Thread by @sunnshiiny

The US seems intrigued by the new Trudeau scandal.

Time Magazine
New York Times
Washington Post.

This is a global smear campaign. Willingly amplified by major US outlets to discredit PM Trudeau on the world stage.

The evidence is in the commentary of each online article.

The comments section is heavily populated by amplification bots for each story. All amplifying the deficit in character of the PM in Canada. Mostly originating, in their profiles at least, from the US MAGA community.

Beyond the jurisdiction of the Canadian Election Act.

One of the objectives of the Finkelstein Method (US style negative campaigning) is to engender disgust in the progressive voter for the main progressive leader. The emotion causes many to cast their vote elsewhere or the voter is so demoralized, they don’t vote at all.

It’s a voter suppression tactic. Anyone who follows politics has seen the stats showing the steady increase in voter apathy worldwide, but they haven’t over layed the use of Finkelstein Methods using voter suppression on those stats. I have below.

Since the mid 1990’s voter turnout has taken a nose dive in Canada. The following chart demonstrates a sharp downturn around 1993. And a steady decline from there.

An astute political observer might note the election of significant numbers of the Reform Party was 1993.

How was this achieved?
Voter suppression.

Leaders of the federal Progressive Conservatives were relentlessly subjected to character assassinations, accusations of corruption, sanctimonious moralizing & a steady flow of disinformation from Reform Party candidates & supporters.

It took time for the tactic to work. Reform emerged in 1987. Long before social media had been invented.

They spent years peddling smears & attacking moderate centrist conservatives who held progressive ideals.

But they were also plagued by the condemnation of moderate Reform Party members and several public infighting episodes nulled their effect.

Until the Canadian Reform Alliance Party (CRAP) was formed, populist politics were never very popular outside of the Western provinces.

Stockwell Day initially led CRAP, but his fundamentalist evangelical Christian beliefs were off putting for many Canadians. But he did manage to purge many moderate conservatives from CRAP. This is when fiscal and social conservatives ousted moderates from their ranks.

Stephen Harper became the leader of CRAP in 2002 & began working with Peter McKay to facilitate merger of PC & CRAP to form CPC in 2003.

By 2003, Harper had managed to purge CRAP of all remaining democratic conservatives, & expanded the libertarian & Socon base within the party.

Interestingly enough, Peter McKay had been doing the same with the PC party. In what can only be referred to as political theatre, McKay helped orchestrate a coalition with disaffected CRAP MP’s who had left their party to protest Day’s leadership.

Most returned to the CRAP fold. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrati…

The dissolution of the coalition led many to question Joe Clark’s leadership of the PC’s and Peter McKay won leadership after Clark resigned.

A noteworthy backroom meeting, hastily arranged by Noël Kinsella, McKay’s campaign Manager, resulted in leadership candidate, David Orchard, transferring his 25% share of mostly Western Canadian votes to McKay to secure his leadership win.

What was discussed is not public, but Harper rewarded Noël Kinsella with Speaker of the Senate early in 2006. A position he held until 2 days before his 75th birthday in 2014.

You can track the dates of the above with the declining voter turnout in Canada. An exact match.

Since the inclusion of populist politics of Reform, Alliance and CPC, represented by the emergence of far right, Dominionist Christian, socially conservative, libertarian small government advocates, the suppression of voters commenced. Continuing to this day.

There are no more moderate conservatives in the CPC. They were purged several years ago.

The Socon’s and libertarians who took over the conservative reputation and “brand” have been using negative politics since the 1990’s.

Stephen Harper won his first seat in parliament in 1993 as a Reform Party candidate & hired Art Finkelstein himself for his campaign strategy.

It’s no accident that voter turnout has declined since 1993. Voter suppression is one of the main goals of the Finkelstein Method.

The US has a long history of voter suppression and efforts to suppress suffrage. You can track the efforts to suppress votes by simply looking at the stats over the history of voter turnout. Notably suppression of non property owners, freed African Americans & women is obvious.

This is the intent of voter suppression. To restrict the franchise to wealthy white property owners. It always has been.

Finkelstein used statistical analysis & carefully crafted negative messaging he called “rejectionist voting” to manipulate voter behaviour.

Finkelstein did this to suppress the votes of progressive voters. Heavily made up of the poor, POC & women.

Easily tracked globally by Finkelstein’s work history.

Finkelstein was instrumental in using his strategy for Nixon win in 1971-72 campaign.

This article reflects the downward trend in youth voter turnout since 1972 - 2000. civicyouth.org/PopUps/FactShe…

Graph shows the downward trend in the 1970’s & staying down until voting activists started serious pushback on suppression efforts. The 2018 midterm election is impressive.

Israel was the first foray outside of North American politics made by Finkelstein. He had mixed results, but Netanyahu was a Finkelstein client.
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/israeli-centra…

Finkelstein expanded to Central & Eastern Europe. Adapting and perfecting his technique with every new client.

One could argue that Finkelstein finished development of the American Libertarian’s weapon of choice to disenfranchise progressive voters and then set about transforming western democracy to readjust world order and universally implement Libertarian autocratic guided democracy.

Statecraft. Soft power. Asymmetric warfare. Whatever you call it, the phenomenon of populist negative politics is now global.

Every transformation in a social democracy and typical moderate politics can be traced back to this method. Globally.

Arthur Finkelstein died in 2017. After Trump’s election by a small margin in 3 key states.

Statistically predicted by targeting citizens vulnerable to negative campaigning, smears & character assassination.

Exactly what foreign & domestic news & SM is doing to Canada.