Leftist political candidates and their media allies are doing all they can to shift focus from voters' top concerns (i.e. inflation and the economy) to "our democracy being at stake."
On a national level, President Joe Biden all but said that if you don't vote for his side in the upcoming midterm elections that you're basically putting our democracy at risk by voting in "election denying GOP candidates." Funny, but Biden et al didn't seem at all concerned about said deniers being propped up by leftist independent expenditure dollars during primary season. But now that those same Republicans are in a position to win, it's a danger to democracy.
Ah, but it isn't just on a national level where leftists are feverishly trying to shift the election conversation. It's happening here in Minnesota, too.
'I'm saying I won': Nearly one in four Republicans running for the Minnesota Legislature this year have rejected or questioned the outcome of the 2020 election, according to an MPR News analysis. https://t.co/G3lDrQTg2v
— MPR News (@MPRnews) November 2, 2022
If a non-politico were to read those words, they would ascertain that MPR writer Dana Ferguson is legitimately concerned about "election denialism" in general. And I certainly couldn't blame one for harboring that viewpoint. Heck, I would even go along with the notion that unless these GOP candidates produce some hard evidence of fraud, they need to pipe down and focus on winning in 2022. But here's where we run into a thorny issue. How many MPR stories were dedicated to MN lefty politicos screeching over Donald Trump being an illegitimate President due to his either losing the popular vote in 2016 (irrelevant, due to America electing a POTUS via the Electoral College) or working with Russia to meddle in the election itself, a notion that was ultimately debunked?
To be clear, I'm not playing "what-about-ism" here. My point is I don't take your concern or outrage over Election 2020 denialism seriously if you completely ignored what occurred in the aftermath of the election in 2016. Or 2004. Or 2000.
Anyhow, that MPR piece is little more than an attempt to save the DFL from losing control of the MN Legislature as well as losing statewide races for the first time since 2006. The quasi message in that essay? Vote for one-party rule to....uh...save democracy.
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