You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

Overheal has already laid it out for you just how wrong you are on this but let me just respond as well in case you take me not doing so as some sign that I think you are right.

You absolutely, categorically are not. What you are attempting to do is to equate valid concerns with actual illegality and not that you yourself have any great influence (no more or less than any of the rest of us) but to allow this narrative to be put out there is not only false, it is dangerous when it happens on a wider scale.

The Trump administration ultimately had over 200 indictments served on people associated with it, many for conduct around the 2016 election with respect to engaging with people and other nation states. Not just indictments, but prosecutions, convictions, and sentences (and pardons as well as we all are fully aware).

There are ongoing investigations in to the actions of Trump (and other Republicans) in trying to force people to behave in a certain way following the 2020 election. Several sitting Republican representatives were involved in steps to attempt to circumvent the counting of electoral votes.

The wife of a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court was heavily involved in steps attempting to have the result of the election overturned.

Over 60 cases were brought to various courts attempting to influence the outcome of the election and every one of them, every, single, one, was rejected. Several right wing media platforms are being effectively sued for implying that the equipment used in the counting of votes was being manipulated to change the outcome of the counting process.

And of course we all watched love in HD the happenings of January 6th, 2021. Jesus Chr*st, Trump himself and his close confidants announced before the election that they wouldn't accept the result.

As already pointed out previously, the former White House Advisor (and future prison inmate) Steve Bannon even instructed Bolsonaro to deny he had lost the election that Bolsonaro himself accepted he lost.

And absolutely Democrats have cried foul before, in 2018, Kemp oversaw the scrubbing of several hundred thousand people from voter roles in Georgia and then had his office oversee the investigation in to what happened and refused to recuse himself from being involved, despite being one of the 2 candidates in the race that it was done before. Kemp won that election by just 54K votes so given what had happened, Stacey was entirely justified in claiming she had been robbed, and in bringing cases to court also, (as Trump was) but she, or none of her supporters resorted to violence or acts like we have seen Republicans do where they have hounded on county and state election officials who they feel didn't do enough to make sure the 'right outcome' was achieved.

Even when George Bush won the election over Al Gore after the Supreme Court stepped in to halt the counting of ballots and refusing to allow a recount, Al Gore conceded and faded in to the background. But the reaction is so incomparable, it bears no relation to what we have seen Conservatives do.

And the same goes when it comes to responding to violent acts, the lack of contrition for what Paul or Nancy Pelosi suffered, the juvenile jokes about it by people running for very high office, the attempts to twist and deflect and spread patently false rumours are all acts of throwing fuel on the fire that is US politics right now.

And with respect to crying foul about elections it's all part of a plan and Republicans know all this, at least the smart ones do, and they know that there is a strategy to their action which is as much focused on the future as it is on the past even though that is what they keep referring to. They have muddied the water enough that they could try to do anything in next weeks election and when fingers are pointed at them, they'll scream that people told Trump to accept the outcome of the election and Democrats should do the same now. They know that less and less people see themselves aligned with the direction of the party, they haven't won a popular vote in god knows how long, and as people continue to become educated and recognize that the world they are living in is less and less like the world the Republicans say it is, they have to rile people up in order to make them feel threatened from immigrants, or socialists or Greta or whatever other bogey man suits their cause

I'll repeat a point I've made here several times but I know some people have goldfish like memories, not all Democrats are angels on earth, they don't have all the answers or are totally devoid of being influenced by corporations and influences but at least as a party, they're trying to do things for the better of society rather than attempting to let it burn if it means they can be the kings of the ashes as a certain GoT character once said.

TLDR : Fcuk off with the both sidesing attempts. All the evidence, from the mouths of the key players involved tells us that both parties are not equal in this respect. Didn't the right wing have a catchphrase for a while that 'you're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts'. They should consider it wisely.

From the French Parliament today.

Does anyone of a right leaning persuasion want to 'game theory' the next 5-10 years for me and how they think that this type of influence might play out?

Thankfully, recent political news has indicated some progress in the right direction.

Bolsonaro beaten, Trump's ideology taking a hammering the states right now, Putin having to withdraw from the only city Russia captured since the invasion. Sunak already being shown to have only used the words about integrity in order to gain positive headlines.

No suggestion that there still aren't things to be concerned about, Starmer denigrating young people worried about the damage being done to the planet being one such thing but I'm going to take the positives when they appear.