US Thanksgiving: election chaos, isolation, mistrust
Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Chicago
The United States is beginning its long Thanksgiving holiday consumed with divisive and ongoing questions regarding voter fraud in their presidential election.
Incumbent Donald Trump refuses to concede and, according to a poll by the anti-Trump magazine The Economist, 90% of his voters agree that Joe Biden "did not legitimately win the election.
Last-second software upgrades to voter machines in places like Georgia; the unprecedented expansion of mail-in ballots forced by executive gubernatorial orders which were not checked and balanced with a legislative vote; the fraudulent use of mail-in ballots; and other allegations which many are insisting be investigated fully. So far, none of the hundreds of court cases have changed the projected outcome of a Biden victory, but many cases are still ongoing.
Massive distrust about the integrity of the US electoral process exists because this is their third disputed election in six tries. The pollster YouGov found that as late as 2018 a whopping 70% of Democrats still believed that “Russia tampered with vote tallies in order to help Donald Trump get elected president” in 2016. For three years Democrats led investigations of election collusion which didn’t produce a single indictment, much less a conviction.
In the year 2000 the Supreme Court ordered Florida to stop counting votes in what was seen as a highly-partisan move which undoubtedly disenfranchised Black voters disproportionately. The 2020 election chaos is unprecedented, and many feel it will produce long-term cultural changes.
Record unemployment which continues to rise, more coronavirus-related lockdowns which exempt some corporations but not countless vulnerable small businesses, a year full of political violence, and a still-disputed election - many Americans are spending this holiday at home alone, and not feeling very thankful.
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