“Just because you choose not to believe it or don’t understand it or are ignorant of the information doesn’t make it untrue.”
The new motto of conservatism. I only believe things that I wish were true. I block everything else out or point to truly fantastical conspiracy theories. And also, the Pols that I like are all playing 3-D chess. When it looks like they screwed up, that’s an elaborate multi-part trap.
We’ve devolved to wishful thinking and hero worship.
People get so invested in believing certain things especially when it comes to Trump they simply won’t consider anything else.
From election night until now Trump and a lot of his key supporters have preached about the voting machines being rigged or hacked, I believed too at one time.
I spent 38 years in the IT world, the last 20 doing router and switch configurations using Cisco Systems equipment, I worked at one of their support centers for almost 2 years.
I know what it takes to hack thru routers and firewalls.
I have no doubt the elections around the country have been rigged, just not the way many of these people believe, by challenging the conventional thinking the true believers resort to insults, which is fine.
The other thing I believe is that not every election a MAGA candidate loses is rigged or stolen, some are just bad candidates and in some cases the MAGA movement is toxic and people want no part of it, New Hampshire appears to be one of those places.
I also believe in order for the Republican Party to remain relevant there must be a truce between the MAGA wing and Establishment wing of the party, otherwise Republicans will continue to lose elections they should be winning.
That infuriates a lot of people on FR.