Posted on 11/22/2020 5:14:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
... Before Election Day I warned many people that polling showed a majority of Donald Trump's supporters believed he would win by a landslide. They thought this primarily because these voters consumed information in a closed ecosystem that wasn't giving them facts or an accurate assessment of the current political situation. The closed ecosystem included some conservative media they spent a lot of time watching and listening to, as well as a homogenous social media enclave that affirmed these biases.
So, in aftermath of Election Day, many Trump supporters were confronted with a reality much different from what they thought was going to happen.
Trump, and other leaders in politics and some conservative media, are doing incredible damage to our democracy and the bonds we share as Americans by pushing conspiracy theories instead of overcoming biases.
Trump is playing on the biases and fears of his supporters, not speaking truth about the election outcome and helping destructive conspiracies root ever deeper in our country. By doing so, he is undermining our Republic and its democratic institutions.
Yes, we will get through this moment, but we have much work to do in reforming and rebuilding the infrastructure of democracy and in choosing leaders at all levels and on all platforms who help people see their biases and help them overcome their prejudices. We can do this through hard work and healing.
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This article is insanity from start to finish. The delusional must be dealt with because, necessarily, they will insist that ALL repeat their delusion as Truth. They have to. It is delusion until YOU endorse it.
If they think he enflamed them now.....wait until the attorneys file the full briefs and Trump wins.......
Watching their breakdown will be epic!
Never trust the media losers...ever. If they say it is sunny outside...look out the window first. These psychopathic liars need to be crushed. They should ridiculed wherever they come out from under a rock 24/7. These seditious traitors deserve no less. No quarter.
I didn’t think he would win by a landslide, but I was wrong.
LOL....
I rely on my weather rock on the back deck....if it’s wet, it’s raining, warm, sunshine.....etc.....
Relying on the media hacks for factual news is like the 1940’s Germans listening to Goebble...
No one Hates the TRUTH-seeker or him who speaks TRUTH like those who HATE TRUTH!
Projection.
Uh-huh.
Sure thing Matt.
They stick a knife in your back and twist it. Then they demand that you show grace and unity as you bleed out.
Trump hasnt enflamed them enough...
This gent has nary a clue of reality. In New York...we would openly call him a “D—B F—K, butt wipe!!!
Biden has an enormous amount of power here. He can step up and say we need an audit, that he shares the concerns of at least 1/3 of the country.
But he won’t because he doesn’t so he allows the press to blame Trump. He is like a caricature of any horrible wimpy leader.
“Trump’s supporters believed he would win by a landslide. “
He did.
Hey Dems....payback is hell......you started this in 2016 saying Trump’s election was illegitimate......
Jus’ sayin........
We are coming after you Mr. Dowd. You haven’t seen inflamed yet. You’ll know much better when you burn in hell.
So, we have now heard Mickey Mouse’s opinion of the election. I was hoping he would squeak up.
“Trump could have eased election tensions - instead he enflamed them: OPINION”
Title is true, I won’t read past that.
It brings up a very good point, one I’ve had on the top of my mind since the election. Trump went all in on claiming they were trying to steal the election. That is very “enflaming.”
Why would he do that?
One, he knows it to be true.
That makes sense to me. I know what I saw on election day and before. I do not believe Biden got more votes than Trump.
Two, he’s upset, bitter, and just wants to undermine Biden’s legitimacy, even if in undermines Americans’ faith in their election system and government significantly.
Not a chance. Trump would never do that. He’s a patriot, he loves his country, and he would get no benefit from that, it would ultimately be revealed and he would be discredited.
Therefore, Trump has the proof.
I think I even know when he saw the irrefutable proof. It was Saturday morning after the election, when he tweeted: “I won this election, by a lot!” That was less than one hour before CNN, and then quickly the rest of the MSM, called the election for Biden.
“They stick a knife in your back and twist it. Then they demand that you show grace and unity as you bleed out.”
They pour gasoline all over everything, they light a match, hold up the match and say, “Time to heal!”
No, the mean for us to HEEL.
“More gaslighting.”
It’s projecting. They always accuse you of what they are about to do. They are about to ramp up tensions and inflame their low information, brain washed followers.
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