Are Americans Inherently Dishonest?
The President seems to think so…
Including some of his own hand-picked appointees…
Back when the President started talking about the “evils” of mail-in ballots, his story was mostly that “millions of mail-in ballots will be printed by foreign countries”, and then sold on street corners by young toughs presumably to anyone who might like to vote a couple of times. So the accusations the President made were primarily against “foreign” actors, with Americans just abetting them.
Over time, that’s escalated. To a new level of paranoia. To the point at which Attorney General Bill Barr suggested this week that mail-in ballot fraud might be accomplished as simply as “paying off a postman, here’s a few hundred dollars, give me some of your ballots”.
Really? Do we, as Americans, really believe our fellow Americans: postal workers, are bought off that easily on that huge a scale? (Also, if that’s so very possible, why wouldn’t poll workers also have a price? So wouldn’t in person voting be easy to corrupt too?)
Part of the confusion comes from the conflation by Trump and his compadre of cheating vs. trying to win an election. As if they’re one and the same, if you oppose Trump.
