Democrats Use "Conspiracy" As a De-Legitimization Tactic. They Borrowed it from Pharma. Who Borrowed it from Big Tobacco.
Who Borrowed it from the CIA. Election Integrity is Serious Business - And We Won't Be Bullied Out of the Discussion with Mere Labels.
When you hear phrases like “That’s Just a Conspiracy Theory”, “He’s a Conspiracy Theorist”, or “Tucker Carlson’s idea that the situation that led to the wrongful imprisonment of Kyle Rittenhouse was ‘conspiratorial’” - do you shrink away? Are you less likely to share that article or comment on it, or talk about it with friends and family?
How about “Debunked”? Or, more recently “He Was Fact-Checked”?
As a recovering Liberal, I and many, many others who started on the left - stood agog from about 2014 to now as the Democratic Party become a much more Centralized party, gathered around the Holy Feast of Pharma Monies, buoyed by an equally purchased and compromised so-called “mainstream” media. What really got our attention was when they turn the tools of Big Tobacco discredit, confuse, and fake science - against members of their own party.
Saturday Night Live is hardly recognizable anymore; some of their gags - a recent one on the Freedom Convoy - just don’t seem funny. People standing up for their constitutional rights is now the subject of jokes. In the meantime, the headlines are filled with young celebrities, musicians, and athletes all dying far, far sooner than expected… and no one seems to bat an eye.
I find it entirely conceivable that vote-flipping has completely destroyed the final semblance of authentic elections in the US. That does not make me an “election denier”: it makes me an informed historian of US election scandals.
I remember the Diebold Backdoor scandal in Ohio.
I remember Hanging Chads and “Stop the Count!”
I also remember Clint Curtis, a veteran computer programmer’s testimony at a U.S. Congressional Hearing about being contacted by a Florida Congressperson to rig Florida's elections.
There also have been many reports of individuals showing up to vote, only to be told that they already voted.
It’s now 2022, and four days ago, a man was arrested for allegedly sticking a thumb drive into a voting machine (why APNews bothered to report this one, we’ll never know, after all, he was a registered Democrat, after all).
The Heritage Foundation (Heritage.org) has compiled a database of proven instances of election fraud. At the time of this writing, they report over the years:
1,384 Proven instances of voter fraud
1,191 criminal convictions
48 Civil penalties
103 Diversion programs
25 Judicial findings
17 Official findings.
You can click on a map and see the data for your state. For example, in 2019, a man in PA was convicted of voter fraud by picking up "girls" and having them sign absentee ballots in the names of deceased individuals. He pleaded guilty to one count of forgery, one count of false use of an absentee ballot, and two counts of criminal conspiracy, and was sentenced to probation (2 yr) and ordered to pay $500 in fines.
Fortune reported only 475 cases of potential voter fraud in stats that Biden won.
They left off: “that we know of”.
New York Times, meanwhile: “The Times Called Officials in Every State: No Evidence of Voter Fraud”
I’m the type of guy who sees solutions when I see problems. Here’s how to correct what ails the US election system.
(1) Require proof of identification and citizenship at the polls. This is NOT a call to disenfranchise minorities. We simply cannot have people who happen to be here from other countries swinging elections.
(2) Provide each voter should immediately receive:
(a) A paper receipt showing the results of their votes.
(b) The ability to check online or by phone any time after they vote that their vote matches the receipt and has not been changed.
(c) An 800 number and a URL on every paper receipt to report unusual activity at any poll (Heritage Foundation has a report page, but I don’t know what comes of your reports).
(3) Increase the penalties for election fraud to include revocation of the right to vote, larger fees, and mandatory jail time.
(4) Election Integrity should be a high-priority campaign issue - not one made “taboo” by the now debunked labels of “Election Denialists”.
We already have (3) I think, much to the chagrin of the far-left elite.
The fact that Google uses “emphemerals” - suggested search terms that autofill while you’re typing your searches - to bias your thinking along the political spectrum (see psychologist Robert Epstein’s testimony before the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution Tuesday, June 16, 2019 on this).
Let’s see what happens at the Polls in these mid-term in terms of voter fraud. With every case of voter fraud comes a case of voter disenfranchisement.
Are you a Recovering Liberal, or a concerned citizen who wants every citizen to have bona fide assurance of election integrity? What changed your views? Leave a comment.
"Recovering Liberal" is a good way to describe myself. It was around the same time you mentioned, and then - of course, the 2016 election - where I was convinced that the Dem party (or at least those who hijacked it) was not for the common man. Nor women's and children's rights, nor minorities. Nor health. In my mind, what color you were or how you identified would matter not in the face of complete corporate control, and what that would bring, which the Dems seemed more aligned with. Little did I realize how much larger and global that beast really was...
I actually recovered in 2015 when our Governor Jerry Brown signed the forced vaccination bill, SB 277. As for election integrity, we simply don't have it, since nearly all votes are tabulated through proprietary software. Most voters do not know this, but blackboxvoting.org has been documenting this for more than a decade. And universal mail-in voting, an invitation for fraud, made the problem far worse. And Google's subtle mind-bending made it far worse yet. Not a chance in hell 81 million actual voters selected Joe Biden, who has put together by far the worst administration in my memory, and I can remember as far back as President Eisenhower.