re: #153 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

This is what saddens me. The Republicans have spent literal decades conditioning their believers that any time Democrats win, it’s because they cheated. They held up the corruption of old-school Chicago and New York City as examples of what happens when Democrats are in charge. Now all those decades of preparation have manifested in the actual belief that an actual federal election was stolen by invisible gremlins with no demonstrable evidence of any shenanigannery, and instead of being laughed off as the ridiculous and insane conspiracy it is, 70% of the Republican voting base believe it.

They don’t all believe it
A good chunk know better and are just using it cause its effective