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“RIG”:
1. to manipulate or control, usually by deceptive or dishonest means (“rig an
election”); 2. to fix in advance for a desired result (“rig the contest”)
When I was a little boy growing up
in the 1950s, one of America’s most-watched TV programs was the legendary CBS
quiz show, “The $64,000 Question.”
At its peak, an astonishing 55
million Americans were watching the show weekly, mesmerized by contestants
answering impossibly tough questions and winning astronomical amounts of money
– then having to choose whether to keep their earnings or risk it all to double
their haul, from the $1,000 question to the $2,000 question, to $4,000, $8,000,
$16,000, $32,000, and finally the grand prize of $64,000.
Other TV quiz shows, like CBS’s
“Dotto” and NBC’s “Twenty-One” rode this huge wave of popularity, all achieving
sky-high ratings and ad revenues – that is, until May 1958 when it was
discovered that “Dotto” was rigged, winners and losers having essentially been
pre-selected by the show’s organizers.
Before long, the whole quiz-show
phenomenon came crashing down, as former contestants from other programs stepped
forward to confess they too had been “coached.” One contestant, a Christian
minister named Rev. Charles E. “Stony” Jackson, gave details to a grand jury,
testifying as to how he had been provided answers during his “screening” that
enabled him to emerge victorious. But his conscience bothered him, and he later
spilled the beans. Within a few weeks, “The $64,000 Question,” “Twenty-One” and
“Dotto” were history, and the president of CBS, Louis Cowan, was forced to
resign.
So that was my introduction to “rigging.”
Sitting at our kitchen table and listening to my parents talk about it, I can
still remember the surprise I felt as a 9-year-old. It was jarring. It made no
sense. Why would anyone do that? What’s wrong with people?
Today, of course, as an adult I
understand that fallen human beings often set aside ethics and honesty in favor
of lying and cheating – and sometimes robbing and stabbing people in the back –
to get what they want.
Which brings us to the 2016
presidential election. For starters, the entire Democratic
Primary – carefully orchestrated to create the illusion of a fair contest
between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and intended to draw in tens of
millions of Americans, create excitement and generate tons of money – was one
giant fraud. The program’s organizers had pre-selected the “winner” and rigged
the show to permit no other outcome.
As long as the contest appeared
fair, the public loved it: Millions of Sanders supporters got fired up, held
rallies that filled stadiums, donated lots of money and voted their hearts out.
The vast Clinton machine, meanwhile, could barely fill a medium-sized school
lunchroom rally, but racked up hundreds of millions in Wall Street money and
virtually all of the unearned “super-delegate” votes. The “mainstream media,”
in their pathetic role as full-time propaganda wing of the Clinton campaign,
did their part and enthusiastically reported how great Hillary was doing and
how far ahead of Bernie she was – thanks primarily to the DNC’s outrageously
rigged super-delegate system.
When Sanders voters eventually
realized (with WikiLeaks’ help) that the whole affair was a cynical charade
meant to fool them into believing their candidate ever had a fighting chance,
they felt betrayed and complained bitterly. But no problem: While Team Hillary
bought off Bernie at convention time and appointed a new DNC chair to replace
outed primary fixer Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the establishment was busy
rolling out yet another game show – an even bigger, more exciting and high-stakes
one – called “The 2016 General Election.”
‘Coaching’
contestants before show time - As Donald Trump rightly observed
throughout the campaign and despite his ultimate victory, the whole election
process was rigged on many levels, most visibly, of course, in the absurdly
biased news coverage of the two candidates dished out by the establishment news
media.
Based on an in-depth analysis of 588
news stories on ABC, CBS and NBC, a staggering 91 percent of broadcast
networks’ election coverage of Donald Trump was outright hostile, according
to the Media Research Center. No
surprise there, since the Center
for Public Integrity has revealed that
96 percent of journalists’ donations to presidential candidates went to Hillary
Clinton.
Thanks to WikiLeaks, the media
collusion became so overt as to be darkly comical – with, for example, Donna
Brazile (the new and improved DNC chair who replaced the disgraced Wasserman
Schultz) being revealed to have acted as a Clinton mole while working at CNN,
passing Sanders intel on to Hillary’s campaign and tipping off Clinton about
multiple town hall questions ahead of time.
Sort of like quiz-show honchos
fixing the contest by secretly “coaching” their chosen winner before show time. Since most of what the public sees
and hears about the presidential candidates comes to them through the totally
pro-Clinton filter of the major media, the “rigged” label seemed fair enough.
Ironically, journalism is the one
profession explicitly protected by the Constitution in the First Amendment.
Why? So it could not be crushed, interfered with, intimidated or otherwise rigged
by a power-mad government. Unfortunately, no law, not even the Constitution of
the United States, can stop people – including journalists – from being
dishonest, deluded or just stupid.
Rigging
the vote
Media collusion is just the most
visible part of today’s “rigged system.” Every election season brings with it
talk of voter fraud. As a rule, Republicans say it’s real, while Democrats say
it’s right-wing paranoia (while simultaneously calling Republicans racists
intent on “suppressing” minority voter turnout).
