creativesoul

The mistakes you think I'm making are ones I'm not. We need not know everything. Our models need not be able to account for everything. However, if we...

Seeing red... The color red cannot be properly taken into account when and if the practice itself involves situating the result of biological machiner...

Methodological Naturalism.

Just a general overview of what we're all doing here. We are attempting to take proper account of something that existed in its entirety in some form ...

Internal/External. Physical/Non-physical. Physical/Mental. Material/Immaterial. Noumenon/Phenomenon. Subject/Object. Mind/Body. Direct/Indirect. The d...

Seditious conspiracy. Conspiracy to commit fraud against the United States of America. It's illegal to know about a planned attempt at sedition and no...

The irony...

Your lumping all Americans together as supporters of what's happening is akin to each and every stupid fucking gross generalization out there underwri...

Gross overgeneralization. Ironically similar to one of the underlying(but not spoken much about) issues with current political speech patterns.

That which exists has an effect and/or affect.

I can see how that could be true for you based upon what you've said here.

The broadened brush reveals the lack of precision prior to. It does not make up for it. You know better than this.

Yes. That's a problem, not because it costs so much. How current campaigns are financed is the problem. That means violates the Constitution. Again, n...

In order to know that you'd have to be privy to the framers' thought and belief. That's quite a presupposition.

I for one, am thankful for the DNC leak regarding the deceptive practices in the 2020 primaries. I knew it all along. Clinton Obama season had 29 or s...

Who gets to be the final arbiter of truth?

Not clear of the actions he performed or the charges he faces.

American elections are expensive. We agree there. I'm not seeing the relevance that the above has to that agreement. :brow:

THIS WORLD

Freedom of speech is not unfettered. Especially when so few have so much power over what gets put into the public sphere for it's political consumptio...

Unaware of this case.

IS NOT THE RESULT OF TOO MUCH GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION

Could explain the behavior. NOTHING excuses the inaction!!!

Trump was outspoken about these things long before the election. He put that idea into the public sphere when doing so. He openly claimed that the onl...

You're an avid reader. Read for yourself. It's not too long. Very plainly stated.

You had me entirely captivated by your wry wit... ...all the way up to there...

There is no "tightly regulated media coverage" of an American election. Elections are most certainly expensive, but that fact is not due to an inheren...

Shedding light on these failures of governmental implementation is crucial, but you asked for a mechanism... Sanders was the best chance I've seen in ...

Wisdom. Who would take such a sap as I? :brow:

I'm impressed by American democracy. American democracy is by it's very design, a republic with democratic tradition. It is a representative form of g...

Well, that's not supposed to be an argument. Rather, just stating the facts as I understand them. In order to know if the failure is inherent to the s...

A system is only as good as it's implementation. It's not the system that's broken. It's the implemenation. First rule of public service:Provide a ser...

Yup. Antitrust laws - toothless. IRS enforcement capabilities - toothless. Conflict of interest concerns - toothless. Consumer protection agency - too...

Do you know what the hearings have shed light upon thus far?

It's quite disheartening for me to see Americans have such an attitude about such an important proceeding. There were a group of elected officials and...

The judge talked about politicians choosing personal interest over country's, and pointed to the fact that they would not admit to having done so, per...

Agreed. So, Trump supporters' belief that the election was stolen is not based upon evidence. What grounds their belief? What is such belief based upo...

Do you agree?

Trump supporters' doubt about the legitimacy of the 2020 American presidential election are not based upon the motives you've proposed.

It's worth watching in it's entirety. It's not the same old theme...

What evidence supports that belief?

Indeed. Living Color's song has been revisited by myself several times in the past few years. The lyrics are spot on. Almost prescient... Have you alr...

Yes. Trump and his allies have and are continuing to foment doubt in the legitimacy of the election results. Their supporters believe that Trump won. ...

Then we can examine the specific beliefs that ground the doubt regarding the legitimacy of the election.

Specific beliefs that are commonly held by Trump supporters that have been fomented by Trump and his allies that have resulted in an increase in doubt...

I'm looking for an explanation consisting of more philosophically interesting substance. Not political speech.

Doubt in the legitimacy of the government, based upon what?

Be nice for you to unpack that. Doubt of what, based upon what? That's the philosophically interesting approach, keeping in line with the OP's topic.

Since doubt has been invoked... Doubting 'X' is doubting the truth of X. When one doubts 'X', one holds some belief or other(s) that ground(s) the dou...

I get what you're saying here, but when attempting to parse belief and knowledge in terms of being certain and not, we're missing the key elements tha...