November 2020 – Irregularities
Democrats are employing some excellent brainwashing technique to defend the election as fair. Here are some of their tricks.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 20, 2020
1. "Refuses to concede" is making you think past the sale that Trump's legal challenges will fail. This is their main persuasion trick.
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2. "Audit" is being used to make a simple recount of (alleged) fraudulent ballots seem as if that could potentially find all types of fraud, which a recount is not designed to do. When none is found (because they are not looking), they will declare it proof there was no fraud.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 20, 2020
3. "No evidence" is being used to reframe "plenty of evidence but not yet proven in court."
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 20, 2020
4. "No WIDESPREAD fraud" is the defense against the allegation of TARGETED fraud in specific swing state cities. This is misdirection aimed at low-information voters, which is most of the public.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 20, 2020
5. Massive fraud would be "obvious" if it happened, so therefore it didn't happen. This ignores the entire nature of the allegation -- that it is totally obvious to about half of the country. No one believes Biden got far more votes than Obama.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 20, 2020
6. Trump lawsuits are being tossed out of court. The fake news does not tell you the strongest evidence of fraud has not yet been presented to the courts. The first lawsuits were probably just to keep the fraud argument alive while lawyers dug for the good stuff.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 20, 2020
7. Character assassination by bad analogy. The fake news is labelling Trump's legal challenges to the election as McCarthyism, racism, and the work of a dictator staging a coup. All of that is fear-persuasion based on bad analogies.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 20, 2020
8. Experts and trusted media say no fraud has been detected. What they leave out is that they were not looking for it, and in some cases the people responsible for preventing election fraud are just saying they did a terrific job. This is misdirection.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) November 20, 2020