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Originally Posted by donquixote99
They seem rather equivalent when stated that way, don't they? One might throw up one's hands and just figure all politicians are equally bad. But there is a heck of a lot of evidence that the GOP of late has been plotting to subvert democracy here. I have heard many Republicans testify under oath about how they tried to do it.
On the other hand, actual evidence of Democratic Party vote fraud seems really thin on the ground. So, equal accusations do NOT mean equivalence. Not at all.
Please be more careful about repeating easy but false accusations.
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Thanks for telling me to be careful about something I didn't do. But, while we're at it, allegations of voter fraud are nothing new. Having a presidential candidate openly question the results of a national election are also nothing new.
If evidence of election fraud seems thin to you, maybe its because you're not looking for it. It happens every election cycle, and members of both parties do it. While I don't believe the 2020 election was stolen, there were plenty of cases of election hi-jinks.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr...election-fraud
https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud-print/search
https://www.courierpress.com/story/n...ny/7799375002/
https://www.wuft.org/news/2022/04/02...registrations/
Back to my original point, claims that members of one party "subverting democracy" by another party is nothing new, and didn't start in 2020. Here's a Slate article going
back to 2003 where it was suggested that the Repubs were subverting democracy when they, for example, impeached Clinton for lying. Funny how Slate never thought that the Dems efforts to derail the Trump presidency with never ending false accusations, investigations and impeachments were subverting democracy. But its not hard to find examples of Repubs accusing Democrats of the same thing.