Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election have become a driving force inside the GOP, and a deep distrust in the voting process has spread across the country.
If most people do not trust the electoral system to select our leaders what are the alternatives? The United States really does not have a direct election voting system. We select “electors” who actually do the voting. The country has abandoned the original selection process as established but not required in the constitution. The states now require the “electors” to select the presidential candidate who received the most votes in each state. That could be changed by the legislatures of each state. It would be a choice that would most likely have selected Donald Trump for a second term.
Trump’s complaint is that there was fraud in the election. Miscounts, dead people voting, voting machine tampering, destroyed ballots, etc. None of those claims were proven and that is why Joe Biden was certified the winner.
Where does this leave us? We need a new leader for this nation who will retore our confidence in our government and the electoral system. Neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump is that person. If no one steps forward we could be seeing the disintegration of the great experiment.
That would be a sad ending.
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