What I don't get is if the electoral process is so corrupt and fraudulent, why even have one? Why not just stage old fashioned "coups" like 3rd world countries do?
I don't believe for a second the electoral process in the United States is as corrupt and fraudulent as it is lead to believe by all the theorists out there spurned on by of all people, the current president himself....
There are many layers of protection put into the electoral process to negate such things.....if these were not in place or were as flawed as some are lead to believe, each and every election held would not be legal and justified....that just can't be the reality.
People don't realize the actual vote is pretty hard to corrupt. In most places, there is now a paper trail, so machines count them with a scan, but the machine counts are correlated back against hand counts to be sure the machine is scanning them properly. The machines produce a list that is checked against voter roles and for duplicates. There isn't even a central database for the results. The counts are called in by actual humans. The system is so decentralized that it would take a massive operation to change the vote on the smallest of states, leaving very obvious trails of illegal activity.
To steal an election, you need to use a massive misinformation campaign through things like social media that can pump propaganda, which is what Russia and maybe China have been doing with hackers and AI bots. You can also use misdirection mailers that do things like tell people the vote is on a wrong day. You can intimidate voters, suppress registration efforts, or screw up the mail system. The funny thing is those are all things we know the Republicans did, yet they are calling fraud, lol!
Trump's keystone lawyer team has yet to actually present any fraud in court, and Juliani actually said in court that they were not claiming any fraud. So the only fraud is looney toon characters like ZRXMAX374 running around squawking like chicken little.
If the Democrats did steal the election, we should be very worried because they managed to corrupt a completely decentralized system and did it without leaving a shred of evidence behind. That would basically take magic. I am always amazed at how when people are surprised by the outcome of something, you can feed them almost anything, and they will believe it. The bottom line is Typhoid Trump got thousands of civilians killed and put this country through a crazy ride, and people were basically sick of it.
I think Trump has a mythical status with a lot of people who always root for the outlaw. The truth is, he is a common, not so smart thug who bullies people into letting him get away with anything. Republicans figured he was the one to break through obstacles like the constitution and reestablish absolute rich people, mostly White supremacy in the USA. But Trump did not realize that common big-city thuggery does not work in DC, where the smartest people in the world entertain themselves by looking at every detail of people in power. So I think it's not that the Democrats won the election; it's that they shut Trump down thug machine right in its tracks that people can't believe. Cheaters don't believe you can win without cheating too, lol.
The Democrats set up a Trump team tasked with predicting Trump's every move to stealing this election, and it looks like they slammed every door. That's how they identified Trump corrupting the post office early enough to get Democratic voters to deliver our votes rather than trusting the mail.
Pretty impressive for Democrats.
www.pewresearch.org
Even after the pub leaning SCOTUS said no?
