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A large part of what separates a free people from those who are oppressed is their ability to decide who will represent them. As long as representatives are elected in a free, fair, and transparent way people can remain free. Elections that aren’t free, fair, and transparent, or appear not to be such will serve as the catalyst that eventually strips citizens of their freedom. It takes a number of colluding forces to separate people from their God given freedoms and liberty. The year 2020 created the perfect storm for bad actors. Activist democrats, apathetic republicans, and a biased media and social networks all played a part.

The thirst for power is a dangerous motive. In 2020 it was the democrats who seized the opportunity to gain near total control of our government. (If the democratic Senate candidates win the Georgia runoffs, democrats will have total control). They took advantage of the pandemic. Capitalizing on their “Never let a crisis go to waste” philosophy they took full political advantage of the COVID crisis. They took advantage of a frightened and meek citizenry. From March until November over 400 election related lawsuits were filed in the states, with emphasis on “battleground states”. Most were filed by democrats trying to get states to relax, or eliminate, election laws that had been put in place by state legislatures. State legislatures, as per the U.S. Constitution, have total responsibility for writing state election laws. Lawsuits were filed to extend the date that ballots could be received and still be counted, and to reduce the requirement for signature verification on mailed ballots. They were filed to increase the number of people who could receive mail-in ballots, and to allow unaffiliated people to gather or “harvest” ballots. They filed suits to remove the requirement of specific postmark dates on mail-in ballots. In short, every change that democrats were suing for would weaken the systems designed to eliminate voter fraud. Republicans were guilty in this process as well. Not for participating in the democrats nefarious activity but for being either too stupid, lazy, or unconcerned, to do anything to stop them.

The media played an inestimable role in the election. Never before in history has the American media acted as one-sided in presidential elections as it did in 2020. Every word uttered by President Trump in the run up to the election was scrutinized and demonized. Every decision he made was reported negatively. When his accomplishments were too great to lie about they simply refused to report on them. Meanwhile V.P. Biden stayed in his basement. Never before had the press allowed a presidential candidate to avoid stating his policies and answering questions. When he confused his wife for his sister, or announced he was a democrat running for the U.S. Senate, those watching network news, CNN, or reading a newspaper never saw it. His missteps were too many to be ignored. But that didn’t matter to the terribly biased news media. They were complicit in helping elect a dementia addled 78 year old man. The media’s decision to stop reporting the news and become part of it is the most dangerous problem for our Republic going forward.

Along those same lines is the role that social media played in this election. Google, Facebook, and Twitter, decided they wanted Biden to be our next President. They did everything they could to see that happened. Trump’s only dependable method of getting his message out to the public was through his Twitter account. Twitter continually blocked his messages and many times blocked his account entirely. Imagine the audacity of anyone, other than a foreign adversary, blocking the messages of the President of the United States! Messages posted by an array of conservatives were routinely kept off-line by all three. It was also reported that for about a week Facebook sent election reminders only to liberals. The worst case of bias involved the lack of reporting of incriminating details concerning Hunter Biden’s connections to Ukraine and China. Immediately upon posting the story about the Bidens, the New York Post had its Facebook and Twitter accounts blocked. The social media giants also blocked the accounts of every American who had the audacity to discuss the article on their own personal accounts. At the same time nearly every newspaper in the U.S. turned a blind eye to the story. The effect this had on the election is easy to calculate. Biden voters were asked if they were aware of the alleged Hunter Biden issues. Around 50% of them said they were not. Nearly 10% of that 50% said they would not have voted for Joe Biden had they known. That equates to a little more than 4 million votes. Trump lost the battleground states by a grand total of less than 200,000 votes. It becomes very clear that the decision to keep the American people in the dark in an effort to elect Joe Biden achieved its goal.

Combine a health crisis with a power hungry political party, throw in a duplicitous media and social network and you end up where we are today. The foundation of our Republic is the belief that we control our own destiny by electing the people we want to govern us. For our Republic to survive we must believe that our elections are free, fair, and transparent. Tens of millions of Americans believe this election was stolen, that their votes weren’t counted. They will become difficult to govern if they think elections don’t matter. Americans must stand up and demand ironclad changes to election laws in their state. Our representatives don’ seem to have the gumption to make the necessary changes. Therefore we citizens must do everything we can to insure there will never be another election like this one. If we don’t historians will recognize 2020 as the year the silent majority became the silenced majority.