[FRIAM] What is the response when bad faith is pervasive and coordinated?

[David Eric Smith]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/politics/election-activists-voter-challenges.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/politics/election-activists-voter-challenges.html>

To moan about this may have some small role early, to try to raise awareness (to compensate for the absence of a News industry that functions as such).  But after that, it ceases to be a response, and decays into an abnegation and a waste of time.

Responses are institutional.  What is the institutional response to what, by now, sort of qualifies as a public movement to disintegrate the society?  “When in the Course of human events [a certain group of people decide] to dissolve the political bands which have connected them [with others]….”   For things that have been around for a long time, like frivolous use of lawsuits, we have arrived at some norms for throwing out mistakes and actively penalizing abuses, a kind of detente within which we can function at some level from day to day.  For more acute recent changes, like handling immigration claims, we are not doing so, and we approach jamming transitions.  For this electoral contesting, I don’t know if there even is an institutional plan.

I would like to have something in my head about this that qualifies as a thought or an idea.

Eric


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