Letter: Conspiracy theories lead to fraud
A common human behavior pattern we’ve all observed: a person screams foul, furiously pointing the finger of blame outward, and then – surprise! – it turns out they are guilty of the very thing they are accusing others of doing.
Case in point, Barry Morphew of Chaffee County, Colo. Mr. Morphew fraudulently submitted his dead wife’s ballot for Trump because he was misinformed into believing the evil Democrats were cheating. Did I mention that, in addition to voter fraud, Morphew has been charged in the murder of his wife and for tampering with a body and with evidence? Yikes.
Then there’s the dead mother Trumpers of Pennsylvania: two men who both attempted to vote in their deceased mothers’ names. One, throwing himself at the court’s mercy, pleaded that he did it because he had “listened to too much propaganda.”
The pattern continues in Maricopa County, Ariz., where florid conspiracy theories spun by Qanon Republicans prop up the Big Lie of Democratic voter fraud. The Republican official in charge of Maricopa elections, a responsible public servant, has responded to the madness, saying: “Wow, this is unhinged…We can’t indulge these insane lies any longer. As a party. As a state. As a country.”
Finally, the GOP spent years investigating Benghazi because, they railed, the American people deserved the truth about an incident that cost American lives. Now, McCarthy and McConnell are going full-Orwell to rewrite Jan. 6 and obstruct a Congressional investigation into the terrorist lynch mob that violently attacked our nation’s Capitol.
David Ninehouser, Ambridge
