I think it was a combination of four things that cost Trump re-election. Had any two of the four, and maybe even one of the four not have happened, he would have won.
1. Covid. Trump had the economy going like a well oiled machine. Unemployment, stock market, all were in great shape. Unless you had TDS life was great for you. Covid screwed all of that.
2. Election Fraud. There was cheating. I don't see how you can be anything other than a brain washed sheep and deny there wasn't at least some cheating that transpired. You could make an argument that cheating wasn't the only thing that cost him the election I suppose. And I myself believe that he could have overcome the cheating if not for reason #4 on my list.
3. The MSM. The media had it out for Trump from the beginning. They've always hated Republicans but the vitriol they spewed at Trump was far beyond even normal for them. Something else was at play here pushing the media even further, and I suspect higher powers who didn't like the fact that Trump couldn't be controlled were involved. Unfortunately, a large segment of the population still listens to the MSM and they influence voters.
4. Trump himself. I loved that Trump had no fear and went toe to toe with the media. He definitely called some people out that needed it. BUT. One of the most important skills in life is learning how to pick and choose your battles. Half the time Trump allowed himself to get involved in the pettiest shit. It's ok to ignore people sometimes. In fact, a lot of times you can let them hang themselves just by keeping your mouth shut. He never figured that out. He should have tweeted 50% less. He turned off a lot of people who would have otherwise voted for him had he been a little more tactful in his rhetoric.
Three of the four he couldn't control. He wasn't perfect but he actually cared about America, which is more than I can say for 98% of politicians. It's a damn shame how it all played out.
Like everything else in 2020, the results of the election get an asterisk.
I can't remember a time when significant national and global events combined to create a world we all lived in for the past year or so. To top it off it was an election year which is generally looney-tune season regardless and one that had been shaping up to be more a clown show than previous cycles, for 4 years via the nature of all things Trump/Maga, anti-Trump/Maga, etc...
Impeachment not going according to plan, Solemani/Iran WW3 fear, pandemic, shutdowns, George Floyd, riots, election season...the year got off to a start and snowballed so fast that our collective culture couldn't handle it.
The momentum of each event just steamrolled into the next.
The only thing you can do during adverse, chaotic, outlier event times that are really out of the control of anyone is pay attention to how people, groups, officials, corporations, etc respond and take note.
You can hide who you and what your intentions are during normal and good times, but not during abnormal times, which I guess is the silver lining during historical episodes like this past year...a lot of folks and entities revealed themselves.
Though times have seemed and continue to seem dire, hopeless I think the masses of normal, reasonable people of all affiliations, backgrounds, etc took note of many important things, ideas, people, agendas that perhaps have been lost and forgotten in the general wash of how our country specifically and the world generally speaking have improved.
Things, ideas, agendas that, because times overall are better than they have been and improving, have been allowed to creep around and spread under the radar.
A lot of liberals who a few years ago were railing against guns suddenly got the urge to go buy guns and appreciate the right to do so.
A lot of citizens and non-citizens from other parts of the globe who aren't voting conservative, or at least weren't, are not huge fans of lockdowns, government overreach, and saying "hey folks we're here because we wanted to get away from a lot of things were seeing trying to take root here in America...be careful..."
A lot of city folk from our progressive "utopia" cities that are bastions of intelligence and great leadership are flocking to rural areas they once criticized and only saw from afar while flying over them.
A lot of folks were censored and/or taken off social platforms...not just conservatives...which has lead to a renewed appreciation for the second amendment and awareness of the forces that would try to end it.
Cancel culture moved on from straight, white, religious, male conservatives, groups, businesses and started taking out gay, black, liberal, Latino, and women as well...
Even the most bleeding heart, kumbaya, we are the world globalists saw some things in the stem bill and were like "you know what, maybe we don't need to send billions to Sudan and Pakistan..."
Everyone is starting to see that cities with activist DA, mayors, agendas are literally in flames...
Lastly, and to circle back to the original topic, we all learned that our election system top to bottom isn't what it could and should be considering we are the most advanced, democratic nation more than capable of having a lot more efficient, accurate, secure election process.
Now, we all have known it for quite some time, however, there hasn't always been hypersensitive limelight shining on everything, especially politics, like there was last year. I would say you'd be hard-pressed to find an election season in which there weren't some shenanigans at some level. Whether it's local, state, or national, election tricky dickery is about as American as apple pie and I think we've all accepted it over the years. Some years it favors pubs in some places at some levels, other years dems. This past year though it seems to have been egregious and with serious consequences.
In a technological world of data, analytics, hyper security, logins, passwords, retinal IDs, for something as insignificant as being able to access a social platform to post or like a picture of a cat eating some avocado toast with the sun setting in the background, or buy a song via the apple store...you mean to tell me we can't work something out for our elections.
We can pinpoint our friends and families' current location and what they're doing...but we can't track whether or not somebody went to the voting booth twice?
We can fact-check any statement made by anyone at any time and verify whether an online account is legit or a parody...but we can't easily call BS when Joan Smith born 1905 died in 1985 votes?
A lot of bullshit bubbled up in 2020 and I think a lot of people who couldn't smell it before got a good huff of it and didn't like it.
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