12-04-2020, 10:24 AM
(12-04-2020, 10:17 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: As with all allegations of fraud, an investigation should be done. As much as I dislike Trump, I don’t want our political system undermined in order to defeat him. With that being said, there have been multiple recounts that have still shown a Biden victory, in a red state. On top of this, how do you reconcile with the idea that the election was rigged when the Republicans did very well in the House and the Senate? Those representatives are celebrating their victories when those votes were counted on the same ballots. In order to believe this idea, you have to also believe Biden is a master con-artist who has duped not only the election officials and various law enforcement agencies of the most powerful country in the world, but also the citizens.
You believe Biden to be cognitively unfit, so how do you sit with this idea?
We really need to take a step back and look at things psychologically. What we are seeing is the creation of schema that are intended to remedy the cognitive dissonance that Trump supporters are dealing with. Their arguments are illogical in an objective way, but they help support an alternate reality that they need in order to reconcile their subjective truths because the objective facts make them too uncomfortable. They've been doing this since 2015, and I wouldn't expect it to end any time soon.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
