There are people who have a nearly pathological need to believe no election fraud occurred in the 2020 election.
I surely didn’t want to believe it…initially.
Some of those people are like me, unwilling to believe this terrible state of affairs have occured in this Republic of ours.
Some of us are totally against the existence of Donald Trump, and believe that weak minded people are grasping at straws in our refusal to accept Joe Biden got 81 million votes, even though he rarely left his basement, and could get no more than a handful of people when he did.
Some of us think we know more than others, and are going to bind to that no matter what our eyes or ears tell us. These are generally the kind of people who might see a clip of people stuffing so many ballots into a box that they spill over and fall on the ground, and when they hear one Leftist, in cahoots with the Leftists at the Communist front group Protecting Democracy saying they did nothing wrong, they latch onto that and proclaim “See? I told you that ‘2000 Mules” is a total fraud perpetrated by grifters Dinesh D’Souza and True The Vote. For some reason this appears to be the most common variant here on Free Republic.
And some of us are Leftists or RINOs, and fully understand that fraud occurred, but wish to gaslight everyone to muddy the waters.
And lastly, there are some who just want to sow chaos and dissension. In other words, trolls.
Some of us think we know more than others, and are going to bind to that no matter what our eyes or ears tell us.
For much of my life I was unaware of this phenomena. I have only come to a larger awareness of it in the last few years, and now I consider it to be one of the most difficult problems rational men face.
How do you present information to people in such a way that they will consider it objectively? In most cases, if it goes against "conventional wisdom" it is simply rejected, no matter how much proof exists to support it.
We see this phenomena in the public's acceptance of "Global Warming" and "Trans" stuff.
I acquired what I consider to be good insight on this phenomena when I learned of the Asch conformity experiments. What these psychological experiments revealed is that 80% of people will claim to believe something if they think this is what the majority believe.
The media-lie-system takes advantage of this characteristic of human nature by creating the illusion that a "majority" of people believe something, and they do this because they know full well that many people will then adjust their beliefs to conform to what they perceive as the majority.
This is how liberals stay in power. That media-lie-system is a weapon or a tool to keep them in power. If they didn't have it, Liberals would be a weak minority in elected office.
But yes, there are a lot of people that want to believe something so strongly, that they will simply reject anything that doesn't support what they wish to believe.
And we have a lot of them on Free Republic.
Election fraud has probably occurred in every election ever held. In the adjacent county east of us - with a population of about 8,000 - a man went to jail about 15 years ago for vote buying.
Same thing happened in a rural county south of us; one or two went to jail for vote buying within the last 10 years.
It happens.
Exactly how much corruption there was in the 2020 presidential election is unknown to me; probably a lot. There was also a large corruption of the 2020 election when Democrats schemed, again, to launder federal budget monies to influence voting patterns.
That said, we need to understand the significance of the fact that perhaps over half of Americans of voting age have been rendered incapable of voting intelligently because we have lost the cultural wars that few on our side wanted to fight.
Dumb people don't usually vote smart; they don't live smart. Hate to say it. It will not be easy to overcome this. There will be a time in the future, if we are not there already, when democrats can win on the national level by simply promising dumb people dumb things.