...following a preexisting and settled constitutional process, putting laws in place to govern behavior, and then following the laws.

In the 2020 election, those laws pertaining to how we run elections -- representing the will of the people -- were violated with abandon in every single swing state (as well as some others). The constitutional process was violated, as well, particularly with respect to the legislature's primacy in establishing election law.

Since those laws and the constitutional process are in place to protect election integrity, many people's trust in the results of this election is now irreparably broken. It could have been preserved, had sensible calls for true audits been heeded or had courts actually considered the arguments made by those contesting the results. Instead, they were just shouted down and thwarted by people -- including judges -- who simply didn't want to hear it, thereby layering more suspicion on the huge pile of existing doubt.

Given what transpired prior to the election with Dem efforts to weaken election integrity (which is the tell to begin with), this was always going to be the case. Many people, including myself, were warning about it on this very board prior to the election. No one should come back now feigning surprise that people don't trust an election that was corrupted before it even began, much less considering what happened during and after the election. Nor should anyone be surprised about the extreme examples we've seen of people trying to protect and enforce their rights following such a corrupted election. The miracle is that we haven't seen more violence.

You are not "doubling down on democracy", as the election itself had manifold examples of law-breaking -- i.e., the undemocratic overturning of the people's will. And despite all efforts to suppress information and opinion flow about it, tens of millions of Americans know it.



[Post edited by Los Angeles Hoo at 01/25/2021 11:47AM]