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🚨 DECIPHERING NED DROP 1️⃣: WHAT IS? "DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING" 🗳️

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a U.S. taxpayer-funded NGO with active members of Congress on its board. While it presents itself as a promoter of democracy, in practice it has long served as a front for the CIA, carrying out foreign influence operations that would be politically or legally unacceptable if done directly by U.S. intelligence.

As I've documented extensively in threads and on Substack, NED also works closely with George Soros's network of NGOs and has largely adopted his ideological agenda, especially overseas.

They publish an academic journal, NED Journal of Democracy, which is extremely revealing.

The New World Order- that is, the world order that dominated since the Cold War- is based on the concept of "Open Society" versus "Closed Society."

Peace and national security is not measured in terms of absence of war or violence, but in terms of how many countries are an "Open Society."

It doesn't matter if a country elected their own leader in a democratic or peaceful way. If they are not an "Open Society," they are a "Closed Society" and thus an enemy.

It is a binary worldview, binary mindset.

Under the same binary worldview, assimilation of other nations as Open Societies is the top priority of foreign policy. Which means- pouring massive amounts of foreign aid into them (and NGOs). And military intervention if that fails, as with Afghanistan or Iraq.

Remember, this worldview is strongly binary. They cannot suffer other opinions to exist. If you oppose foreign aid, or oppose military interventions for regime change, you are a member of a "Closed Society" and thus the enemy. This makes MAGA-style populism just as big a threat as Russia, if not worse.

And this is the thrust of NED. They are ostensibly the CIA front and should be spending their time discussing other nations. But in reality, they spend as much time discussing how to handle dissident opinions in the USA as they do. They see MAGA as a national security threat.

If this scares you, good. It should. This is what most of intelligence and Congress supports.

This is the reason why our infrastructure crumbles, our health care system decays, SS goes bankrupt, but they keep insisting on sending foreign aid.

They don't care about Americans because Americans are their enemy.

Now, NED and other Open Society aligned groups have their own set of vocabulary. It will be through these drops that I will slowly decipher the vocabulary.

Let's start off with the most simple- 99% of the time, they don't refer to themselves as "Open Society." Instead, it's "pro-democracy" or "Western."

With that in hand, we'll look at the first article of the day today... "Misunderstanding Democratic Backsliding", by Thomas Carothers and Brendan Hartnett, published in the Journal of Democracy, Volume 35, Number 3, July 2024.

"Backsliding" is used a lot in these journals, especially when talking about the post-Trump United States.

What does it mean?

You might think it refers to things like election fraud, political violence, or coups. Sometimes it does. But just as often, "backsliding" is used to describe perfectly legal, democratic elections... simply because the winner isn’t to the liking of global elites, NGOs, or foreign-policy circles, including CIA/NED.

Here's a quote which indirectly defines backsliding: "The onus for backsliding belongs on those leaders who gain power for a wide range of reasons... but then once in power relentlessly amass unconstrained power by overriding countervailing institutions and undercutting basic democratic norms and procedures."

Note the keywords "overriding countervailing institutions." That's NED and Soros-speak for themselves. Backsliding happens when people elect populist, America-first leaders or vote against corruption.

This is a definition that is used almost universally across universities, media, and foreign policy officials. They have effectively re-defined democracy to mean themselves and their network of NGOs.

Trump's election and re-election means the United States is "backsliding." Doesn't matter if he was democratically elected- he is automatically an enemy of democracy because he isn't for Open Societies.

Also from the article: "Backsliding is less about a failure of democracy to deliver than about a failure of democracy to constrain — that is, to curb the predatory political ambitions and methods of certain elected leaders."

Translation: Democracy is backsliding when courts, media, NGOs, and bureaucracies fail to stop elected populists from exercising their mandate.

Think a minute about what that means. NED / CIA is outright saying that in order to save democracy, you have to use anti-democratic approaches to subvert the will of the people.

They're actively writing articles about how to take away our vote, how to ban the Republican party, and so on.

As I've said many times, active members of Congress sit on NED. This is is what our politicians think of us. They hate us to their core.

The article proposes a barrage of media coverage, NGOs, courts to stop backsliding.

Sounds a lot like exactly what is happening today.

🔥 Think about what this really means.

NED is openly arguing that to "protect democracy," we must override democratic elections, weaken voter power, and use unelected institutions to block political outcomes they don't like.

They are publishing articles on:
🔹Whether to end voting rights for populists,
🔹How to ban anti-establishment parties, and
🔹How to channel foreign money into media and NGOs that manipulate the political process.

These strategies are being funded and implemented globally on your tax dollars, and it is also happening right here in the United States.

Members of Congress sit on NED's board. This is how our political class thinks.

Let it sink in: They do not want you to choose your leaders. And when you vote the "wrong" way, they call it backsliding, and look for ways to stop it.

In short, they despise you. And if you despise them back, you are the threat to democracy. 🧨

This ends Drop 1️⃣, but more to come. 🧵end

Final note, if you think I'm being sensational... then you have a short memory.