By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / January 23, 2025
SUMMARY: Americans did not change their views causing the Big Lie to be elected. Their views were bastardized by the unprecedented number of lies and the Fascist oligarchy dictator strategies of the Russians and their allies abroad and at home. “Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact checking The truth is smothered by lies, told for power and for profit.” (1) The same strategies were applied to both the 2016 presidential election and to our climate culture. Because this bastardization was caused by lies, the results are illegitimate. Resist. It’s up to us now.
The deliberate nature of the lies, untruths, and misinformation, and their fantastic volume, made it the most unfair election cycle in contemporary times. Great danger now comes from the penetration of false knowledge into our culture, that caused the unfair and illegitimate election of the perpetrators of deceit. The popular press was complicit. They regurgitated misinformation, half-truths, contextual theft, and blatant lies without consideration of their veracity. This biased consumers away from truth.
The volume of lies overwhelmed reality. It negated the validity of a free and fair election creating illegitimate results. The 2024 presidential election was fraudulent. An identical concept can be seen with climate change, the Climate Change Counter Movement (we all know what this is) and nefarious Russian players that weaponized social media to cast doubt on climate pollution. The extreme volume of blatantly false interference communications created illegitimate climate change knowledge, and has caused our climate to pass a threshold where existential tipping is now active.
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