I firmly believe the accusations about 2016’s primary beint stolen were the prototype for the rigged election accusations in 2020.
They didn’t actually win more votes, and if they did it shouldn’t count because it was rigged, and if it wasn’t then they counted the votes wrong, and if they didn’t then they didn’t count the votes that should have really counted the most (that being the ones cast by the white people).
Clinton and Biden won the primary mostly on support of so called “low information voters”, that being a “polite” way to refer to the black vote in the South, and in 2020 the claim that “illegal” votes were counted was yet again an attempt to discredit votes cast by PoC, this time more broadly to include latine, MENA, and Indigenous votes that contributed significantly to the rust belt and southwest flipping back to the Democrats, and also the black vote flipping Georgia because of course.
The core sentiment remains, white entitlement and resentment at their declining influence on electoral outcomes, the absolute vitriol white leftists hold for Clinton specifically is in my opinion their violent reaction to the idea that if she exits public view then PoC will forget that white leftists called them undeserving brats for not falling in line behind Bernie (remember all those Facebook posts about how black people should just shut up and support Bernie because of that single picture of him in a civil rights march?), and that white leftists voted for Jill Stein and Harambee in large enough numbers in each of the rust belt states to flip it over their outrage, basically that black votes were counted and changed the result in favor of the candidate who was far more in touch with the black community.
In a non-FPTP democracy, this would have been the grounds that the black vote broke off from the Democrats to form their own party over.
I firmly believe the accusations about 2016’s primary beint stolen were the prototype for the rigged election accusations in 2020.
They didn’t actually win more votes, and if they did it shouldn’t count because it was rigged, and if it wasn’t then they counted the votes wrong, and if they didn’t then they didn’t count the votes that should have really counted the most (that being the ones cast by the white people).
Clinton and Biden won the primary mostly on support of so called “low information voters”, that being a “polite” way to refer to the black vote in the South, and in 2020 the claim that “illegal” votes were counted was yet again an attempt to discredit votes cast by PoC, this time more broadly to include latine, MENA, and Indigenous votes that contributed significantly to the rust belt and southwest flipping back to the Democrats, and also the black vote flipping Georgia because of course.
The core sentiment remains, white entitlement and resentment at their declining influence on electoral outcomes, the absolute vitriol white leftists hold for Clinton specifically is in my opinion their violent reaction to the idea that if she exits public view then PoC will forget that white leftists called them undeserving brats for not falling in line behind Bernie (remember all those Facebook posts about how black people should just shut up and support Bernie because of that single picture of him in a civil rights march?), and that white leftists voted for Jill Stein and Harambee in large enough numbers in each of the rust belt states to flip it over their outrage, basically that black votes were counted and changed the result in favor of the candidate who was far more in touch with the black community.
In a non-FPTP democracy, this would have been the grounds that the black vote broke off from the Democrats to form their own party over.