Election Challenges, Protests, Conspiracy Theories, and Moral Panics

[*Nately120*]

(12-11-2020, 01:14 PM)Au165 Wrote: Quick question, does anyone not think that if the Republicans lose the senate seats in Georgia they are going to sue to try and have those results thrown out?

I don't see why they would accept it.  Denying a loss for republicans is a win-win.  First off you can pretend you won, and second whether you won or not your supporters are beginning to expect you to fight a loss, regardless.  Saying that an election was fair and that democrats weren't cheating is loser talk, now. Isn't it? If you lose you have to fight it, and if you win you have to point out that you won even though the other side was cheating their asses off. There is absolutely no downside for them claiming the GA election was a fraud-riddled farce, win or lose.

Perhaps I'm going overboard, but the GOP let Trump get his foot in the door and he's turned one of the major political parties into a conspiracy-spouting, everyone is out to get us, the country is silencing us party that is more akin to a lunatic fringe than a mainstream political party that is going to win roughly 50% of the time just because.

We let a major party turn into a conspiracy-fueled mess, and tens of millions of voters all ok with it because hey, it's a real political party...how nuts could they be?  Crazy people are democrats or one of those "can't win" parties, right?

We didn't change the channel, so the channel changed us.