Democrats and the media that shills for them are warning the public that if Trump is elected he will weaponize the federal government to go after his political enemies. Yet this is what the Democrats have been doing for the last several years. Democrats impeached Trump on the claims of a whistleblower who admitted having not directly heard the call phone call to Ukraine’s Zelensky. Democrats impeached Trump a second time, charging him with incitement of a riot for telling a crowd in the context of a permitted First Amendment event to peacefully and patriotically let their voices be heard. Democrats have charged Trump with multiple counts in multiple venues for nonexistent crimes. Now Jack Smith is back with another document.
The DOJ threw Peter Navarro in prison for four months on a contempt charge by a kangaroo court. The DOJ, working at the behest of the same kangaroo court, threw Steve Bannon in prison for four months on a contempt charge (Bannon is still in there). The DOJ handed down lengthy sentences to Americans who merely entered a government building on January 6. The DOJ has traveled around the country harassing and intimidating citizens suspected of supporting Trump and the populist movement. Yet the Establishment tells the public that it’s Trump who will in unprecedented fashion weaponize the government. Believing these things, citizens have taken up guns and attempted to assassinate the President.
Many in the public have been tricked into falsely believing that Trump is a convicted felon and an adjudicated rapist. They falsely believe a conspiracy that he tried to overthrow the government and steal an election. They falsely believe that there was an insurrection on January 6—an insurrection by unarmed civilians either provoked by a police riot or allowed into the building by Capitol police officers. They falsely believes that police officers were killed on January 6. These false beliefs brings many of those who read Smith’s document to find in there what I cannot: a conspiracy to overthrow democracy. Indeed, it appears to me that conspiracy to overthrow democracy is itself a conspiracy to overthrow democracy.
How could such illusions be passed off as reality? How could millions be blinded to the reality that it’s Democrats who have weaponized the government against them and their leaders? This is power of the mass media moving across the terrain of a profoundly indoctrinated population. Propaganda is real and powerfully effective when aimed at a population conditioned from infancy to believe a particular ideology.
But not everybody is so easily deceived. In fact, on the problem of election integrity, according to Rasmussen Reports, most Americans suspect something was wrong in 2020 (62 percent of all thse surveyed believe it was “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that cheating affected the outcome)—and worry that something like this will happen against in 2024 (with 66 percent reporting that they believe it is “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that cheating will affect the outcome). There’s a reason why the corporate media and Jack Smith obsess over Trump’s claim of a rigged and stolen election; they need to manufacture the appearance that he or his supporters are alone in this belief. But they are not alone.
This is what lies behind the Jack Smith case. The Establishment is making an example of Trump because he disputed an election that the majority of Americans also find suspect. They need to obscure the reason why this election so close, namely because so many Americans believe deep down that the case against Trump is manufactured. If a majority of Americans believed the 2020 election was legitimate, then Trump wouldn’t be the nominee. And the fact that he could win this election speaks volumes about where the public is on the matter. The illusion of a democracy that the corporate state has manufactured is in danger of crumbling. Real democracy is poking through.
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