Lying and Stealing

"TWO HUNDRED MULES" is not the title of a thirty minute western television serial program from the nineteen fifties narrated by Ronald Reagan, but rather, a recently released film which presumes to prove, without question, that the twenty twenty presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump by, one must assume, Joe Biden and a veritable horde of co-conspirators, unnamed by its creator, Dinesh D'Souza. It proves nothing, of course, but only rants the same tired accusations we have heard for more than a year and a half, and attempts to support them with contrived, false evidence. There are holes in its reasoning through which one could, as we asy, drive a truck. The truck would have to be driven by MAGA types blocking the road to vaccination or abortion clinics. The holes have been and are being clearly, simply identified explained by such esteemed, credible sources as National Public Radio, and numerous film method analysts. D'Sousa is a conservative activist and staunch Trump supporter, pre and post insurrection, with, as we sometimes say, an "ax to grind". This alone disqualifies him from consideration as a dispassionate, objective analyst. I saw the movie. Its fiction. Its says nothing, proves nothing, other than Trump supporters are desperate for vindication of their nefarious infamy. With each passing day I despise more the people who refuse to accept with good grace the election outcome. They are the people who tried to steal the election, not from Trump, but for Trump. Seldom if ever have I seen more reprehensible voluntary behavior from so many people. Never again will there be a national election in the United States without stain, suspicion, and accusation. The damage they have done, and continue to do to the foundational democratic institutions of the U.S. will take decades to undo. Even now the traitorous liars who still support Trump will watch this piece of flim flam film garbage, and proclaim their own vindication. There will come a time when future historians regard the behavior of Trump supporters with amazement, because they will retrospectively clearly see that there wasn't even a trace of fraud in the defeat of donald Trump, and they will maintain that the MAGA gang very nearly brought an end to the American democratic experiment, an experiment which was nearly never completed. In any country which aspires to democracy an honest electoral system is foundational. And, as any political scientist will tell you, democracies do not function automatically, they work only when we the people make them work, by believing in it and participating in it. For this, it is necessary to have faith that the system is honest, when all indications are that it indeed is. The tragedy of Trump and his supporters is that, without reason, they have undermined the faith of we the people in the democracy we still so dearly hope to create.