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34. You don't have to get conspiratorial, they cheated in the usual and obvious ways

Without speculating on fudging the numbers somehow, they spent massively on propaganda, lied relentlessly, made up wild accusations, distracted and confused voters, and their funding included foreign money and so on.

Then they distorted the actual electorate by requiring voter id, selectively purging voter rolls, intimidating selected populations about the consequences of "voter fraud", shifted resources to create longer lines in select precincts, etc.

Then they also benefit from other undemocratic aspects of our system, notably the electoral college.

Bottom line is that instead of reflecting the will of the people, the results reflect the single-day opinion of those who were allowed to vote and for whom voting was not made overly difficult.

This is how we end up with an emerging dictator thatvthe majority strongly disapproves of. This doesn't happen in a functioning democracy, or if it does, such a leader is kicked out pronto.

Doesn't mean they actually flipped cast votes. I have no doubt they would if they could and felt it necessary, but there's no need to speculate.


My biggest reason for skepticism as to actual vote-flipping is that this clown crowd of incompetence has never demonstrated enough skill to pull such a thing off without it being ridiculously obvious. It's just not their m.o. they screw up all over the place and do their crimes obviously, the bully people into overlooking it.