Who Wasn't?

Faced with results that they do not like, many Christians believe that massive voter fraud allowed Joe Biden to unfairly defeat Donald Trump in the US presidential election. On the other hand, a strange aspect of the presidential election results is that Donald Trump got many more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016, despite increasing hostility to his presidency and the claims of many people that they had voted for him only to get rid of Hilary Clinton. This suggests that someone was flipping votes for him too.

If people really believe that there was significant fraud in the US presidential election, they should ponder the possibility that both sides were at it. The Republicans are widely considered to be more competent than the democrats, so if it is so easy to steal an election, wouldn’t they be trying to do it too.

The consequence is that the American people will find it increasingly difficult to trust the results on future presidential elections. No matter who is elected, if half of the population belief that the result was the outcome of fraudulent activity, trust in the presidential system will be slowly undermined.

Just as Donald Trump was undermined by the claims that Russia stole the election and ongoing hostility from the mainstream news media, Joe Biden will find his presidential being undermined by claims that he stole the election, that his family is corrupt, or claims that he does not have a mandate because he only won because people who do not really like him voted for him as the only way to get rid of Trump.

Given the scale of fraud that would be needed to switch an election seems to be beyond the capabilities of an any political actors in the US, it is not surprising that many of them believe that Chinese military cyber-ops hacked the voting systems and switched votes in Joe Biden’s favour after Hunter Biden did a deal with some powerful people in China. A nation that believes that the Russians could steal the 2016 election from Hilary Clinton will have no problems believing that the Chinese stole the 2020 election for Joe Biden.

If flipping votes was as simple as many believe, one possibility is that the presidential election was not a democratic process in which the people elected a president. It might have been a hacking contest between groups of cyber-ops people in the Russian and Chinse military machines, with the Russians supporting Trump and the Chinese backing Biden. It would be ironic if Biden won, because the Chinese have better 5G technology than the Russian.