The oligarchy is targeting democracy with AI.
In the summer of 2023, at the Turning Point conference in Florida, Trump delivered one of the more strange, even bizarre, predictions from a candidate for president of the United States.
“Get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years it will be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. You’ve got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed, so it's good you’re not going to have to vote.” Trump
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu dismissed the quote as ‘classic Trumpism.’ The media moved onto the next spike of the campaign trail, and Trump went onto victory.
That victory was by an eyelash, a photo finish, but Dems folded and took a beach vacation. They left those of us who agreed with their message a Trump victory was the end of democracy feeling abandoned.
That moment with Trump in the summer wouldn’t leave my mind. Dismissing that as Trumpism seemed like a cop-out or denial. But I couldn't figure it out. It seemed nonsensical.
Another thing occurred right after Trump’s statement: a new poker in the fire: Elon Musk. What would that mean? It felt important to me then, but more of an annoyance than a game-changer. How wrong I was.
I finally put the pieces together during the recent holiday break, and suddenly, the entire Trump campaign, the confidence, the weird rallies where he stood on stage and sang Ave Maria like a drunk midtown shaman.
I’m a slow thinker. In other parts of my career, I’d been in conversations about the advent of AI, especially about using copyrighted work to train GenAI bots. But what became clear to me when I finally connected the dots was that the discussion about AI and creativity wasn’t the issue I should be concerned about.
The 2024 elections marked a pivotal moment in the intersection of artificial intelligence and democracy, bringing peril to it. From precision voter engagement to unsettling disinformation campaigns, AI’s role reshaped how campaigns operated—and how voters experienced them.
Let's cut off the BS filter. Most voters don't do deep dives. You can get their votes if you tell them something forcefully and consistently. Every master propagandist from Goebels to Trump knows the game,
The Double-Edged Sword of Artificial Intelligence in Elections
Disinformation and Deepfakes:
AI has triggered a surge of misinformation. Deepfake videos and audio clips portrayed candidates saying or doing things they never actually did, causing voters to doubt reality. AI-created news articles designed to influence particular demographics added more complexity to the quest for truth. The outcome? A notable decline in trust in traditional media and political discussions.
That wasn’t an accident; it was a strategy; undermining the truth was key to undermining our Constitution. The oligarchy needed to succeed in making the United States and the world work for them.
Micro-Targeting and Manipulation:
AI-powered unprecedented voter engagement. This is not a net positive when the engagement means consuming considerable disinformation and lies. Humans default to negativity and gossip. Murdoch knew that. National Enquirer built an empire on the principle. But AI takes this game to the next level—more than the next level, to a previously hard-to-even imagine level. And we saw it in full force in 2024.
Campaigns that used micro-targeting to analyze everything from your online shopping habits to your social media posts, delivering messages curated to your fears and bias-customized hate memes guaranteed to trigger action, precise action. It became simply a matter of telling AI what action you wanted to trigger, and the bot took care of the rest. AI chatbots answered your questions and subtly influenced your thinking while collecting more data to refine their strategies.
Election Integrity on the Line:
AI strengthened election security, but for who? AI is in the hands of twenty men, all white, all self-styled libertarians. It's like an Ayn Rand love fest, and Their agenda is not the people's agenda but the growth of their private wealth agenda. AI was targeted for voter suppression or surveillance. As the early votes arrived, the early data was analyzed at light speed. New tactics were deployed across social channels, new memes were created, and new disinformation was produced and distributed by bots. The milestones are easily achievable if your goal is a 1.5% winning margin. No landslide required,
Musk is a pioneer of the AI world. He’s ruthless, ambitious, and has an exceedingly personal agenda. Our politics is almost a video game to him. He doesn't have a stake in the game; he bought the whole game. He positions himself as a savior, but I don't buy it. He's saving what he wants and tossing the rest. His agenda feels mercurial and agitated, like a guy with a case of billion-dollar ADHD.
He wasn’t alone. Foreign actors, from Putin to the Ayatollahs, weaponized AI to sow discord, using deepfakes and disinformation to destabilize confidence in democracy itself. What chance do humble voters have against such an insidious robot technology that's capable of targeting Joe Blow of 65 Main Street, Small Town, Indiana, from Tehran on an hourly basis?
