And prior to January 6th, 2021?
If you think there was nothing wrong with what maga did on January 6th, how can you condemn lefties for doing much of the same?
It just doesn’t add up. Prior to January 6th, I would’ve been much more supportive of at least some of the Maga movement. Until they became so radicalized by easily disprovable lies told within their own echo chambers.
Maga has been right about a few things. Covid being used as a political tool to influence the election? Very true!
It isolated groups of people and further compartmentalized people into both good and bad data. Bad data that was quick to come up, and extinguished by fact; but largely ignored by those who refused to do the further reading on both sides. The difference came from which group who had the better data or hung on to the bad data.
So when some Republicans representatives began fighting so heavily against any voting alternatives it divided whom was how these groups would vote. And while there is at least some concern or issues with opening up mail-in voting to the public, it would’ve gone better if our politicians actually worked together to safeguard our votes no matter the format. Instead, we drew lines in the sand and format was chosen almost by party line and gave Republicans representatives some benefit of the doubt among their constituents instead of actually trying to figure out who won, the game plan was always to delay as they had been slowly losing the numbers and influence overall by federal and state governments.
Covid gave Republicans that out to further distrust voting methods. And what little voting safeguards they’ve introduced since then will do very little to change that, unfortunately because even they don’t want to dismiss the possibility that, yes, their voting security may backfire and cost them more votes. Which is why registering and confirming voters only takes a name and address on an official document. It’s a softball for their constituents but gives them something to at least possibly backpedal on this idea of widespread voter fraud.
But to my point, which remains, if we do the same thing that lefties do, then we lose our chance to condemn them. Even it is to downplay January 6th.
And while it can be said that lefties rioting also loses their ability to condemn us, both groups are setting dangerous precedents if the only defense to rioting is… “well, at least we didn’t kill any body.”
