This story contains a thread common to many of the stories of the news cycle for the past two years:

The election itself was sketchy as all hell. That's part one. But the part that most interests me is the way the establishment has reacted to the questions. Instead of engaging in investigation and working to demonstrate to their critics that the election was legitimate, they instantly declared the opposing view to be heretical. This "jump to heresy" is the feature I'm talking about. They don't work to prove their side right; they declare it to be right and then bring the power of the "monopoly on force" against any who dare to speak an opposing perspective.

There have been several threads on here about the quasi-religious nature of the modern left. This is why. They treat their proclamations as God's word, and shun, ban, starve, kill all who dare even think there might be other opinions.

The increasing violence all around us is the logical twin to this kind of censorious thinking.

Being optimistic, however, I don't think they have the numbers. I think they would need a much much smaller segment of the population in opposition to set up the kind of social authoritarianism which is their goal. Too many of us are calling bullshit, and the calls are growing louder by the day.

If we really want to get past this, the people running this show (Hillary, Bush, Obama, Romney, Pelosi, Cheney, Biden, etc, etc way down the food chain all the way into school boards) must be removed from all positions of power with no chance of return. We need to achieve a culture where even the suggestion of this kind of centralized controlled society is grounds for dismissal from all positions of public trust for the rest of that person's life with no statute of limitations or end to their banishment from public power.