11-25-2020, 05:23 PM
(11-25-2020, 02:26 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: A mere 3% of voters for President Donald Trump think President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 election, while 73% think the incumbent was the victor, according to a CNBC/Change Research poll.
As Trump repeatedly loses vote challenges in court as his lawyers fail to prove wrongdoing in the election count, two-thirds of his supporters think he should never concede to Biden.
The findings underscore the harm Trump’s unsubstantiated claims have done to confidence in the U.S. electoral system.
What you're missing here is that Trump's action is just one step in a long process.
The electoral system was already broken, as the entire media organization of the U.S. chose to abandon their historical role as objective (more or less) reporters of the news, and openly opposed Trump. When the media openly oppose one of the two political parties, that party can't have a fair election. This is why Trump is able to get away with claiming the election was stolen. Because it was stolen, but far earlier than election day, and not by anyone messing with ballots.
Of course, the media themselves did this because under the old system, Donald Trump never would have been the Republican presidential candidate in the first place. Under the old system, each party only nominated someone reasonable, someone who plays by the rules. Trump wasn't a politician and didn't play by the rules, and Republicans broke the old rules by nominating him.
This is how it goes in a Crisis. The system becomes increasingly unstable, and every reaction to this leads to yet more instability.
This process will continue until everything spirals out of control and the country is in a civil war or a revolutionary war. The only thing that can "save" us from this is a major external war, against China or Russia.
I think you, and the members of this forum in general, are making a mistake when you try to root for one side in this conflict. You have no idea where this is headed, and there's no way to even predict whether the outcome of any battle is good or bad in the long run. Maybe Biden winning the election results in Trump refusing to leave office and we have a successful fascist takeover of the U.S. Maybe Trump leaves, and Biden in time takes us to war against Russia, and this ends in nuclear war. The outcome of all this is currently unknowable.