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The Conspiracy To Save Democracy

2/5/2021

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Over at his blog, Vox Day has shared a link to a Time Magazine article that essentially serves as a straightforward admission of evil. Though The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election focuses exclusively on a "noble" conspiracy that worked behind the scenes to save American democracy, the article transcends its subject matter and instead serves to exemplify the explicit nature of the totalitarian evil that now controls the world - an explicit evil that, at this point, should be abundantly clear to everyone (yet, magically, isn't). Although it offers some virtuous-sounding but otherwise brittle justifications for the actions and events outlined within its paragraphs, the article itself is essentially little more than an open confession of conspiracy. 
The conspiracy does not surprise me in the slightest. Nor does the confession. But the direct nature of the confession is rather impressive. 

The real message is startlingly clear - we're crooked and corrupt and we're not afraid to show it - we're evil and we know it.

​And we want you to know it and embrace it.  

A few choice excerpts from the article (emphasis added): 


A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.

The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.

Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump’s ouster.

A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. “It was all very, very strange,” Trump said on Dec. 2. “Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.”

In a way, Trump was right.

There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.

The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.
 . . . 
This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”


Yeah, we conspired, and we conspired hard, but we did it all to save you and your democracy. So, how about showing a little thanks and appreciation . . . 

The System is not merely corrupt; it is irreparably good-proof. And don't take it from Vox Day, or me, or anyone else. Take it from the Establishment itself. 

This article provides a good example of the various ways the Establishment tries to lull you to their side.

If you haven't already begun to do so, I urge you to begin the process of system-distancing now - there's simply no other way forward at this point. 


Note added: System-distancing involves rejecting democracy and other evil abstractions as potential vehicles for hope. Just stop and recognize once and for all that hope cannot exist within the System because it has been rendered hope-less. Any and all hope exists only beyond the System. 
9 Comments
William James Tychonievich
2/6/2021 09:55:16

The second link goes to Vox again, not the Time article.

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Francis Berger
2/6/2021 13:48:34

@ Wm - Fixed. Thanks!

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William James Tychonievich link
2/6/2021 09:58:01

You left out the best quote:

"That's why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it."

The Babylon Bee's take:

https://babylonbee.com/news/casino-claims-they-didnt-rig-the-slot-machines-they-just-fortified-them

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Francis Berger
2/6/2021 13:49:48

@ Wm - I was planning to save that quote for a future post.

Love the Bee's take on this. Killer paper.

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Michelle
2/6/2021 12:07:43

It's a strange and eerie feeling here in the states... I can't fully explain it. For many, it's a complete shock and revelation that everything is wrong and there's nothing they can do about it. Like being pinned down on the ground by someone 100x stronger than you and realizing that fighting is futile. The realization that it's all screwed up, every single thing you based your every day life on was not what you thought it was and is now explicitly against you. The system- the establishment, or whatever you want to call it- hates you. The whole system- and yes that means the "right wing" media and others that have been feeding you your information, hates you. They don't want you to breathe, to talk, to breastfeed your baby without a mask, to dissent, to smile, to hug, to sing, to work, to send your kids to school, to choose your government, to find truth, to be a Christian, to worship your God (unless it's the system itself), nothing. They hate you and they have always hated you. And now you are just figuring it out.

I think there is a sort of system-distancing happening right now for millions. For me the realization that the system is corrupt to the core and hated me came 20 years ago, almost to the day.
My journey to find truth when I realized everything- everything- including myself- was screwed up. My journey led me to God. Maybe this is the beginning of a mass journey back to God. That is the only way anything will get fixed.

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Francis Berger
2/6/2021 17:37:09

@ Michelle - Good comment.

I do my best to avoid slinging Bible verses on this blog, but your comment immediately brought John 15:18 to mind: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." At first glance, there doesn't appear to be much comfort in the passage, but when I really think deeply about the magnitude of what Christ revealed in that verse, I am no longer troubled by the world hating me.

Yes, I do believe some people have woken up to the innate wickedness of the System, but inevitably feel powerless against it. In some form or other, we are all physically dependent on the System, which leads many to believe that system-distancing is impossible. But in my mind, system distancing is a spiritual act rather than a physical act. If you can swing both, great; however, remaining physically connected to the System out of necessity is a much different thing than remaining spiritually connected to the System out of some perceived necessity.

What They want above all else is spiritual surrender. What they cannot abide is spiritual resistance, defiance, and independence. The simple act of quietly saying, "No, that is not true. It is a lie" to oneself carries immense power.

Your final paragraph addresses something crucial in system-distancing. It is more than freedom from; it is also a freedom for. Thus, the moving away must be complemented by a movement toward. Perhaps we will see something like this develop among the masses. It certainly is happening at the individual level.

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Ingemar
2/6/2021 18:51:41

One thing that has been frustrating for me is trying to explain what the System is to my parents, who are still under the spell of its various tentacles. (It also doesn't help that my father works for the IRS).

There is an epistemic gap I think, and a motivational gap as well. I think it's because both of them have internalized a "go along to get along" ethos which is particularly ironic for my father who felt mistreated at the hands of the Navy. They also seem to think that the behavior and revealed preferences of the current Roman Catholic Church are just fine.

Well meaning as they are, they believe that everyone's universal aspiration is to live off retirement funds and social security--or failing that, to become a religious in the Church which is now almost wholly dependent on the secularist State.

But it could just be that I have done a poor job of explaining what the System is.

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Francis Berger
2/6/2021 20:34:34

@ Ingemar - That's a tough one. The time for explaining might already be in the past. Things have developed and are developed in such a way that they should not really require explanation. Every person should, at this "point" be able to recognize and understand things for themselves. We can continue to press our concerns, but we must be prepared to have those concerns ignored or rejected.

Seeing those we love willingly and actively choose the wrong side is painful. I believe we must rely on faith and love in such circumstances, and hope and pray to the Holy Spirit to provide guidance to those we love.

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Crosbie
2/6/2021 20:12:46

"Instead, an eerie quiet descended" Quite a boast. That eerie quiet is still with us. At this point I wonder if eerie quiet will be with us for the remainder of my natural life (say, 30 years).

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