Time Magazine Uses Interesting Word to Explain How 2020 Election Was Pretty Much Rigged
Source: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
The 2020 election is over, but the feeling that former President
Trump was cheated out of a second term will remain fresh in the minds of
GOP voters. They’re not moving on from this — it could become a 2022
campaign issue. Republicans will have to navigate that very carefully,
however, as these allegations led to the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.
Voter integrity should be something that all sides can agree on; only
the GOP seems to care about enforcing such matters, though.
Yet, this lengthy Time Magazinepiece
goes into detail about the shadow campaign anti-Trump forces conducted
an all-out effort to ensure the 45th president of the United States was
defeated. It’s an oddball grouping too. Left-wing activists and big
business, with squishy Republican operatives. It was a war waged on
multiple fronts. From social media platforms to election laws, this
cadre of folks made sure to “fortify” the election to ensure a Trump
defeat.
Yeah, the piece said this wasn’t a rigged election, it was
merely "fortified." I’ll let you debate that in the comments section,
but it does give Trump some validation in the sense of the anointing
aura that engulfed the nation, especially its news media. As ballots
were still being counted, this was permeating the media coverage.
"Within
days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint
the winner, even while many key states were still being counted," said
the now-former president, which the article concedes, "in a way, Trump
was right."
To
the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,”
Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an
orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states
were still being counted.”
In a way, Trump was right.
There
was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed
the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises
were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and
business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed
joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on
Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit
bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive
racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with
the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on
democracy.
The handshake between business and labor was just one
component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an
extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to
ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more
than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to
shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack
from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President.
Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate
from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial
contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the
shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It
was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a
failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a
hallmark of America since its founding.
Their work touched every
aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and
laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private
funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of
poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first
time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a
harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to
fight viral smears…
[…]
This is the inside story of the
conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s
inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens
of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of
an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also
reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to
interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says
Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law
advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to
understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work
magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”
That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a
well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and
ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions,
change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of
information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying
it.
Is this rigging or fortifying? You have
to love the linguistic gymnastics here. It’s pretty much that, I’d say.
It’s manipulation at its best, but not all manipulation is illegal. It’s
shady. It’s toeing the line of felonious activity, but as we saw on
Wall Street recently, it’s not always illegal, slimy as that may sound.
So, that being said, this is even more disturbing. It further reinforces
what we already know regarding institutional bias. In fact, it’s one
that could kill us as a movement. Big business and the far Left, who
then get a massive layup from the social media giants, working with
government institutions is the type of army that can carpet bomb to
death any movement they feel is against their agenda. You could argue
it’s happening right now.
According
to Time the election was “Fortified” but not rigged. Definitely not
rigged. This is insanity, but everyone should read to learn exactly how
bad it was. https://t.co/dPbXhvGGcx
conservatives
better wake up before it’s too late. corporate power and government
power working together is the true threat. they share the same goals
now. pic.twitter.com/F65Ss0ArBg
Controlling
the flow of information is stuff the Soviets did. In this case, it was
suffocating the Hunter Biden story, one that might have made almost 20
percent of Biden voters think twice before pulling the lever for him.
That’s the election right there.
A bunch of wealthy and powerful
fat cats doling out cash, hiring operatives to control the media
landscape, making sure the spigot is turned off on stories they don’t
like, changing the election laws, executing what sounds like a
subliminal messaging effort, and making social media companies do their
part in all areas on this list. Yeah, that’s definitely not rigging.
Also, again, why are people shocked that populism is on the rise? Well,
when the game is fixed, that sort of is the byproduct.
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