It's nearly a week since the voting, and given that I follow DU closely, just yesterday, I found out Musk and Starlnk..

[Cirsium]

64. Oh don't be silly

All of these accusations against the Republicans for dirty dealing and cheating and lying and stealing as though they were some sort of monsters or something! I mean come on. It is not like we have seen any evidence of any of that. Besides, there are guardrails, and institionalists, and safeguards. There are lawyers and courts and stuff. How could they get away with any skullduggery? People would Tweet about it, and it would go viral and the bad guys would be toast, right? MSNBC would do some hard hitting shows and that would expose their dirty tricks and that would be the end of that. Then there is the FBI, DOJ and AG Garland. The Republicans could never get away with engaging in some massive crime spree. There would be serious consequences, just look at what the FBI has done to other groups:

"Since 2010, the FBI has surveilled black activists and Muslim Americans, Palestinian solidarity and peace activists, Abolish ICE protesters, Occupy Wall Street, environmentalists, Cuba and Iran normalization proponents, and protesters at the Republican National Convention. And that is just the surveillance we know of — as the civil liberties group Defending Rights & Dissent documents in a report published today. The report is a detailed catalog of known FBI First Amendment abuses and political surveillance since 2010, when the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General published the last official review of Bush-era abuses. The incidents the report references, many of which were previously covered by The Intercept, were largely exposed through public records requests by journalists, activists, and civil rights advocates. The FBI relentlessly fought those disclosures, and the documents we have were often so heavily redacted they only revealed the existence of initiatives like a 'Race Paper' or an 'Iron Fist' operation, both targeting racial justice activists, while giving away little detail about their content."

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z-i_XCoZub8ISKEe5DzjoMh0bPS5u1Xm/view

Surely the FBI and the DOJ would treat right wing terrorists and criminals the same harsh way!

I don't know why people are so suspicious on the Republicans and keep making up all these conspiracy theories. People are claiming all sorts of crazy things, such as saying that Republicans orchestrated a seditious attack on the Capitol! How far-fetched is that? Some conspiracy theorists claim that the Republicans have purged millions of people from the voting rolls. Another theory says that Republicans separated children from their parents at the border. Then there is the crazy theory that the Republicans have been colluding with the Russians to destroy democracy in the US! Another wacky idea is that Trump actually stole classified documents, or that he shared intelligence with other countries, or threatened elections officials, or tried to overturn an election, or committed fraud, or is guilty of sexual assault!

If we make all of these wild accusations, how does that make us look? Won't we then be just as bad as the other side? Aren't we better than this? And whatever happened to bipartisanship? I am sure if we reach out and are willing to compromise they will be reasonable.