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With certain trump supporters claiming votes are coming in from China and many others believing the counting of votes should be stopped before all the votes are counted, it’s apparent one of the things that needs to happen before we can begin to bridge the chasm between the two competing visions of America currently in play is for voters to receive civics lessons so they can learn what constitutes a legal vote, how a legally-cast vote differs from an “illegal vote,” why all legal votes must be counted and how the invalidation of legal votes is not permitted by law.

In a world governed by logic, responsible government officials of both parties would join in issuing a statement explaining these differences and why the protests currently going on among those who believe the election was “stolen” from the president are not only based on erroneous information but also that the continuation of those protests poses a threat to the integrity of the electoral process.

In a world governed by logic, assuming voters understood the electoral process, they should be expected to also understand how the sanctity of the vote is defined and protected by law and they should be able to recognize the sorts of lies about voting currently being spread by the president and his enablers.

In a world governed by logic, the reintroduction of civics into the curricula of the nations’ primary and secondary schools would be seen as a necessary first step to preventing this problem from confounding the electoral judgment of future generations.

But then, in a world governed by logic, trumpism would be at best a fringe phenomenon given credence only by those on the extreme edges of society.

Wish it were so all one might, it’s painfully obvious we are not residing in a world governed by logic.

And, pending the development of a super-efficient, high-volume nonsense scrubber and bullshit remover, we won’t be living in one soon.

Tim Konrad

November 8, 2020