Let the investigations play out.

All of which are the exact reasons why I argue that the investigations need to be allowed to take place. I was out of town for work and pretty isolated during election day and the days after and spent the past few days catching up as to what exactly is going on. What I see are a few claims that I do believe require some sort of explanation at the very least. Biden receiving pretty much one sided help from the media and social media is one thing, they are private companies and while it's distasteful for them to use their mass information platforms to back a certain candidate they are free to do that. Believing that actual election ballots were fraudulent to the tune of anywhere from hundreds to hundreds of thousands is a whole other ball game. Yes it's still going to infuriate plenty of folks that the social media and news giants all pretty much collectively kept their foot on Trumps throat while extending their hands to Biden and that outrage is justified in my opinion. However, having millions of folks believe that AND believe that the actual polls were rigged and countless illegal ballots were cast as part of some conspiracy is a recipe for disaster.

The best thing for this country to do is to provide transparency and say listen we understand that millions of Americans believe something fishy has gone on and we are investigating to either prove or disprove those claims. That's a win for both Democrats and Republicans. I listened to Joe Biden's victory speech and he called for unity and a time for healing, well you simply cannot do either of those if virtually half of the voting block of this nation thinks you flat out cheated and got away with it. Investigations provide the Biden Administration and the Democrat Party the ammo to tell the "other side" look we didn't cheat we won fair and square and the investigations into your claims otherwise have proven that. You won in 2016 and we won in 2020, that's how democracy works. It also provides closure to the RATIONAL Conservatives who are honest enough to say ok we thought something fishy was going on and it was investigated by Trumps own hand picked legal team and it turns out nothing happened. Sure they may have found a few hundred invalid ballots or something but there wasn't some massive conspiracy of millions of illegal ballots dropped off in the middle of the night or whatever.

Now yes you are going to get those who aren't going to hear it no matter what happens. There are plenty of folks out there who believe this entire election was one huge conspiracy mess and the only thing that would make them happy is to re-do the entire election, as I said you can't appeal to everyone but you can appeal to some. The end goal is not to ensure Biden is in office or Trump is in office but rather to get at least SOME of those 71 million people to believe in the legitimacy of the election process. The reason I say that is because out of everyone I've spoken to from the hardcore Trump supporter who has a MAGA tattoo on his arm to the normal guy who just happened to vote for Trump I have yet to meet ONE person who has said *shrug* we lost it happens. There is something terribly wrong with that and if anybody honestly wishes to make a real effort to bring this country back together then you simply cannot just ignore that.

And for those claiming it's wasted money and time chasing ghosts or whatever then I'm fine with that. Ensuring that Americans believe our election process is genuine is absolutely a justified spending of our tax dollars in my opinion. We need to stop thinking about the here and now and understand the future. Our Democratic Republic is the backbone of our nation here in America and if half of the voting block here genuinely believes that the election process is corrupted on this massive scale then this country is doomed and there is no turning around after this. Folks need to seriously stop thinking of the here and now and understand that the NATION is more important than "haha Trump/Biden lost lets point our fingers and laugh at all those people". Whoever is in the White House is temporary, they'll be gone in 4 or 8 years they matter WAY less than the Republic itself and the only way for the Republic itself to survive is to ensure the PEOPLE believe that the election process is legitimate and not some "democracy on paper" nonsense like some other nations pull.

 

Which is absolutely great and a huge positive for the country. People should vote, it's one of the most important things we should be doing as Americans and I believe everyone has a civic duty to do so. Seeing record numbers of American voters this go around is great but what is even more important than the fact that more people voted than ever before is to ensure that the PEOPLE themselves BELIEVE more people actually voted than ever before. The single most damaging thing to this country would be for half it to to genuinely believe that a record number of votes for cast without a record number of Americans actually voting. If we move forward with half the nation believing that then this country is over.

Whether they should or should not believe that is irrelevant, they do. We have to show them.

 

I'm with you on that. I personally believe Trump won't accept anything other than victory no matter what happens with these investigations. I believe he will fall into the camp of "even if the investigations prove nothing it's because it's all a huge conspiracy against me and they mixed fake ballots with real ones or whatever and hid the evidence and everyone is in on it I'm still President". And he won't shut up about it either and he may end up having to be escorted out of the White House or at the very least he will leave peacefully then spend the next 4 years riling up his base and run again in 2024. Either way I highly doubt Trump is going to fade into the background and retire respectfully like President's are supposed to do, he's not going anywhere whether he remains in the White House or not. And yes he will have a huge swath of supporters likely in the tens of millions who will stick with him and his narrative whether it's factually true or not.

Once again though, they aren't the target audience, and Trump is nowhere near the target audience I don't care what Trump believes I care what the people believe. President's are temporary, they matter very little in the grand scheme of things they'll be gone in 4 or 8 years regardless of who they are. The Republic is what matters and the Republic is the people. We need the PEOPLE, at least most of them, to genuinely believe in the integrity of the election process here if we want this fragile nation of ours to survive. Yes Trump is going to kick and scream at any outcome other than him remaining President, and yes he will have millions of people following him echoing those sentiments, but if we allow the investigations to play out and present the results then we'll have at least get SOME of those 71 million Americans who voted for Trump to say ok the election was genuine and we just lost. They'll believe in the integrity of the election and that's what matters and that's a win. If we ignore them all and just give zero credence to any of these concerns of allegations then you're going to have ALL of those 71 million Americans, both the rational AND the irrational ones, believing the election is fraudulent and that would be devastating to the nation.