Not bound by patriotism

John Hibert: “There is no way Biden won this election.”

Indubitably! After all, how could Trump, whose incompetency and callousness led to hundreds of thousands of COVID-19-related deaths, and who insulted hundreds of millions, have lost the election? It’s unfathomable, John Hibert. Unfathomable, I tell you.

Hibert: “They [One American News] have all the evidence to prove the election was a fraud.”

The highly questionable One American News needs to present its evidence to the applicable states’ attorneys generals. Never mind that judges, including Trump-appointed judges, have tossed out or, more to the point, laughed out 64 election-related lawsuits.

Trump and his attorneys have no evidence, and his supporters know it but cannot admit it. They know there to have been no widespread voter fraud, for they’re not stupid. However, such an admission would bestow upon them the “sore losers” and “snowflakes” labels they liberally apply to others.

These political reactionaries cannot voice what they think; that now that democracy (might) be working for people of color and other disenfranchised citizens, too, they — right-wingers are now contemptuous of democracy. Indeed, they detest democracy and hunger for an autocracy — a “Trumpocracy.”

They cannot make-known their racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia, not to mention their concomitant desire to nullify the results of a free and fair election. So they cloak their bigotries and disdain for democratic processes within spurious assertions of extensive voter fraud. Such behavior serves to conceal their being privileged bullies while propping up the illusion of victimhood.

As a socialist, I, too, have no use for Joseph Biden or Kamala Harris. But, with Trump’s bipartisanly debunked claims notwithstanding, they were legitimately elected to the presidency and vice-presidency.

I recognize and honor their election, and, unlike right-wingers, I’m not bound by patriotism.

Guy Marsh Lancaster