This is what I mean about intellectual arrogance. You think they are trying to overturn a legit election. They think they election was illegitimate and stolen. That Biden cheated. Just like people said Trump cheated in 2020. I think Biden cheated as well due to several factors. Such as him being somehow the most popular president in history but zero people turned up to his rallies is a huge red flag. The truckloads of mail in ballots being 100% Biden is statistically impossible but it somehow happened.
You should be concerned over the integrity of elections, because it implies so much worse things than Trump. Its also literally the point of the constitution, if you think the government is corrupt you have the RIGHT to tear it down. Thats kind of the whole point.
Voting ID laws are standard everywhere but the USA. People who say its racist are literally just White supremicists who think minorities are always too poor and or too dumb to get them. Despite the fact you need ID to do literally anything from renting to buying booze. And even then, it can become a campaign goal to help people vote after you establish voter ID laws.
Sad to say, renting and buying booze are not constitutionally protected rights. Voting is. Means to help people get acceptable ID in ways that do not effectively disenfranchise them can easily be built into the voter ID laws themselves, and should be. I have yet to see a voter ID law that does this. Yet court after court, often staffed with Republican appointees, has found actual voter fraud levels to be negligible, often in single digits even in large constituencies.
No election is perfect. They are, after all, a human endeavor and humans are not perfect. Voter irregularity in our elections, however, has been minor compared with other nations where corruption is rampant and democracy is merely a show. I don't know that Trump cheated in the last election, though the recordings of him trying to pressure election officials into "finding" more votes in his favor suggest he tried. Court after court, again with Republican-appointed (often Trump-appointed) judges presiding, have found election results fair. Nothing was stolen. Trump was a sore winner when he did win, and now that he did not, is an even sorer loser.
When we elect a president, we are always electing by implication the cabinet, staff, and advisors he will appoint. President is a huge job. No one can do it alone. Good presidents, as I mentioned in referencing Eisenhower, choose good advisors, and then hear them out. Trump chose yes-men whose number one feature was personal loyalty to him, above even loyalty to the Constitution. It sounds like the only one really willing to stand up to him on occasion was his daughter Ivanka, and even she didn't get very far.
Sadly in our political system, the general election comes down to a choice between two candidates, neither one of whom we may consider anywhere near ideal. This sometimes motivates people to vote for "third party" candidates, whether as a protest, or to avoid compromising their own principles. The fact is, though, that until something changes significantly, one of the two main party candidates will win. Anyone who doesn't cast a vote for one of them is essentially abdicating their effective choice. Anyone who thinks their life will be the same regardless of how they vote, well, all I can say is the past several years if nothing else should have shown the difference. I for one prefer to vote for someone whose heart and values are in the right place, even if he might have to rely upon advisors a little more than perhaps a younger fellow. American democracy has no place for political leaders who use personal loyalty as a litmus test.
