Considering the Democratic Impeachment Managers 13 minute introductory video. Can we learn from failures to communicate? A healthy democracy demands an informed and engaged electorate, we won't get there wasting golden opportunities. For instance,
Every time you air reruns of Trump yodeling "election fraud" why aren’t there big legible subtitles and warming labels clearly stating the truth:
*Claims of voter fraud have been countless!
*No substantive evidence for Voter Fraud has been brought forward!
*Over 60 Trump lawsuits were tossed out because of lack of evidence!
*No fraud, Trump lost!
Why wasn’t there a time clock running in the corner to help bring home the flow of events? Also in conjunction with that, why not provide links to resources that are cataloguing the events unfolding in that video? A shot of Trump sneaking back to the White House would have been worth gold! What happened to those people during a particular moments? We The People are curious. Connect us with those stories!
{For a few of those details, see the articles below the fold}
These are costly failures to communicate and connect with the American people!
We can’t afford missing them and helping Americans better grasp what was going on and why it's important for all patriots of a pluralistic democratic American society to stand up and voice our personal support for our American government and its rule of law.
Why? If we aren't changing minds, we are losing. We need to try reaching those angry (and dare I say brainwashed) souls with vandalism in their hearts, we need to help them appreciate how Trump defrauded them.
YouTube channel, Philippe Berry
House manager Jamie Raskin introduced a 13 minutes video of the Jan 6 Capitol attack at Donald Trump second impeachment trial (02/09/21)
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77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election
By Jim Rutenberg, Jo Becker, Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Martin, Matthew Rosenberg, Michael S. Schmidt and Najeebah Al-Ghadban - NYTimes.com
- Published Jan. 31, 2021, Updated Feb. 8, 2021
Hours after the United States voted, the president declared the election a fraud (actually he’d already done that) — a lie that unleashed a movement that would shatter democratic norms and upend the peaceful transfer of power.
… (president’s deputy campaign manager) Justin Clark warned that the suit Mr. Giuliani had in mind would be dismissed on procedural grounds. And a state audit was barreling toward a conclusion that the Dominion machines had operated without interference or foul play.
Mr. Giuliani called Mr. Clark a liar, according to people with direct knowledge of the exchange. Mr. Clark called Mr. Giuliani something much worse. And with that, the election-law experts were sidelined in favor of the former New York City mayor, the man who once again was telling the president what he wanted to hear.
Thursday the 12th was the day Mr. Trump’s flimsy, long-shot legal effort to reverse his loss turned into something else entirely — an extralegal campaign to subvert the election, rooted in a lie so convincing to some of his most devoted followers that it made the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol almost inevitable. … continued
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Trump has longstanding history of calling elections 'rigged' if he doesn’t like the results
The president has refused to acknowledge his loss to Joe Biden.
By Terrance Smith, November 11, 2020, abcnews.go.com
It's been over a week since the polls closed on Election Day, and a few days since President-elect Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential race, and still, President Donald Trump has not accepted the results of the election.
What Trump has done is continue to double down on his claims that this year's election was "rigged" and there were massive amounts of voter fraud nationwide that cost him his victory. … (continued)
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President Trump’s false claims of vote fraud: A chronology
By Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo, November 5, 2020
Ever since the election results indicated that President Trump might fail to win reelection, he has tried to craft an alternative narrative of a stolen election accompanied by major fraud by Democrats. For months, Trump has been laying the groundwork for this strategy. According to our database of Trump’s false or misleading claims, starting in April the president has uttered more than 150 claims concerning fraudulent ballots or the alleged dangers of mail-in voting.
Here’s a roughly chronological guide to his efforts to spin the election result, which, after a 2:30 a.m. news conference Wednesday, has unfolded mostly on Twitter. Many of Trump’s tweets have been covered by Twitter with a warning that they contain inaccurate information about the electoral process. Since Trump’s tweets are often duplicative, we’ve grouped some similar ones together. … (continued)
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Special Report: Stolen election? Republican lawmakers paralyzed by Trump's false fraud claims
By Chris Kahn, Soyoung Kim, Jason Lange, James Oliphant, Tim Reid
February 4, 2021 - Reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On Jan. 6, right after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, 147 Republican lawmakers voted the way then-president Donald Trump and the rioters had demanded - to overturn his election loss, after months of Trump’s baseless claims that the election had been stolen. …
… A month later, the Republican party remains paralyzed by that false narrative. Fully 133 of those lawmakers, or 90%, are now declining to either endorse or repudiate Trump’s continuing insistence that he was cheated by systemic voter fraud, according to a Reuters survey of all 147 lawmakers and a review of public statements they made to explain their votes against certifying the Electoral College results.
Just two of those lawmakers told Reuters they believed the election was stolen through fraud; two others who did not respond to repeated inquiries made similar public statements previously. Ten of the 147 lawmakers told Reuters they do not believe the stolen-election narrative; they cited unrelated reasons for their failed attempt to invalidate millions of votes. …
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This is slightly offsides since it’s dealing with failures in climate science communication and is slightly dated, but it’s worth thinking about in this time of growing awareness that honesty is a moral ethic that needs to be re-taught and defended.
d) Considering our dysfunctional public dialogue in 14 verses. December 30, 2018
1) Uncertainties vs. known Physical Certainties
2) Map vs. Territory Problem
3) Sloppy usage of “Natural Variability”
4) “Seepage”
5) “Global Warming” vs “Climate Change”
6) Responsibilities of Scientists vs Responsibilities of Citizens and Students
7) Define the Debate, A to Z
8) Intellectual Confrontation
9) Call out False Claims & Lies
10) Better than Skepticism ===> Critical Thinking Skills
11) Confront Trash Talk with Rhetorical Jujutsu
12) Faith-based Thinking - God or EGO?
13) The pain of our brave new world
14) WE THE PEOPLE,
Have the right to demand honesty when hearing what real experts are trying to convey, without being flooded with the constant deceptive and fraudulent cross-screaming of the propaganda machine of unhinged self-obsessed oligarchs and their astro-turfing thugs.
For the details visit ConfrontingScienceContrarians.blogspot.com.
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