After writing about it the other day, I decided to experiment by googling the names of Democrats prominent in the effort to save the country from Trump and his patron, Putin and in every case I came up with the first screens of response were full of Republican-fascist, neo-fascist sources smearing them.
It is clear that there is a coordinated effort to googlebomb Democrats in the House and Senate as well as Democratic nominees for president. I think it is obviously something that would cost a lot of money and is obviously a coordinated effort, this isn't that boob Dan Savage doing it to one guy, it's a blanket effort that has not been part of a social media campaign. I wouldn't be surprised if it were either a result of Putin or some other billionaire crime syndicate-government or domestic billionaires like the Mercers or Kochs or a combination doing it but it is clearly being done.
American democracy has clearly been made vulnerable by social media and even by the algorithms that search engines are based in being vulnerable to such manipulation. If something is not done to change that, and it will probably have to be a constant effort to keep ahead of fascist, neo-Nazi and billionaire ratfucking efforts, American democracy will be a dead artifact of the ink on paper past.
If the 18th century concept of the "free press" is not brought up to date on the basis of hard and bad experience, it will validate one of the Founder's more well known sayings, "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." Only, our legal community - at least the part of it not engaged in ratfucking our democracy - elite law scholars, their students, the "civil liberties" industry, the Supreme Court most of all have proven to be too stupid to even learn in that hardest of hard schools. Why should they? They don't have to live with the consequences. Neither do the rich members of the media or the tech billionaires, the lords of Google and Facebook.
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