Hubris: Elites brazenly gloat they rigged election…and that’s good news for us

If one of us had declared that a “cabal” of elites, composed of Big Corporate, Big Labor, Big Tech, Big Green, and Black Lives Matter had all conspired to rig the 2020 election, we’d have been called nuts.  We’d be tinfoil hatters, far-right loonies, and denizens of the dreaded QAnon.

But surprise, surprise, the cabal has come out of the closet in a shocking piece that ran in Time magazine titled: “The Secret Bipartisan History of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election” by Democrat-with-byline Molly Ball:

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.”

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. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

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