I have not read the Twitter Files but will on your recommendation. Every substantiated example of election meddling and fraudulent voting that I have seen (including several successful prosecutions) were by Republicans. Every one. So I find that even the suggestion of "tipping the election toward Biden" is laughable. But yes, I'll check out Taibbi's stuff. (Generally, I've not been impressed with the objectivity of some of his previous articles.)
No doubt Republicans have done bad things too. They are politicians after all!
If you feel like it sharing your opinion of the Twitter files, please do.