@Moonbat said in How seriously does the Trump team really take the Dominion conspiracy theory?:
@Loki said in How seriously does the Trump team really take the Dominion conspiracy theory?:
The massive threat to democracy and national security is over. Boy was that a close call, I can emerge from under my desk. We should all be dancing in the streets.
I heard we set back the nuclear clock. Huzzah!
I don't quite understand your position Loki. Do you think that significant numbers of people believing the electoral system is rigged, isn't a threat to democracy? Looks to me that this election cycle has already done significant damage to democracy. The degree to which your population is polarised, and to which politics has been subsumed by identity is pretty frightening. I don't understand the blasé attitude in the face of such stark changes to norms surrounding political disagreements. I see of course that these issues predate this election cycle but they have surely worsened to a previously unthinkable degree.
Trump was certainly a lightning rod, and revealed the asses of a lot of haters. But you don't have to blame it on him, unless you want to.
As far as rigged elections, I don't need to merely believe, I know for fact that our society was made up of millions of people who would have considered breaking any rule to be righteous, as long as the goal was to get Trump out of office. At that point, you trust the security of the systems and the infrastructure around elections. Let's not be princesses about trust in electoral processes. They are broken to the extent any TDS sufferer thinks they could be broken. And they would go to their grave feeling good about it. That's just fact, I shouldn't even need to say it out loud.
