{"id":33958,"date":"2024-05-25T21:29:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T04:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=33958"},"modified":"2024-05-25T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T04:29:58","slug":"book-the-big-truth-upholding-democracy-in-the-age-of-the-big-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/book-the-big-truth-upholding-democracy-in-the-age-of-the-big-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of \u201cThe Big Lie\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1653950807i\/60333414.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of \u201cThe Big Lie\u201d<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/495359.Major_Garrett\">Major Garrett<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/187608.David_Becker\">David Becker<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A Revelatory Account Of The 2020 Election\u2014The Most Secure, Verifiable, And Transparent In American History\u2014And The Heroes Brave Enough To Get It Right The Big Truth\u00a0 illuminates a crowning achievement in America\u2019s quest for a robust democracy in the face of slander by sore losers and opportunists. Filled with interviews of the guardians of democracy\u2014election workers, January 6th Committee members Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) and Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and more\u2014it is an overpowering counterattack against the Big Lie.\u00a0 CBS Chief Washington Correspondent Major Garrett and National Election Expert David Becker, the Executive Director of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation &amp; Research, reveal why Big Lie \u201cfraud\u201d allegations evaporate under scrutiny. They report what\u00a0 actually\u00a0 happened in 2020 while calling out each Trumpian misdirection designed to con and beguile Americans into chasing phantom allegations of election crimes.\u00a0 The 2020 election was not what Trumpist deniers claim. Our political parties knew the rules and procedures. We had record turnout and few election snarls. The an accurate count, a seven-million-vote margin of victory, 306 electoral votes for Joe Biden, and Republican gains in congressional and state races. But then-President Trump stoked paranoia\u2014never looking for evidence, contesting results even before anyone cast a ballot, and seeking to bend our system until it almost broke with a violent Capitol riot.\u00a0 The Big Lie\u2014the true corruption of American democracy\u2014has shaken our confidence in stable self-government. On the heels of voter-fraud claims, the Capitol siege, and damaging voting laws, the next midterm and presidential election will test our democracy more severely than at any time since the Civil War. How we react may well determine if we are led into another war against ourselves.\u00a0 The Big Truth\u00a0 debunks the 2020 election conspiracy myth once and for all, while celebrating those who held up our democracy under arguably the most intense scrutiny in American electoral history.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of \u201cThe Big Lie\u201d Major Garrett,\u00a0David Becker A Revelatory Account Of The 2020 Election\u2014The Most Secure, Verifiable, And Transparent In American History\u2014And The Heroes Brave Enough To Get It Right The Big Truth\u00a0 illuminates a crowning achievement in America\u2019s quest for a&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/25\/book-the-big-truth-upholding-democracy-in-the-age-of-the-big-lie\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33959,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33958\/revisions\/33959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}