“I’ll believe it when I see it.”
That’s a common response from skeptics when told something that contradicts their opinions. Only it’s not true. In fact, it’s a double falsehood, because they’ll never believe what they say they would believe if they saw it – and they’ll never see it, or accept it, no matter how many times it’s shown to them.
“Where’s the evidence?” That’s another favorite line of skeptics. But what happens when they’re shown the evidence? They reject it out of hand.
The response of skeptics to the evidence of widespread vote fraud in the U.S. presidential election is typical.
Affidavits from eyewitnesses to vote fraud, testimony from persons who admit to participating in the fraud, video recordings of the fraud being perpetrated, vote counts for Trump being reduced on election night on live TV, poll watchers being denied access to counting centers or kept so far distant from the counters that they cannot monitor the counting, poll watchers being bullied or threatened, forensic examinations of the voting systems showing that they could be (and were) manipulated by poll workers onsite and by outside parties with remote access through the internet, statistical analyses revealing not only implausible but impossible anomalies, etc.
Nope. Nothing to see there. Where’s the evidence?
For those who do believe what they see and refuse to be bamboozled by the mainstream media, the transformation of our nation into a banana republic is thoroughly dispiriting.
What’s next? Death threats against anyone who challenges the fraud?
We’re already there. It’s already happening: to legislators, state officials, and judges who indicate that they might be willing to “stop the steal.”
Just ask West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, whose office staff received death threats following his decision to join an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit challenging election results in four swing states.
“Threats of violence have no place in a civil society,” Morrisey insists, and he’s right. The question is, do we still have a civil society?
