I think that you're bringing up a lot of interesting points. Short answer, I don't think we can know for certain. I don't mean that to be dismissive. As I said, these are interesting topics.
One area of particular interest to me is your approaching this from a perspective of global importance. I think that this idea hasn't gotten nearly enough attention. There's a vast amount that can be discussed from that perspective. I will touch on a fairly simple example: If things go as the media seems to want them to go: January 20th comes, Biden get's sworn in, Trump retires to FL and is never heard from again... this is impossible. The entire world is watching this election. Our country has, correctly, refused to acknowledge other nation and/ or heads of state for far less that has just been broadcast to the world. What is CNN's solution when some other nation refused to acknowledge the United States as legitimate and uses CNN's own reporting as the basis for doing so?
I have no idea what any of these answer are. My simple opinion is that, for all these reasons and countless more, unless this election is fully and transparently audited, validated, and lots and lots of people go to jail, there will be a cascade of horrifying, widespread, long term consequences. Even if that happens, I still do not see a happy ending for a very long time.
I think that you're bringing up a lot of interesting points. Short answer, I don't think we can know for certain. I don't mean that to be dismissive. As I said, these are interesting topics.
One area of particular interest to me is your approaching this from a perspective of global importance. I think that this idea hasn't gotten nearly enough attention. There's a vast amount that can be discussed from that perspective. I will touch on a fairly simple example: If things go as the media seems to want them to go: January 20th comes, Biden get's sworn in, Trump retires to FL and is never heard from again... this is impossible. The entire world is watching this election. Our country has, correctly, refused to acknowledge other nation and/ or heads of state for far less that has just been broadcast to the world. What is CNN's solution when some other nation refused to acknowledge the United States as legitimate and uses CNN's own reporting as the basis for doing so?
I have no idea what any of these answer are. My simple opinion is that, for all these reasons and countless more, unless this election is fully and transparently audited, validated, and lots and lots of people go to jail, there will be a cascade of horrifying, widespread, long term consequences. Even if that happens, I still do not see a happy ending for a very long time.