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I hope I live long enough to see this "Election Denialism" bullshit go away. And by go away, I hope that someday we figure out a way to marginalize this whole denialism of reality trend so that it is nothing but a fringe idea that can safely be ignored (though we would also hopefully stay vigilant in case this kind of thing were to happen again).
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The more people see public figures deny reality (Bush, Trump, DeSantis, everyone at Fox, Sarah Sanders, MGT, etc.) and be rewarded for it, the more people will attempt to build platforms on denialism.
It's always been around, just fortunately not as amplified as it currently is.
Prior to 2008, it was all the black box voting people (typically left leaning) who thought the system was flipping votes, but it was a small minority of people with absolutely no megaphone. (https://web.archive.org/web/20041119010450/https://blackboxvoting.org/)
It's just been extremely amplified because of Trump and his crew, and the pandemic. Where lots of jurisdictions changed voting rules to allow for safe voting, and people freaked out. They sort of lump those (changing state election laws) with election/voting fraud. Which sort of sucks because it does really convolute the issue.
Like, I can sort of see why groups would challenge laws that change voting rules outside the windows in which they are legally allowed (but I also see why judges would side on the States side for pandemic safety).. I can't for the life of me justify claims of rampant fraud... as there is literally no evidence, and multiple recounts/audits have fallen within acceptable margins of error.