I hate, hate, HATE that "the election was rigged" has become the go-to explanation (across the US political spectrum) for any election that doesn't go your way.
Remember: despite real progress, there are still vulnerabilities in parts of our election infrastructure. But there is NO EVIDENCE that any US election outcome has ever been successfully altered by technical means.
It's not IMPOSSIBLE, but it's not something that we've actually seen happen (so far). Perspective, please.
@mattblaze So I think this has the same root cause as the "Ukraine killed the Russian bots and Twitter became usable" myth.
Which is to say, it's exculpatory. There is a desperate USAmerican impulse to reassign the blame for USAmerican carnage to others. It would be a neat little world if RuuuUUuUUuUUssia was responsible for Trump, and for fascism, and for global collapse. But the reality is that it's the USA that's responsible for that.
It's the same energy as "all homophobes are secretly gay" being implicitly equivalent to saying "straight people aren't the ones doing homophobia".
