{"id":919,"date":"2021-01-05T21:06:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T21:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2021-01-05T21:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T21:06:18","slug":"what-is-the-answer-to-all-the-people-who-think-there-was-fraud-in-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/05\/what-is-the-answer-to-all-the-people-who-think-there-was-fraud-in-this-election\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the answer to all the people who think there was fraud in this election?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article makes a good point: Ignoring And Ridiculing Election Fraud Concerns Will Not Make Them Go Away<\/a> <\/p>\n

Whether or not you agree there was massive electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election does not really matter at this point. Every American should be deeply concerned if nearly half of all voters are convinced that large-scale fraud handed the election to the Biden-Harris ticket. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some are acting as if the right response is simply to call these people ignorant rubes. <\/p>\n

That’s a pretty common tactic these days, on all sides. For example, many conservatives think the left has been deceiving people about allegedly racist attacks by police. I don’t suspect conservatives will make much progress simply by saying it’s fake news. They need to address the concerns in a way that will persuade the people who believe the police are racist. <\/p>\n

It’s an important issue. We can’t have a civil society when a large portion of the population believes the police are killing people because of their skin color. If they are, we need to take tremendous measures to fix that. But if they’re not, we need to take tremendous efforts to correct that misunderstanding. <\/p>\n

The same is true of election integrity. We can’t have elections where almost 50 percent of the population believes there’s systemic bias. We need to find out the truth, and we need to communicate that. <\/p>\n

Congressional hearings? A blue-ribbon panel? An open debate on national TV? <\/p>\n

What’s the path forward? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article makes a good point: Ignoring And Ridiculing Election Fraud Concerns Will Not Make Them Go Away Whether or not you agree there was massive electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election does not really matter at this point. Every American should be deeply concerned if nearly half of all voters are convinced that … Continue reading “What is the answer to all the people who think there was fraud in this election?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}