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33. There's a difference between legitimate concern...

and incessant speculation and consternation about things that have no chance of happening.

Example: there have been dozens of posts claiming that the states are going to change the way they apportion electoral votes after the election to assist Trump.

Reality: they can't.

https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

That doesn't stop people from continuing to argue and fret over an impossibility.

That's just one example, but we here at DU are well adept at manufacturing things to obsess over that have little or no chance of ever happening. That's the kind of stuff the OP is talking about.

There's no point to it, as all it does is demotivate and demoralize people, when we have an election to win.