I cannot thank conservative journalist/commentator (and editor in chief of thefederalist.com) Molly Hemingway enough for this.
Following, via Jordan Boyd’s article for thefederalist.com are key points in Ms. Hemingway’s testimony before the House Administration Committee, yesterday, regarding the malleable, easily subverted joke our election procedures have become.
“We have allowed the private takeover of government election offices by partisan oligarchs and their armies of activists who use those offices and their authorities to tilt the election toward favored candidates.”
“The situation is so absurd that we have presidential and gubernatorial debates weeks after some people have already voted.”
“Instead of having full security and a verifiable chain of custody for ballots being issued, cast, and counted, we flooded addresses across the country with tens of millions of unsupervised mail-in ballots months ahead of elections frequently to locations from which voters, if they’re even alive, have long since moved, instead of having election administration that is rigorously nonpartisan and impartial under the law.”
“Instead of voters being able to vote for the candidate of their choice, powerful interests backed by wealthy oligarchs are working to remove the most popular candidate and the ruling party’s chief opponent from the ballot in a move reminiscent of Soviet Russia.”
“And if that weren’t enough, instead of the top candidates being chosen by the people being able to fully engage in a vigorous campaign heading into an election, we have one side actively attempting to throw its opponent in prison and bankrupt his family, again, reminiscent of Soviet Russia instead of a system of rule of law that gives Americans the same rights and due process”
“We have a press that is almost exclusively the arm of one political party and is so corrupt that it is willing to perpetrate hoax after hoax against opposition party members instead of a vibrant public square where Americans can debate issues and express their strongly held views.”
“We have an elaborate censorship industrial complex, where the government works hand in hand with tech oligarchs to suppress and blacklist debate on all the important issues that contribute to election outcomes. This is something I know firsthand because our government worked with tech companies to censor me for my election reporting.”
As Hemingway described in her 2021 book “Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections,” “nonprofit groups with very strong ties to the Democrat Party and funded by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, took over government election offices, most notably in the Democrat areas of swing states.”
The introduction of “Zuckerbucks” to American elections, Hemingway said, was just the beginning of a widespread and growing campaign “by partisans to further infiltrate government offices to ensure favorable outcomes.”
“Allowing just one of these attacks to infect our electoral system would be a crisis. Allowing all of them at the same time is an existential threat to our system of self-government,” Hemingway cautioned
Want to see the video? Use the link I’ve provided above, and there it is.
With admitted immodesty, I will point out that just about everything Ms. Hemingway said has been said and discussed in this blog.
But I didn’t say it at a public hearing, and she did…to her eternal credit and my (and I hope your) eternal thanks.
But…
…now watch how fast her comments and her all-too-legitimate concerns are buried, by the same media she accuses of doing just that.
We’re talking about today’s US mainstream media. And, for most of them, truth and self scrutiny are the last things they want to engage in.
