The 0.1%.

My wider family have recently been seeking to purchase a new home.  Buying a new home is one of life’s great joys.  But it is also one of its great stress points, new job, marriage, and death being the other ones.  

However, when the finish line is in sight, there is a warm feeling.  Almost there.  99.9% certain we will get it over the line.  And emotionally that is a big high.  But as our common sense keeps reminding us, it is not a deal till the papers are signed.  And so it was for us.  Going through the fine print, there it was a problem.  A big problem that was big enough to have to walk away from.  But even though emotionally we want to be over the line, rationally we know we must not simply trust someone’s word, or our emotions, that it will be all right.  We know that there is only thing that matters.  A legal document.  A document that may end up one day in a court.   

Which brings me to ask you an odd question.  If I were to offer you a gun and tell you that I was only 99.9% certain that it was not loaded, then invited you to point the said gun at yourself and pull the trigger, would you?  If like me you would decline the trigger pulling opportunity, you may be also amazed by the number of highly intelligent, otherwise independent, and level headed people who have decided that 99.9% is 100%.  

I am of course alluding to the presidential election in the USA.    Has Biden won?  I suspect he has.  And all the best to him if he has.  The numbers are certainly going that way.  

Has the result been 100% proved?  No, it hasn’t.   Some polls are being contested.  

Now of course those doing the contesting may being nothing more than mischievous.  Seeking to undermine the democratic vote.   But the reality is, main stream media has, almost without exception, decided that 99.9% is good enough for them.  

99.9% equals 100%.  It is a Biden victory.  Say it often enough and people will start to believe it.   And at the extremes, that can have terrible consequences. 

We have all have read about, or even participated in, the experiment where everyone in a room says one thing about an incident they witnessed.  But you know you saw it with our own eyes totally differently.  But as the experiment shows, when up against it, most people accept the narrative of everyone else in the room, even though they know it is wrong.   You go with the flow, the path of least resistance.  And the MSM (the people in the room) narative says 99.9% equals 100%.  Say it often enough and people accept it.

Surely, rather than saying Trump is a bad loser and he should concede, the press in a democratic nation should be encouraging Trump to put any evidence before a court.  There he will be humiliated beyond measure.  Or it be found to be the 0.1% who was right.