Reply #6: Don't blame your dad.... [View All]

[SmokingJacket]

It's almost impossible to get your brain around what just happened. I feel like some of us can do it because we've been reading, reading, reading for the last two or four or whatever years, and have seen this bizarre THING happening: the death of truth.

Fact is, the electoral system is broken, and I hate to say it, maybe forever. The machines are made by a company with strong ties to one party, and we the people have no way of knowing what goes on in them without examining the source code, which is a tightly controlled corporate secret. Hello, WHAT??? Not a conspiracy theory, a FACT. Not only that, but absentee, provisional, and other kind of ballots are mishandled constantly because there's no consensus on how to deal with them. You have to trust the repubs not to cheat in this situation, because we've failed to make cheating impossible. Trust the party that lied to us about WMD, etc? Sorry, not me.

Your dad sounds too worried about his own situation to have absorbed the change that has occurred.

Frankly, all too many people are unwilling to seriously consider "tinfoil hat" because they're afraid of looking nutty. Don't forget what Hitler said about the Big Lie:

"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. "

There you have it.

Sorry for the long post but your post really moved me.