Analysis: A pattern of our political conversation was well described by an ancient Greek philosopher. The most obvious conclusion to draw from Donald Trump’s repeated insistences that the 2020 presidential election was stolen by fraud is that it was not.
This paradox has been around long enough — and enough people have successfully reached their intended destinations — that we know it is possible to actually travel between two points and not spend your brief existence on this earth taking microscopic steps toward the fridge. But this idea that you can short-circuit the attainment of a conclusion by interjecting imaginary waypoints is useful metaphorically in the moment.
It’s probably useful to extend the analogy a bit here, with the paths intentionally splintered to create new halfway points. The direct route to the goal — there is no evidence of fraud and plenty of evidence no fraud occurred, therefore it didn’t — is turned into a briar patch. The idea that there’s a clear path to the outcome ismuddled by having to dismiss various increasingly intricate assertions about other paths being put forward as equally important.
This pattern is facilitated by the internet in the way that Zeno’s paradox would have been aided by the presence of a nuclear scientist. The scientist could always articulate some new microscopic distance to be traversed; the internet can always find some new, more nuanced waypoint to keep us from reaching our conclusion.
was suspect. And as long as their opponents can be presented as being less than 99.999-repeating percent away from the conclusion, the conspiracy theorists will claim victory.We see this tactic elsewhere, too. In nearly any political situation, there’s always something that someone’s political opponentsdo that can then be presented as a necessary waypoint for reaching the conclusion.
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