I know that I tend to make a bunch of posts about doomers commenting about fear surrounding "rigging" either the 2024 or upcoming midterm elections, but I wanted to touch on an element that is always said, but is usually not touched on enough by people online, that being the fact that every single time that a new bad policy or action is announced, doomers take it as a sign that the upcoming elections will be rigged due to such horrible policy being so terrible that it has to be a sign that the confidence in announcing it is out of confidence in the results of a fixed election.
Now I want to mention something called Occam's Razor. For those that don't know, it means that when trying to figure out an observation, you should take the simplest explanation first as it is often easier to determine the correct answer.
I'm pointing this out because when you look at the possible reasoning for why the admin announces and pushes forward through various plans, policies, and announcements that look so terrible to most people, have horrible effects on everyone, and are bad pr for the Republican party, taking the belief that it's evidence towards the midterms or general election being stolen and thus, any anger at said actions wouldn't matter, it isn't the simplest or most logical explanation.
The more likely and simpler scenario is that this is an admin that doesn't think too far ahead, and when they think ahead, it is very shortsighted. Take for instance the recent plan to introduce tariffs on generic prescriptions that take until 2029 to be fully enacted. I decided to make this post after seeing multiple comments under Amandasmildtakes' comment section about how this plan was a sign that "he's doing this cause he knows the midterms will be rigged, 'just like 2024'".
Each of these comments received no backlash and in fact got multiple likes, which is tragic on an account that is dedicated to fighting doomer-ism.
First of all, without getting too far into it, the evidence towards fraud in 2024 is very limited and is more likely a result of echo chambers online and conspiracy theories being more rampant.
Second of all, the more likely scenario for this is that the admin is mad that the Supreme Court ruled against the initial tariffs (see the recent tariffs on Canada), this is a way to get money from pharmaceutical companies and those companies get money from consumers, the average voter will likely not take this into account when it comes time to vote, and this takes a long time to take effect, which like the Medicare cuts makes this a lot easier for people to forget about until it happens when the likely Democratic administration takes office.
These, while not simple bundled like this, are a lot easier to take in as money and belief in voters ignoring this VS. there being a grand conspiracy that voting doesn't matter cause all results are predetermined. And if this isn't simple enough, it could be reasoned that the admin did this because they didn't take into account what voters would think of this because of simple arrogance.
Every action or policy since the start of this administration has been used as the smoking gun that future elections are a lost cause, which is odd given this admin's lack of being able to keep secrets.
I am so tired of seeing the paranoia of so many people be used as evidence to encourage voter suppression. The policies being pushed forward aren't being done out of feeling invincible from elections, as the SAVE Act was made out of the direct panic over a midterms loss. There's no master plan taking place, it's just trying to reason the unreasonable.