The reality? From touchscreen voting
machines that magically switch votes from Republican to Democrat, to alarming
numbers of non-citizen voters and repeat voters and “walking dead” voters and
so on, not only do voter fraud and abuse constitute a threat to America’s
elections, but the left actively encourages such
abuses – for example, by maniacally fighting to quash common-sense voter ID
laws.
As Pulitzer-winning columnist George
Will explained on Fox News’ “Special Report with Brett Baier” on Oct. 17: I think when most Americans hear
that an election is rigged, they think of government action to rig the
election. And there Mr. Trump has a point. It is hard to think of an innocent
reason why Democrats spend so much time, energy and money, scarce resources
all, resisting attempts to purge the voter rolls – that is, to remove people
who are dead or otherwise have left the jurisdiction. It’s hard to think of an
innocent reason why they fight so tremendously against voter ID laws. They say,
that burdens the exercise of a fundamental right.
The Supreme Court has said that
travel is a fundamental right. No one thinks showing an ID at the airport
burdens that fundamental right. We know,
we don’t surmise we know that
the 2010, ’12 and ’14 elections were rigged by the most intrusive and
potentially punitive institution of the federal government, the IRS. And I have
talked to lawyers in a position to know, they say it’s still going on that
the IRS is still intolerably delaying the granting of tax-exempt status to
conservative advocacy groups to skew the persuasion of this campaign.
Undoubtedly, the left’s biggest
vote-rigging strategy remains rigging the electorate itself by importing as
many immigrants as humanly possible, since statistically the vast majority of
modern-day migrants, legal or illegal, lean Democrat. The left doesn’t seem to
mind that, in the process, America’s culture, values, economy and national
security are being permanently harmed. Creating a permanent progressive voting
majority is paramount, regardless of the cost, to assure uninterrupted
progressive rule and to prevent those evil racist Republicans from ever again
taking charge of the country. That’s how the left rigs the game.
Thus, for example, a large and
ever-expanding Hispanic immigrant population put both Arizona and Texas “in
play” for Democrats in 2016. As former Republican Rep.
Steve Stockman of Texas has said, it’s
“an open secret Obama is trying to flood Texas with illegals to make it into a
blue state” with a Democratic majority.
Now let’s delve into the heart of
the matter. If we really and truly understand how and why we are living under a “rigged
system,” then and only then is there hope to change it.
Unrigging
the game
What are the rules of the American
system? From its inception, America’s legal rulebook has been the U.S.
Constitution and the various state constitutions. Our nation’s economic system
has been free-market capitalism, and biblical, Judeo-Christian values have long
undergirded our dominant culture and moral code.
Question: While everyone knows
America has been wrenched away from its roots in all of these areas in recent
decades, who or what has instigated the rebellion against – and virtual
abandonment of – this nation’s core operating systems? Answer: The left.
Whether you prefer the term “the
left,” “progressive,” “Marxist,” “statist,” “socialist” or “communist,” it is
the left that has relentlessly undermined, defamed, attacked and ultimately led
the near-total rejection of all that made America great.
Throughout his presidency, Barack
Obama has labored ceaselessly to rig (“fundamentally transform”) the American
system on every front. For example, Obamacare. Both Obama and Hillary Clinton
are on record as claiming what they really wanted
all along was total socialized medicine, codenamed “single payer.” Thus Obama
and the Democrats repeatedly lied to the American public and barely passed
Obamacare into law, expecting it would fail and thereby lead inexorably to what
they wanted all along.
In October, the media breathlessly
reported what conservatives had predicted for years – the dramatic unraveling
of Obamacare. Failure, you see, was always part of the rigging. An unwieldy,
unworkable, monstrous hybrid of private insurance and government control,
Obamacare would inevitably fail, destroying the private insurance option and
leaving only one way forward, however despised by most Americans: total
government control of health care.
Texas Rep.
Louie Gohmert recently affirmed this scenario to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto: “You had clues all along the way,” he said. “They knew
this was gonna cost a fortune, that things were gonna skyrocket and they
anticipated someday they would get to this point and tell the American people,
‘Well, we gave the insurance companies a chance, and now the government just
needs to take it over. …'”
Rebelling
against the highest law
Our courts are rigged. Judges, like
politicians, cynically swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, while many
revel in violating it. Why? Because their left-wing moral and ideological
sensibilities impel them to rig (“transform”) the American system by abandoning
its core values, which they pretend to embrace but secretly hold in contempt.
To put it plainly, the party and ideology
of rigging is the progressive-left
Democratic Party. The whole Alinsky modus operandi is to work within the system
one detests – as a clever alternative to outright revolution – so as eventually
to overthrow the hated system, in this case, the Constitution, capitalism and
biblical morality.
