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People were told by other people in positions of legitimate authority that the election was literally stolen. Effectively meaning that the Republic has been usu
by jariel 6y ago
People were told by other people in positions of legitimate authority that the election was literally stolen. Effectively meaning that the Republic has been usurped and democracy trampled.
Imagine, wherever you live, if some 'bad guys' actually did that: stuff ballots, silence officials, push through a win.
There are three reasons I can think of some kind of legit call to arms:
1) Your country is being invaded
2) Communists or Fascists are literally taking over the world.
3) Your government has been usurped in a coup etc.. <- this is essentially what the '2cnd amendment' is supposedly supposed to thwart.
Given the number of people who live in the fake news bubble and truly believe the election was a fraud, I'm surprised there isn't more of this.
Actually, it's unfathomable that there hasn't been some kind of armed attempt at 'something' when >100M people truly believe the election was not legit and they have guns.
It's made me think that a lot of Trumpers who believe that the election was stolen, don't truly believe it, rather, they just 'want to believe it' - as a mental cover for their loss. "The election was rigged" more or less as a slogan, not actually a fact.