Rigged?
by Dave Winer Monday, August 8, 2016

Saying the election is rigged is like shouting fire in a crowded movie theater. 

It's an indictment of the entire country. It's much more likely to be something a loser says, we know that, and only a dishonorable person makes that statement without lots of hard-to-refute evidence to back it up. So far none of the accusations about the current election have any evidence behind them. 

And for a journalist to repeat the accusation, without extensive irrefutable evidence, is malpractice of the worst kind. 

Maybe it should be rigged? 

Michael Wolff echoes something I've said in a previous post

"I don't think he'd ever take office, even if he wins. I think there would be a coup first. I don't think the oligarchs who really run this place would ever let him run the military and the economy. They may be greedy bastards, but they're not stupid." 

When faced with a choice of survival and the Constitution, survival is the correct choice. However the best outcome is for Trump to be defeated at the polls, so we can keep our form of government, and avoid what would come from a Trump presidency.