Indeed, it’s not just man-made law
like the Constitution that the left is obsessed with subverting. As I wrote
recently in “How
the left revels in violating the 10 Commandments”:
The political and cultural left simply cannot operate without violating all of the Ten Commandments. …
The great British leader Winston
Churchill (whose bust was ejected from the White House immediately after Obama
took office in 2009) described socialism as “the gospel of envy.” Churchill’s
concise phrase encapsulates two profound truths: One, socialism is a religion
to its adherents, and two, it appeals to and institutionalizes one of the darkest
parts of human nature – envy. In thus glorifying and ennobling covetousness,
socialism not only violates, but utterly rejects, the Tenth Commandment: “Thou
shalt not covet.”
What about “Thou shalt not steal,”
the Eighth Commandment? What is “wealth redistribution” but left-wing
demagogues’ pious euphemism for stealing from one group and giving a small
portion of the spoils to others, thereby amassing an ungodly amount of wealth
and power for themselves? …
How about the Sixth Commandment,
“Thou shalt not kill” (or “Thou shalt not commit murder”)? Setting aside the
100-200 million people slaughtered or starved during the 20th century as a
direct result of the imposition of the far left’s insane totalitarian-utopian
system, just look at today’s America: More than 3,000 innocent babies slain in
their mothers’ wombs every single day (the same number as died in the Sept. 11,
2001, terror attacks). …
The Seventh Commandment is “Thou
shalt not commit adultery.” Were this one commandment observed, the ever-metastasizing
“sexual revolution” of the 1960s, brought to us entirely by the left, would
disappear – and along with it the Pandora’s Box of tragedies and disasters
unleashed by normalizing and glorifying extramarital sex. …
The left and its political fortress,
the Democratic Party, never ceases to violate the Ninth Commandment, “Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.” Indeed, the left’s No. 1
battlefield tactic for occupying new ground is its nonstop defaming,
demonizing, suing and lying about conservatives, Christians and others who
oppose its blindly destructive advances. …
Most Americans have very little
reason to want to rig the system simply because they are happy, indeed
infinitely grateful, for it – for the traditional Judeo-Christian cultural and
moral values that have allowed Western civilization to flower; for the
brilliantly inspired Constitution of the United States with its limited,
divided government and expansive Bill of Rights; for free-market capitalism,
proven to provide the highest quality of life and health for the largest number
of people of any system in history.
And yet, the radical change agents
and revolutionaries of the left insist on trying to rig the most successful
system in human history to fail, and thus advance their collectivist,
anti-American and increasingly globalist agenda. The agenda of globalists –
brought to center stage by the presidential campaign of Donald Trump – largely
converges with that of leftist progressives since both favor open borders and
centralized power and both inherently reject a pro-American worldview.
To the extent America’s major
institutions are run by the left, they are rigged, because the left operates by
rigging and subterfuge – that is, it pretends to do one thing and to follow the
rules, while actually violating the rules at will, so as to bring about a
totally different result – a rigged result.
The
big question
For decades, the hearts and minds of
Americans have been under withering assault from the left. Our federal government
has increasingly become a malignant cancer. Our educational system is a
cesspool of secular progressive poison. Our establishment news media have
become a propaganda ministry for the secular progressive elite. And Hollywood
is dominated by enormously talented but freakishly troubled, corrupted and
confused people.
As a result of all these negative
influences and many others, millions of Americans are simply broken. As I
document in my recent book “The
Snapping of the American Mind,” a
staggering 130 million Americans are dependent on toxic substances – alcohol
and mood-altering drugs, legal and illegal – just to get through life. Tens of
millions are slaves to various addictions. Beautiful, intelligent young people
are brainwashed to believe socialism is good and capitalism is evil, that
America is a dark, predatory nation, that confused men should be allowed to use
women’s restrooms and that dozens of new genders now exist in addition to the
two (male and female) we knew about from the beginning of human history until a
few months ago.
Bottom line, millions of us –
especially younger Americans – have become somnambulistic, shallow,
self-absorbed, pleasure-seeking, ever-distracted people – blissfully ignorant
of who and what we are, of human nature and the laws of God, of how the world
works, of economic reality, of the necessity of responsibility and sacrifice,
and of the basic lessons of history. Such as these have become walking, talking
invitations to clever change agents, eager to deftly rob us of our birthright –
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. No wonder so much of our country is
being rigged under our noses.
Consider the warning of
Pennsylvania’s founder and first governor, William Penn: “If men are not
governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.” That’s what has happened to
America. But it’s not too late – especially with the surprise election of
Donald Trump as president, and what many consider to be nothing less than a
divine reprieve from having to endure the reign of a screeching, lying,
ever-deceiving Hillary Clinton.
The question now is, can we finally
awaken from the progressive trance? Can we rouse ourselves from this long and
stifling sleep and the dreamy delusions that have captured so many Americans’
minds thanks to the secular left’s pied pipers? Ultimately, the “un-rigging” of
America has to start with us.
Can we simply stop being seduced and
believing pleasant lies, and instead stand up and calmly but firmly speak the
truth, in love? Can we stop hating and blaming, and instead just reclaim our
God-given blessings as Americans, as people of God, as intact families, as
defenders of the nation we love, as people of conscience, common sense, innovation
and courage – which would finally give us a fighting chance to win back our
beloved country?
That’s the $64,000 question.
Adapted
from the November issue of Whistleblower magazine, edited monthly by David
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