The roots of the purported 'Big Lie'

A large chunk of voters say they wouldn't have voted for President Biden if they'd known about the Hunter Biden laptop. (Air Mail photo)

What really is the Big Lie? Who really "stole the election" and disenfranchised American citizens? By my way of thinking, it is the Democratic Party, their allies in the mainstream media, and politically compromised government officials who "stole the election" in 2020.

As evidenced in a Reuters poll taken after the election 39% of Democrats knew nothing about the Hunter Laptop, the "big guy" [Joe Biden], or Tony Bobulinski. And, if they had known, 17% stated they would NOT have voted for Biden. The mainstream media and Democrats called the laptop news story Russia Disinformation and buried the damning laptop. After the election Hunter publicly confessed, he is under FBI investigation.

Efforts disenfranchising Americans leading up to January 6^th include but are not limited to: Clinton Campaign sponsored crimes to overthrow a duly elected president, verbal threats to the Supreme Court, an unconstitutional impeachment based upon a fake dossier, flawed Mueller investigation, false Nick Sandman allegations, false Rittenhouse narrative, ignoring hundreds of sworn affidavits about ballots arriving in the dead of the night, and turning a blind eye to documented fraud (whether enough to overturn an election or not) rather than work to instill confidence in our electoral process.

During the summer of 2020, American cities were destroyed in riots reported as "mostly peaceful" and leading Democrats fund-raised bail monies for individuals arrested. Rioters attempted to take over the White House, Trump was evacuated into the White House bunker, a historic church was burned, and injured 60 Special Agents in the attempt.

The Democrat standard: violence is acceptable if you are a rioter, attacker of police officers, or an arsonist destroying American cities during the "Summer of Love."

If Democrats acknowledged the depositions claiming fraud at the polls and promised to ensure the restoration of confidence in the electoral process instead of promoting a no voter ID requirement, not cleaning up voter registrations, mass mailing in ballots, and ballot harvesting, and no concern for ballots appearing in the dead of night anger on the part of Americans would have been tempered.

We should be asking: (1) Why are all the videos of Jan 6^th on Capitol Hill not publicly released? (2) Why was Sicknick's cause of death presented as a lie? (3) Why are leading ranking Republican Members of Congress not allowed to sit on the Committee investigating Jan 6^th? (4) Why is the fact that Trump authorized 20,000+ National Guardsmen two days before Jan 6^th ignored? (5) Why did Pelosi and Bowser not accept that offer? (6) Why are Trump's words to go "peacefully to make your voices heard" ignored?

Cheryl Russell is a former high school teacher and 30-year employee with the U.S. Department of the Treasury. She lives in Dover.