Election Challenges, Protests, Conspiracy Theories, and Moral Panics

[GMDino]

(12-10-2020, 12:54 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: The number of ethical issues will put Biden in a delicate situation. How do you direct your DOJ to pursue some of the clearly illegal actions of the Trump administration without making Republicans view it solely as a witch hunt


Lacking standing, requesting relief outside the power of the court, having the incorrect defendants, not alleging any actual problem beyond wanting to change the election results. These lawsuits are just a mess. 

The one that always gets me is PA where two Trump voters in York and another county claim a violation of the equal protections clause because their counties didn't allow them to cure their mail in ballots but other counties that Biden won did. They list the other counties, not their own that actually denied them the chance to cure, as defendants and request that the relief for the violation is that those counties have to throw out millions of votes rather than their two counties allow them to cure their ballots lol.

The entire thing is a farce and the real damage is the Trump supporters who, as usual, don't understand and actually believe the Democrats cheated somehow.

Its the delusions I worry about.

For all the whining and marches in 2016 now we have people who say, out loud, they will shoot people who disagree with them.  Are they a small, vocal minority?  Of course.  Are they having their views and beliefs reinforced by a man sharing conspiracy reports from "news" sites like OANN and Newsmax?  Absolutely.

I have too many people I consider friends sharing those as "truth".

One, just yesterday posted this:




They still think the SC will intervene and reverse the election results because of "cheating".

This is why I've been asking Republicans who are NOT delusional to speak up and tell their fellow party members that this is over and to not be fooled.

I just don't see it happening.  Most have either disappeared or continue to say "let the courts decide" as if all of this is normal.