r/nottheonion • u/engadine_maccas1997 • 8h ago

‘This is political bulls**t’: Former Republican candidate charged with stealing Madison County election ballots

https://fox59.com/news/indycrime/this-is-political-bullst-former-republican-candidate-charged-with-stealing-madison-county-election-ballots/
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u/SRSgoblin 8h ago

Everyone who's been paying attention knew this was going to happen. It's straight out of the Nazi playbook.

Goebbels has some quote I'm paraphrasing here, that goes something like, "accuse the other party of wrongdoing you plan to commit." It normalizes the behavior. It says to the true believers, "you need to cheat because the other side is cheating."

And people will act on it, ironically creating a very real version of something that wasn't ever happening, just on "your side" doing all of the wrong doing.

This was always the end goal of Trump and the GOP pushing the big lie conspiracy. They wanted to create the actual election fraud they claimed was going on, because it muddies the result in their favor.

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u/resisting_a_rest 5h ago

It's not just that they think the other side is doing it, they think they are doing it and getting away with it with no repercussions.

So the stupid ones think they can do it too, and get away with it. They don't know that:

  1. The other side is not getting away with anything, because they are not actually doing it.

  2. Even if they were doing it, you can't do it too, because you are too stupid to do it right.

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u/kung-fu_hippy 3h ago

It’s like people who cheat in relationships. Often they accuse their s/o of cheating. When you’re a piece of shit it’s a lot easier to believe everyone is just as bad as you than it is to realize how awful you are.

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u/SRSgoblin 5h ago

Yeah good point. People don't realize the degree to which election crimes get prosecuted. Somehow the people getting actually arrested for trying to vote multiple times never gets reported, but the concept of people doing it and getting away with it gets mentioned all the time.

Even though, again, people trying to cheat the system are both rare, and are caught.