Information warfare is being waged upon us by enemies of democracy both foreign and domestic. [View all]

[ArtTownsend]

They will use everything against us in this election.

They’ll sow division and discord. They’ll make personal attacks and tell lies and half-truths. They’ll make things up. Make us more suspicious and frustrated and angry and upset and paranoid. They’ll even make us feel like we’re losing touch with reality.

They’ll promote controversial candidates who don’t have a chance at winning, knowing full that we’ll react. The creation and exaggeration of internal conflict and mutual distrust is precisely the point. The petty back-and-forth over third-party candidates, who to vote for or not voting at all - anything to turn our diversity of backgrounds (in every sense), experiences, thought, and worldview as voters of the Democratic Party, that makes us who we are, that rightly celebrated diversity that represents this country’s people - they’ll take that precious diversity, and weaponize it against us.

And make no mistake: whomever wins the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 will face the full force of this effort, and it will be directed at us (Democrats) as much as anyone. Think of the issues and policies that are most important to you. Think of what makes you really angry or upset. I guarantee you that the foreign and domestic enemies of democracy have already learned how to weaponize it against you.

Instead of “out of many, we are one” it will be “out of many, there is no ‘we”.” That’s always been the goal - the ongoing project of dividing this country (and others) against each other for the political and personal benefit of a transnational crime syndicate. That division isn’t targeted at just white against persons of color, Republicans against Democrats, etc. No, the REAL focus for these vultures and has criminals is dividing progressives and liberals, leftists and left of center people, against one another, most especially within Democratic politics.


We must be more vigilant than ever - all of us!