{"id":285,"date":"2021-07-01T21:47:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T02:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=285"},"modified":"2023-07-25T21:07:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:07:33","slug":"the-madness-of-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/the-madness-of-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madness of Crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Tens of millions of people in the US believe in bullshit.&nbsp; Somehow, these people believe that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, that there was a massive conspiracy to steal the election from Trump, and that Trump will soon be reinstated to office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">All of the evidence to the contrary &#8211; the endless losses in court, the complete lack of evidence, the unchanged results of recounts &#8211; all of this is dismissed as part of the conspiracy.&nbsp; Even the Supreme Court is considered to be prejudiced against Trump, even though he seated three of the justices.&nbsp; He lost by unanimous decision, not just by a majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Following the 2016 election, many of us were angry that, despite winning the popular vote, the election went to Trump because of the Electoral College.&nbsp; At the time the winners jeered at us to just suck it up and get over it.&nbsp; And we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">So as far as I&#8217;m concerned, these guys can suck it up and get over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">However, this madness has turned into violence.&nbsp; A serious effort was made to overturn the election through overthrowing the government was made on January 6th of this year.&nbsp; People died.&nbsp; People tore down the American flag, in order to replace them with Trump flags.&nbsp; These were not patriots.&nbsp; They were criminals.&nbsp; All their bullshit about saving America or making America great again was bullshit.&nbsp; They couldn&#8217;t care less about America.&nbsp; They just want their king to reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I am worried about this country.&nbsp; This situation strikes me as being unstable.&nbsp; There are still militant groups out there, prepared to do battle.&nbsp; The mob in January was unorganized, poorly prepared to do anything except trash some offices.&nbsp; Next time, they might be better organized, and they might start a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">What I find particularly saddening is the person these people have chosen to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of millions of people in the US believe in bullshit.&nbsp; Somehow, these people believe that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, that there was a massive conspiracy to steal the election from Trump, and that Trump will soon be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/the-madness-of-crowds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}