It strikes me that for a national election to be truly stolen, it must be a reasonably close contest. If "the steal" was a 100% slam dunk, why then all the extraordinary and desperate efforts to keep Trump off the ballot and otherwise take him out of action?
Reasonable question. Everything this fraud's administration has done elicits reasonable questions that will never be answered by anything other than obfuscation, lies and subterfuge. And then, jail or cancelling for asking them.
Good observation, however, there is another explanation for the obvious lawfare tactics. I think mass formation (psychosis) is the main reason. It's like group think on steroids.
Mass formation of the decision makers is the unintended consequence of Propaganda. When members of a government believe their own lies, and enforce those lies among their group, bad policies and decisions are made.
Group think limits the information that gets to the top because only yes men are at the top. For example, believing that Ukraine was winning made it seem reasonable to keep sending more billions and risking nuclear armageddon. Information to the contrary was not allowed to be spoken.
When the leaders of the 3rd Reich were hiding in their bunkers while the Russians were on the outskirts of Berlin, Mr Hitler and his generals were strategizing using armies they didn't even have at the end. They were completely delusional. This is why propaganda will always harm a country far more than it could ever help. It makes leaders delusional.
This regime isn't merely flirting with the loss of legitimacy. They lost it it some time ago. In 2020 if we're looking for a recent signpost.
It strikes me that for a national election to be truly stolen, it must be a reasonably close contest. If "the steal" was a 100% slam dunk, why then all the extraordinary and desperate efforts to keep Trump off the ballot and otherwise take him out of action?
Reasonable question. Everything this fraud's administration has done elicits reasonable questions that will never be answered by anything other than obfuscation, lies and subterfuge. And then, jail or cancelling for asking them.
Good observation, however, there is another explanation for the obvious lawfare tactics. I think mass formation (psychosis) is the main reason. It's like group think on steroids.
Mass formation of the decision makers is the unintended consequence of Propaganda. When members of a government believe their own lies, and enforce those lies among their group, bad policies and decisions are made.
Group think limits the information that gets to the top because only yes men are at the top. For example, believing that Ukraine was winning made it seem reasonable to keep sending more billions and risking nuclear armageddon. Information to the contrary was not allowed to be spoken.
When the leaders of the 3rd Reich were hiding in their bunkers while the Russians were on the outskirts of Berlin, Mr Hitler and his generals were strategizing using armies they didn't even have at the end. They were completely delusional. This is why propaganda will always harm a country far more than it could ever help. It makes leaders delusional.