Here we go again. Didn't respond to my evidence at all. Rigging doesn't just mean changing votes. It means changing hours, reducing polling locations, etc. And just because she won by a lot doesn't mean she didn't cheat.
The accredited Brennan Center for Justice put together a
massive report on voter fraud going over all verified and alleged cases of voter fraud and concluded that there is no systematic manipulation of what people's votes are counted for by either party, that most cases of fraud are human error (like forgetting to take a dead person's name off of a list for example), and that they don't have any meaningful outcome.
Anyways, I've noticed something that I think is particularly important in terms of the future of American politics
After they lost in 2012 the RNC put together a massive autopsy report of why they thought that they lost and what they believed that they should do to win in the future. Considering that the percentage of white Americans is getting lower as time goes on, they advocating taking steps to appeal to more citizens rather than just banking on the white vote. They made the following recommendations:
- Stop targeting the Hispanic community and start working with them.
- Start working with the black community, i.e., NAACP (also other minorities).
- Stop being so homophobic, not because they think it is a big voting block, but because general hatred makes most people distrusting of the Republican platform.
- Try to dispel the image that the Republican party is tied to wealth (while also relaxing campaign laws???)
- Learn more from their successful Governor's re working to win over minorities.
And lastly, addressing something they called Epistemic Closure
"The Republican Party needs to stop talking to itself," its authors write. "We have become expert in how to provide ideological reinforcement to like-minded people, but devastatingly we have lost the ability to be persuasive with, or welcoming to, those who do not agree with us on every issue. Instead of driving around in circles on an ideological cul-de-sac, we need a Party whose brand of conservatism invites and inspires new people to visit us."
The reason the RNC was upset at Trump from the outset was that his campaign plan eschewed all of these points, running almost entirely on increasing turnout in poor white voting groups, at the cost of every other group. He hasn't made any big policy statements towards homosexuality this election (I think), and he has tried to make inroads with the black and hindi communities (to little avail). He went out of his way to attack Latin Americans, anyone that "looks" Muslim, and all of the big name Republican governors that had/have comparably good relations with the Hispanic community.
His strategy largely worked out in the Republicans primaries, where most of the groups that he either ignored or attacked don't vote in large numbers, but in the larger election, where not everyone is white and male, it hasn't worked out very well. When Trump and/or his followers say that "if we don't win it will be too late" or "it will be the end", I believe that they're speaking to the realization that white men (while still very powerful) cannot completely control the United States anymore.
On the other hand, Hilary has campaigned in pretty much every demographic, and is fond of saying that a president needs to represent "every American", and regardless of what you think of her as a person, she's right. You can't win a first to 50% out of 100% election if your campaign plan focuses entirely on getting as much of your 30-40% party members to vote as possible.
If you had to ask me, look for the RNC to implement a stronger superdelgate system in their primaries for future elections so they can screen out candidates like Trump and push moderates through.
