There is simply no evidence of wide spread election fraud in the USA, yet driven by tweets from their President many Americans believe their election has been “stolen”
“Believe” is the operative word here. Humans have an extraordinary capacity to believe in things even when the facts count against them and then to adapt their belief to fit the facts that fly in the face of them.
Take, for example, what happens to doomsday cults when the world doesn’t actually end.
The classic text on this subject is “When Prophecy Fails”, a 1956 book by three University of Minnesota psychologists — Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter — who “joined” such a cult in order to study its members.
This group believed in a mash-up between Christianity and UFO conspiracy theory: The two leaders claimed to be receiving secret messages from aliens, one of which had “revealed itself … as the current embodiment of Jesus.”
Eventually, the leaders said that the Jesus-alien had warned them of a great flood that would destroy Earth and everyone on it — except for the members of this group, who would be spared.
There was a particular time and day that the flood was supposed to happen, and this time came and went.
Nothing, as you might’ve guessed, happened, and so the three undercover psychologists got to watch the cult members’ reactions.
At first everyone was stunned; one of the leaders openly wept. But things began to turn around when the leader the researchers referred to as Mrs. Keech alerted the group to another message she’d received from the aliens: Because of the faith of this little group, the world would be spared!
This resulted in a blitz of proselytizing with the group members “more convinced than ever that their beliefs were correct and thus avoiding the embarrassment of admitting they were wrong.
I suspect something similar will have to happen with Trump and his followers.
He (and they) will have to keep talking about voter fraud as the reason for his losing the election… even as he leaves the White House for the last time .
Bryan Bruce is one of NZs most respected documentary makers and public intellectuals who has tirelessly exposed NZs neoliberal economic settings as the main cause for social issues.
Now I’ve no idea what actually did happen in the USA elections (like 99.9% of us), nor am I a Trump fan. But Paul Craig Roberts is no tin foil idiot and this is what he’s writing about and sharing. Suggesting there are many questions that need answering about a lot of prima facia voter fraud.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2020/11/09/there-has-been-a-revolution-against-red-state-america-not-an-election/
Thanks for the link Kevin. I wonder why Bryan is so dismissive. There do seem to be a lot of questions to be answered. Why not wait and see?
D J S
Was it not Voltaire who penned; “Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”
Which was a dangerous thing to pen during the Pope’s control over France.
And today, such blasphemy might not go down too well with the Ayatollah.
Today in USA, “it” also appears to produce undesirable outcomes for White House incumbent who accept real time over dream time
Not to mention the curtailment of the president’s right to communicate with the public. That is the issue which gets little MSM scrutiny.
The media are a corrupting influence on a country’s democracy. Mediacracy. Sad.
Biden himself admitted to voter fraud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGiDkBIlZ2A
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