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“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” —John Adams (1797)
The Democrat Party and its Leftmedia propagandists have spent most of the last three years telling us that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 election.
But in truth, we now know that this was an epic charade set up by way of real collusion between the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton, and the Democrat National Committee.
Their goal? To ensure the appointment of a special counsel and a subsequent investigation to end the Trump presidency, or at the very least undermine his administration’s policies by calling into question the legitimacy of his presidency.
We also know that the Russians did meddle in the election, mostly by way of odd and inconsequential social-media posts. But foreign election meddling is nothing new, and there isn’t a shred of evidence that Russian interference in 2016 changed even a single vote.
By comparison, it is the Demo/MSM tag team that has posed the biggest threat to free and fair elections for almost 50 years — and it is remarkable to think how different our current political landscape would look if the media coverage was actually balanced.
The Leftmedia’s “in kind” donations to Democrat candidates are the equivalent of billions of dollars in promotional advertising, but not a dime of it is ever declared. If Democrats actually care about electoral integrity why do they oppose the most basic requirement...voter ID?
More recently, however, efforts to corrupt the process have been bolstered exponentially by homegrown aggressors whose influence on the 2016 and 2018 elections went virtually unnoticed, but whose influence will have an enormous impact on the 2020 election and those beyond.
While the Demo/MSM was distracting the nation with Trump/Russia collusion claims, the BIG Tech social-media behemoths were busy perfecting the means to shape opinions and, thus, shape election outcomes.
The biggest offenders are Facebook and Google (both under leftist management), which have institutionalized the use of automated algorithms designed to influence the political views of tens of millions of their customers, thus undermining national, state, and even local elections
. And, in a remarkable example of the “BIG Lie” hubris, they’ve done so while pretending to oppose and ferret out “fake news” on their respective platforms.
In Senate testimony an avowed Democrat used his expertise to decode and expose how these all-powerful social-media influencers are shaping our elections — and how they’ll do so again in 2020 on an accelerated scale.
Dr. Robert Epstein, a Harvard-educated Clinton supporter and the senior research psychologist with the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (IBRTA), opened his testimony by declaring, “I love America and democracy [but] I am not a conservative.
I have been center/center-left my whole adult life.” He continued, “I believe in a free and fair election more than I have any kind of allegiance to a candidate or a party.”
Highlighting some of the most revealing aspects of Epstein’s research, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) asked him, “Google is, through biased search results, manipulating voters in a way they are not aware of?”
Epstein replied, “On a massive scale.”
Epstein replied, “On a massive scale.”
He noted that IBRTA’s research indicated that biased Google search results provided 2.6 million votes to Clinton in 2016, but clarified, “That 2.6 million is a rock-bottom minimum.”
“The range is between 2.6 and 10.4 million [votes], depending on how aggressively they use the techniques I’ve been studying now for six and a half years … such as the search engine manipulation effect, the search-suggestion effect, the answer-bot effect and a number of others.
They control these and no one can counteract them. These are not competitive; these are tools that they have at their disposal exclusively.”
Regarding the 2018 midterm election, Epstein testified, “In 2018, I’m sure [Facebook and Google] were more aggressive. We have lots of data to support that. And in 2020, you can bet that all of these companies are going to go all out.
And the methods that they’re using are invisible, they’re subliminal, they’re more powerful than most any effects I’ve ever seen in the behavioral sciences, and I’ve been in the behavioral sciences for almost 40 years.”
Epstein then dropped this bomb: “In 2020 — if all these companies are supporting the same candidate — there are 15 million votes on the line that can be shifted without people’s knowledge and without leaving a paper trail for authorities to trace.”
Sen. Cruz asked, “A handful of Silicon Valley billionaires and giant corporations are able to spend millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars collectively, massively influencing the results of elections?”
Epstein responded, “Senator, with respect, I must correct you. If Mark Zuckerberg chooses to send out a ‘Go Vote’ reminder just to Democrats on Election Day, that doesn’t cost him a dime.
And the chorus of whistleblowers from inside these Orwellian giants is growing. Former Google engineer Kevin Cernekee says that Google is preparing to “make sure Trump loses in 2020.”
Epstein wrote an article in 2017 about Facebook’s algorithms and “the dangers in allowing big technology companies to decide which news stories are legitimate” — like daring to suggest that there are only two genders.
Of course, Big Tech’s defenders were quick to suggest that Epstein’s research was not legitimate. And to provide cover, Facebook just completed its internal “bias audit” that, laughably, determined it was not biased.
But Epstein’s research and conclusions are on much firmer scientific ground than the Left’s “climate change” agenda.
Currently, Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and congressional investigators are actively pursuing antitrust actions against Google, Facebook, and other tech giants
State attorneys general may join those actions. And there are significant legal cases being built by content providers like our friends at Prager University after their nonprofit educational media company was placed on YouTube’s “restricted list.”
Despite the fact that all rational observers have dismissed the “Trump/Russia collusion delusion” as the hoax it was, the diehard Demo “true deceivers” still embrace that narrative and are advancing the threat to impeach Trump in order to obstruct his successful MAGA agenda.
This charade certainly threw the 2018 midterm election to the Democrats, so it is understandable why they can’t let go. And they are also promoting a recession that, if they pull it off, may provide them a one-two punch to knock Trump out in 2020.
John Adams warned long ago that we must never “lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.”
The infection of our elections by Big Tech has now created an epidemic of corruption — at great peril to the future of Liberty.
