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….The People Whose Franchise They Were Trying To Suppress Were NOT Low Information Voters?
When I listened to Dean Del Maestro on Evan Solomon’s radio show on Saturday I was aghast.
At just about everything he said.
But I was truly flummoxed when Mr. Del Maestro tried to wave away the weight of bedrock evidence of widespread voter suppression by stating that it was all impossible because 900,000 more Canadians voted in 2011 than in 2008.
Now, before I get going here I want to explain my use of the phrase ‘bedrock evidence of voter suppression.’
Why?
Because you read, see and hear all kinds of mewling in the proMedia this week about how, so far at least, unless you are talking about Guelph, all we have are lots of baseless accusations.
Which, of course, is codswallop.
Because, while it may not be possible to state precisely who did what with absolute certainty where at the moment, there is no doubt about what happened.
And what happened, clearly, were widespread fraudulent attempts at voter suppression on a massive scale.
Yes.
Fraudulent.
As in fraud.
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Now.
To come back to this ‘900,000 more voters means no suppression took place’ business.
Of course, we who are actually paying attention know this is nothing but the pretzel logic of a defective neo-sophist that makes absolutely no sense at all.
But I don’t really care about that the garbage that spews from the mouth of the likes of Mr. Del Maestro and comrades.
Because they are nothing but an empty vessels whose bilge tanks are filled with putrescence every morning so that it can be flung on anyone with a camera or microphone that comes within 100 feet of them during the ensuing day.
Instead, I’d like to talk about how the people behind the curtains where the Del Maestros of this world stand and spew.
In other words the malignant ‘wizards’ who command the army of junior Segrettis and run expedient campaigns wherein they get people to vote for their side by destroying others.
It is that old ‘politics of destruction’ battle saw that Lee Atwater first started to seriously sharpen thirty years ago.
A battle saw that Karl Rove and Roger Ailes then filed down into razor blades that they used to slice up the entire American body politic into tiny quivering masses of protoplasm for their propaganda zombies to gnaw upon.
And they sent both north.
Destructive razors and prop-zombies both, I mean.
But…
“So what!”, you are probably saying at this point.
What does any of this have to do with voter suppression?
Actually, absolutely nothing.
Because the voters that the body politic destroyers want for their side are the ones who can’t look at things as they are and make up their own minds about who and what they want to vote for, and/or why.
Instead, they are the folks who vote based on who they have been told to deride and hate while they are simultaneously hoodwinked into worshipping a few fake jingoistic symbols that mean nothing at all, particularly in terms of how they will actually be governed.
Or.
Put another way, these wizard/generals are very good at capturing ‘low information’ voters to put X’s beside the names of people like Mr. Del Maestro because they don’t know any better.
But therein lies the rub when it comes any data mining that was done to identify any and all voters to ‘suppress’.
Because the latter are the opposite of ‘low information’.
Instead, they are citizens who are engaged and who have signaled who they want to vote for, not against.
And engaged people do not go quietly into the night when they are screwed over.
Which is why more than 30,000 well-informed people have already contacted Elections Canada about their concerns about attempts to screw them over personally and, I would be willing to bet, even bigger concerns about attempts to screw our entire democratic process over royally.
And those 30,000 Canadians are also the reason why one scapegoat, which I am now seriously starting to think might have been put together as a zombie-goat a year ago (ie. in the spring of 2011) so that it could be flung into the proMedia maw at the drop of a hat when needed, just will not do the trick this time.
OK?
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