Ever since news outlets projected that Joe Biden had won the 2020 election on November 7th of that year, Donald Trump has publicly disputed the result, calling the election “rigged”, “stolen” and a “fraud”. His efforts to overturn the election culminated in his second impeachment in January of 2021, for which he was subsequently acquitted.
While I haven’t looked in detail at the allegations that the 2020 election was “stolen”, I have never seen any compelling evidence that they are true. Hence the harsh criticism Trump received for attempting to overturn the election seems justified. Whatever else may be true, it’s entirely improper for a politician to go around calling an election “stolen”.
Which raises the question: shouldn’t Democrats be held to the same standard?
Back in 2022, the Republican National Committee put together a video titled ‘12 Minutes of Democrats Denying Election Results’, with the first three minutes focussed on the 2016 election. It includes clips of Hillary Clinton and various other Democrats referring to Trump as an “illegitimate President”, and describing the election as “not on the level” and indeed “stolen”.
As you’ll recall, Trump’s entire presidency was overshadowed by allegations that his campaign had colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. Yet following the much-touted Mueller investigation, “not one single American was charged, indicted or convicted for conspiring with Russia to influence the 2016 election” – to quote the journalist Glenn Greenwald.
In fact, a study published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications found that very few individuals were exposed to the Russian influence campaign on Twitter, and it had zero influence on their attitudes and voting behaviour. (The study did not look at other social media platforms like Facebook.)
Election denial, then, isn’t just a Republican thing. It’s bipartisan – with politicians in both parties disputing the results of elections they lose. And interestingly, their antics seem to have shaped the views of the rank and file.
According to a recent survey, the percentage of Democrat and Republican voters who endorse election conspiracy theories is remarkably similar. Sceptic Research Centre asked 3,000 Americans whether they agreed that the 2016 and 2020 elections were “fraudulent”. Results are shown below.
As you can see, 49% of Democrats agreed that the 2016 election of Donald Trump was fraudulent – which is only nine points less than the percentage of Republicans who agreed that the 2020 election of Joe Biden was fraudulent. Overall, a sizeable chunk of both parties’ voters endorse election conspiracies.
For the last three years, the media have been running with the narrative that it’s Republicans who deny elections. The truth is that partisans on both sides of the aisle play fast and loose with democratic norms when it suits them. And given that 2016 came before 2020, it was arguably the Democrats who started it.
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There is clearly something going on beyond just ideology. Why is the trans agenda being pushed so hard and who is behind it? Unscrupoulous politicians looking for the next victim group to ‘champion’ and then abandon when they’ve moved on to the next? Depopulation enthusiasts happy to help people to sterilise themselves? Pharma companies, surgeons and
psycho-the-rapistspsychotherapists who stand to make big money off of all the drugs, surgeries and treatments?If someone with expertise in the field notices an increasing number of children bringing up concerns they hitherto had not, and the children doing so are increasingly younger, it suggests the children are being fed ideas and they are not voicing these concerns out of their own awareness.
Are we all being groomed for a time when a 5-year old suggests that he or she is “attracted to an older person” and we should then accept this as normal and encourage it? This whole development is beyond insidious. A child cannot have a sip of wine or one puff of a spliff due to concern for longer term damage (which we rightly deem them too young to comprehend), but pumping them full of hormones and chemicals is just hunky-dory?
One of the things that really bothers me about this is that I do not doubt that there are children, teenagers and adults who are struggling with some type of identity crisis, depression, anxiety issues, however one wishes to term it. It would now appear that most of that will quickly be categorised as some type of gender issue, drugs will be administered, and whatever is truly causing their unhappiness will be ignored. When they remain unhappy after self-identifying or fully transitioning, they are then abandoned, as their use as political victims is over.
A partial explanation, perhaps, is that on the one side activists have an ideology and a well-tested playbook of infiltration and propaganda. I noticed it a few years ago when you would have half a dozen articles in one day in (say) The Independent on gay marriage, homophobic attacks, rainbow flags etc. That’s all gone, because society was successfully conditioned, but now there are half a dozen articles at a time on people going trans, on transphobic attacks, and flags like a Dulux patch-chart.
On the other hand, the rest of the society (probably thinking they’ve outgrown religion), has no ideology and so caves in to the one on offer, failing to notice that they have been groomed over decades to an ever more bizarre belief system in which they can’t even be sure that the ground under their feet is real. As you rightly say, paedophilia seems the new rising star – and that was on the agenda way back when Foucault and the trendy left were advocating it in Paris in the late 1960s.
Look for the origin of the trajectory in the first intellectuals to advocate the abolition of the family. Abolish the most fundamental human ties, and atomised and confused individuals can be manipulated at will (ie, the will of those who stand to gain).
The trans push is being used so that once ‘transness’ is made normal the push to legitimise paedophilia will be ramped up. I am convinced that paedophilia is at the root of our current problems. One way or another too many people have been trapped in paedophiliac webs which is why they so readily go along with the orders of the Davos Deviants.
