Trust
Trust.
Given freely, easily lost, extremely hard to restore.
I am not omniscient enough to know whether there was enough widespread voter fraud to have handed Joe Biden the election. Although I have seen enough evidence to convince me that there definitely was voter fraud, and that it was much more prevalent than the MSM (mainstream media) would have its viewers believe.
I am not anything near to being tradesman enough in the odd martial art of legal sophistry to determine whether the widespread refusal of the courts to seriously explore the allegations of inconsistencies, and even outright fraud in the elections, was due to the unbiased considerations of loyal non-partisan stewards of the law, or whether it was due more to both deeply held political bias of the courts, and a general disdain of the elitist members of a professional legal class on both sides of the political aisle to the populist sentiments that Trump’s voters represent.
And I am nowhere near holding the level of security clearance and behind the scenes knowledge to know whether there is a widespread conspiracy of the intelligence community and other deep state employees to get rid of and hurt President Trump — come hell or high water, or whether that is nothing more than a conspiracy theory detached from reality.
I do know one thing though.
There is a huge loss of trust in our systems of economic, political and judicial power.
The media’s, and the tech giants’ widespread and conspicuous censorship, mockery, and demonization of the 75,000,000+ Americans who are seriously concerned about the integrity of our election results is not helping. It is making the issue at hand much much worse.
For what these powerful actors, who control the majority stock of our public square for what should be a place for a free exchange of ideas seem to miss, from the oxygen starved heights up top of the ivory towers from which they peer down on the rest of us deplorable peasants who dare try and hold a different opinion, is that in their rush to seize power, and sweep the doubts of millions of Americans away and under the table, they are missing the point.
The point isn’t whether all of the aforementioned concerns are based on fact of fiction, but whether a major part of the Nation is concerned about them.
It’s about trust.
And you don’t build trust with snide, with snark, with fallacy and one-sidedness but rather with genuine open conversation, and debate.
The foundations of healthy nuanced and balanced thought. Which is the foundation of a healthy diverse and vibrant society.
The first amendment reads; Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The spirit of the American ideal that this amendment is striving to safeguard; The freedom of speech, the right to petition for redress of grievances, is crucial for the survival of a free diverse society.
Whether it is being abridged by law or by corporations or by the very media outlets that were supposed to safeguard it is misses the point. The point is that without this freedom being defended by us Americans — we shall not long survive as such.
