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“Big picture” observation - a Biden win isn’t even the ultimate goal. A short (cynical) thread. 1/x
What’s more aggravating - the fraudulent votes, or the systematic suppression of any questioning of the election results themselves? Going into the election, many of us didn’t wonder if there would be cheating - we wondered if there would be enough cheating to make a difference.
What’s been shocking (and shouldn’t be) is how blatant some of the fraud has been, and how media/tech/establishment is blatantly gaslighting half the country by claiming “no evidence of any fraud.”
The “don’t believe your lying eyes” gaslighting isn’t new. In Texas, anyone who looks around knows that we are nowhere near 50% Democratic voters. Yet that’s what we’ve been told the last several election cycles. It’s jarring, but that’s because IT ISN’T TRUE.
Same with several other states, and the country as a whole. The 2 political parties are so vastly distinct, the ideologies so completely and diametrically opposed to one another, and yet for more than 20 years we are told that we are within a few percentage points for President.
There’s a bigger game that’s played at a higher level in DC. It’s subtle. Most politicians don’t even realize they are playing it. It’s the “us vs. them,” “my side vs. your side,” “divided government is best government” mindset.
We are trained as people to believe in fairness. In sports, both teams get the same number of players. We play on a “level playing field.” And this we also instinctively (yet incorrectly) think that ideologies would “naturally” distribute semi-equally as well.
But that’s just not true. There are moral absolutes, there are irrefutable laws of nature. And there are some worldviews and ideologies that are objectively worse than others.
So why are the parties always seemingly so neck and neck? How is it the country is seemingly so “perfectly” divided? Because by keeping the people bickering among themselves, the elites can actually exert the control behind the scenes to enrich themselves and their friends.
I spent some time in DC, working in both the House and the Senate, for some fairly conservative Congressmen. I was SHOCKED at the disdain and disgust that most of the staff had for the Tea Party. “Don’t they know we have to compromise to get things done!?!”
Policy ideas and ideological positions coming from the rubes rather than being blessed and pushed by the party leaders was unacceptable. It threatened to upset the status quo and balance of power that has been so carefully curated with the assistance of the media.
We are told what positions to take in relation to our political parties, and then these positions are subtly reinforced through media manipulation, social bubbles, and politicians’ pontifications, until we think that those positions were always our own.
Did anyone else feel the disconnect at the start of COVID? For 2-3 weeks, I had several liberal friends worried about Trump dictating lockdowns over a typical virus, and several conservative friends freaking out over grandma dying.
Here was a important national matter, and I didn’t know how ANYONE from either side would feel about my position when talking about it. I had to be more circumspect in how I discussed it, and couldn’t assume how someone would feel based on party affiliation. It was weird.
But we were quickly told what each side was supposed to believe, and eventually we all fell in line and began arguing about it as good little Republicans and Democrats are supposed to do.
And how did they do it? Not by convincing us that “our side” was right, but by convincing us the “other side” was wrong. Or more precisely, that the “other side” didn’t care about our own positions, or didn’t care to even listen.
Climate change, helping the poor, racism, Trayvon, “Hands Up,” “black lives matter,” lockdowns, mask mandates, the 2020 election - those who want to engage, learn, analyze, and come to a conclusion are called “skeptics,” “deniers,” “racists.”
This really became clear to me during the Obama years. I don’t recall the specific time, but a video was released that showed a cop shoot a black man in the back as he ran away. There was national outrage FOR A FEW HOURS. Then nothing. No Obama quip about it. No push for change.
It was the Trayvon and Michael Brown incidents, where some people asked to see and hear what actually happened before jumping to a conclusion, that became the big stories. Obama deliberately waited to stoke the flames on those instances where he could divide the people.
It’s what we are seeing now. Biden winning was the goal, but doing it in such a way that no matter who comes out on top in the end will leave half the country thinking the President is illegitimate. 4 more years (at least) of infighting among the populace.
And it is done with purpose and with the help of mass media, big tech, and other power brokers, both in DC and globally. Our side is supposed to see the fraud, their side is supposed to see a President that refuses to concede. May God have mercy on this country.
