Some things resist my occasionally feeble skill at reasoning things out; The Big Lie is one of them.
More to the point, what escapes my noggin’s intellectual capacity is how people actually continue to believe The Big Lie, which has been proven time and again — through many venues and forums — to be one of the biggest political hoaxes ever perpetrated.
The Big Lie is part of the crop sown by Donald J. Trump, who lost the 2020 presidential election but who continues to insist it was “stolen” from him. That he actually won “in a landslide.”
Sweet Mother of Jesus in Heaven! No! He didn’t win! He lost huge, man!
No one has produced anything resembling a shred of credible evidence that anything occurred that would have changed the outcome. President Biden earned 81.2 million votes; Trump polled 74.2 million ballots. Yes, the loser’s total is impressive.
But the winner got 7 million more of them!
Biden’s Electoral College count was significant as well. He earned 306 electoral votes, a good bit more than the 270 he needed to win election.
The Big Lie led to the second impeachment of Trump, who stood trial in the Senate actually after he left office. Yeah, he skated through the second trial the same way he did the first time, as too few Republican senators voted to convict the con man.
The Big Lie continues to fester in states all across the land. We are watching the possible rise to power of individuals who believe The Big Lie and who could launch the kind of coup that failed on 1/6, when the treasonous mob of attackers stormed the Capitol Building, threatened to “hand Mike Pence!” and sought to overturn the certification of Biden’s victory.
I cannot grasp how the carnival barker, Trump, has managed to sway the cult followers into believing something that is demonstrably false.
I might need therapy before this is ends.