The grooming gangs issue has never been fully investigated and it is now clear why – too many officials are caught up in this. They dare not let the people know what is really going on.
https://stopworldcontrol.com/wef-pedophilia/
This is a disturbing read. Whether we believe it or not an awful lot of world politicians appear to have been compromised and this article suggests the reasons why and how.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-01-07-oregon-hospital-expansion-gender-mutilation-children-castration.html
And there’s more.
As it’s (see other comment) based on the necessarily religious assertion that humans are a composites of souls and bodies which are inherently different from each other and that there’s some procedure/ deity pairing souls with bodies which doesn’t always work (and they’re doubtlessly secretly convinced that it really never works) what’s going on here is simple: It’s a cult (and a particularly digusting and dangerous one as it glorifies chirugical multilation of teenagers to turn them from biologically functioning mammals into bizarre fantasy creatures).
Sounds to me like they want to make trans compulsory!
How did we let things slide this far?
It’s almost as if there is some sort of Common Purpose infiltrating these organisations one by one.
It bears repeating here that the ideological basis of this nonsense is the Christian body/ soul duality, something people with a Christian background have been strongly conditioned to believe in. But who is the trans-god Stonewalls claims to have created its souls somehow ‘trapped’ in bodies (as opposed to the conscience being a function of the body just like the digestive system)? If they’re preaching in xis name and seek to proselytize, they ought to tell us. Also, their status should be changed from charity to an organization of the Scientology-type, ie, a modern day (pseudo-)science religion.
Some of us Christians are hylemorphic dualists, rather than Cartesians, and that’s a lot more consistent with the biblical view and totally opposed to the “wrong body” idea. Who would want to worship the god who can’t even get his assembly process right?
One of the points I was trying to make is that Stonewall, being modern, certainly rejects the notion of a god and especially, the Christian god. They’re just stealing the concepts and hope nobody notices this (a very common practice for all branches of wokery). But without one, their central theological (for it is one) axiom makes no sense.
A fair observation though this duality of soul separate from body has never been used as some sort of subversive mechanism within Christianity and its teachings – as a Christian my soul being separate from my body gives me great comfort knowing I won’t need my body after it dies (to continue on somewhere). If Christianity – The Religion had some nefarious intent, the orthodoxy would’ve eventually used it for some evil purpose – off the top of my head.. you can commit suicide with no consequences to your soul (which is separate).
Maybe you can, I’m not all-knowing of course but there’s something inherently negative about suicide, conversely challenged by our celebration and respect for life. Of course some might argue Jesus committed suicide on the cross though that is surely misguided. Jesus did not desire to die, it was the Romans and the state of humanity at that time that put him on the cross. Jesus was giving us a reason for hope.
So where there are similarities in this duality of body and soul within Christianity it’s never been used for evil so the similarities are only coincidental – why our leaders within the CofE should know better. Why this more recent push to use it as a mechanism to confuse our young is evil at its very core (at least with no definitive evidence – I’m open to change my opinion but on the face of it it’s highly subjective). That and other more disturbing trends like arguing the case to rid ourselves of the so-called useless eaters is all borne out of pure evil in my opinion.
They’re certainly not coincidental. The w-hucksters have also misappropriated the original sin in various forms, eg, white privilege, male privilege, (completely idiotically) German privilege (some American actually came up with that) and I’m convinced they’re either doing this intentenionally to exploit the already existing acceptance for the concepts in their target audience or because it comes naturally (so to say) to them because of their own Christian background.
I think this makes an important counter-argument here: People can only be trapped in their bodies if these just something like a garment they’re forced to wear. Hence, someone preaching such theories ought to be able to answer the question If people are separate from their bodies, what are they and where do they come from?
Again, fair enough though with those examples and beliefs like that, some might argue they’re not Christian anymore (or perhaps never were). I’m reluctant to get too bogged down in to the orthodoxy and dogma of Christianity, it’s riddled with inconsistencies. The best way to describe my personal beliefs is I am a Christian (because I was brought up that way) and find comforting fables to explain things and live my life.. but I’m not religious.
Christianity and by extension.. Religion is a funny phenomenon, our humanity trying to define the impossible. Sure there are fundamental beliefs that are formulated with no proof or perhaps even make sense, that is its power which can be used for good AND bad – why it’s difficult to argue against your comparison.
On the whole though it’s been a force for good, though if out of context with all other commandments this duality of body and soul suddenly becomes its achilles to argue the case of sex and gender being separate it’s a subversion of its true meaning – a meaning of there being more to life that this simple existence – not.. you’re a woman in a man’s body etc etc. That’s a perversion of our confusion with the unexplainable. A longing for there being something more than just our physical body. (as I said, I’m open to change my opinion, but on the face of it with next to no evidence, there’s no doubt we’re experimenting with children’s lives).
Interesting discussion RW