Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Thoughts on Vote/Election Fraud and Panics

ZMan is never an optimist.  Unfortunately, he's usually on solid ground.

Here he discusses "panics" such as those preceding the French and Russian Revolutions, and the 1873 event. 

Pertinent:

...If in your place of work, the software system used by the company suddenly produces errors, everyone raises an alarm. Work stops until the people in charge of the software either explain why the unexpected result is, in fact, correct or they find the cause and repair it. The software system holds the business rules of the company, so when those rules appear to be to failing, the logic of the business is called into question. The users begin to panic.

The reason people panic is that trust is built on predictability and predictability relies on rules and the orderly enforcement of those rules. When the rules stop making sense or their enforcement becomes arbitrary, it becomes impossible to predict the outcome of one’s actions. When you cannot trust the rules, you cannot trust the results of your own decisions, which means you cannot trust even yourself. When people can trust nothing they are willing to believe anything.

America appears to be in one of those moments when the people are suddenly thrust into a world in which they can no longer trust anything. The extraordinary events of the last election have caused tens of millions to question the system itself. Even those who voted for Biden are coming around to the idea that it was not on the level. Now we are seeing wild claims rocketing around the internet about what is happening to various people and what is happening behind the scenes....

 (That last sentence undoubtedly refers to the "CIA v. Green Beret War" which supposedly occurred in Germany over a set of servers run by Scytl, reportedly a CIA front.)

The larger point is in red.  

Earlier we mentioned Rohn Bishop, who--along with a number of other Wisconsin Republican poohbahs--advocates that Wisconsin voters 'let fraud slide'.   Bishop et.al. effectively demand that enforcement becomes arbitrary.  That's certainly not the way he'd like his bank to honor his checks, is it?  "On one day, we'll pay them; another, we won't.  Doesn't make any difference what his balance is, either."  He might switch banks.

Anyone in the room think that Biden Harris will restore confidence?  Anyone?  Anyone? 

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