Public Reaction and Regulation:
As voters navigated this AI-fueled landscape, concerns soared. Polls showed widespread fear that AI was undermining democratic processes. Experts argued that AI didn’t fundamentally change election outcomes—it amplified existing tactics rather than introducing revolutionary ones. But 'experts' are way behind the curve in understanding AI. Most of the technology is kept secret. You have to be a member of the Bunker Boys Elitist Club to get any actual knowledge, and even that changes daily.
Legislators scrambled to catch up, with some states requiring disclosure of AI-generated content. Yet, the regulatory framework remains a patchwork, ill-equipped to address the rapid evolution of AI technologies. And relying on politicians to defend us against Silicon Valley is pointless. The smartest and the brightest do not become politicians, and any casual monitoring of congressional hearings and the technologists shows us how out of touch politicians are. AI is way above their pay grade. The elites are working to keep it that way. Their mission is to marginalize politicians and political institutions to give them a free hand in reshaping our world to their purpose. The 2024 election was their first outright assault. It gets worse from here,
What Does It All Mean?
The real story isn’t whether AI determined the outcome of the 2024 elections—it’s how it forever altered the relationship between voters and the political process. With personalized messages and hyper-targeted appeals, campaigns didn’t just seek your vote; they sought to mold your beliefs. And they were wildly successful. The most outlandish lies were routinely promoted and saturated the voters’ consciousness. Facts didn’t stand a chance.
So, will we ever trust what we see and hear again? If it comes from the digital plantation, I wouldn't. AI will quickly evolve to the point where it decides for us based on patterns, preferences, and predictions. However, that's online. If we pull the plug, AI dies fast. And new decentralized social platforms like Bluesky make it difficult to meme the world to get a predictable result. The future must be decentralized, preferably before 2028.
2024 was a stolen election, and AI was the thief. We need to get that straight in our heads. It's a nightmare epiphany, but it shouldn't paralyze us; rather, it calls us to action—smart, fast action.
The question isn’t whether AI will shape our elections—it’s how far will we let it go? I'm no Luddite. AI is the best writing assistant I've ever had, but it's like a pit bull. It needs a strong leash and a wary eye. Until we feel confident it's under control, we need restrictive regulation and solid walls, and we need to bring bad billionaire dogs to heel. Marching across the world using AI to attack legitimately elected governments that piss you off is going to get a lot of people killed. The toddlers need more nap time, and the knife drawer needs a lock.
Will AI empower voters with better information, or will it erode the very fabric of democracy?
One thing is clear: the way we engage with democracy has changed. The challenge is ensuring that this brave new world doesn’t make us passive participants in our governance. If we don’t act to regulate and educate, we may find ourselves in a future where we never have to vote again—because the machines will have already done it for us. 'You won't have to vote anymore' is a statement of fact if we let it.
What do we need?
We must overturn the Citizens United ruling.
This decision undermined our constitutional republic and was a globally significant event. We stand no chance if the U.S. Supreme Court serves the oligarchy's interests. If you believe otherwise, you're ignoring the reality.
We need to find a way to regenerate the Fairness Doctrine.
Equal time for voter voices is essential when one side controls a massive AI propaganda tool. Otherwise, there's simply no way to win the game.
We need to limit the wealth of billionaires.
How concerning is it to have someone who could settle the entire debt of the United States with a single check telling us we need to cut benefits for the poor? Some of these individuals have become like Super Scrooge.
These are windmill-tilting demands, but without regulation and control of elections back in the hands of the people, we might as well head to the fields and work at satisfying the master's will—that's how serious this has become.
The combination of billionaires in our elections, the powerful weapon of AI-targeted disinformation, and a world addicted to online communication makes this an insanely tricky fight for our liberty and freedom.
Victory must be physical.
I'm saying that communication and engaging with voters can't happen in the digital realm. We're at war with a global digital entity governed by ten individuals. They can use AI to target and attack anyone, manipulate conversations, and censor freely. And this is merely the start.
We’ve had a revolution led by oligarchs, and they’re not done. Elon Musk is targeting the UK, Germany, France, and Brazil. His AI Grok tool is powerful and still developing at light speed.
By 2028, the AI Entity will be omnipresent.
Musk acts like the cat who ate the canary.
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