THE NEW JIM CROW: PROJECTION, PROPAGANDA, AND ACCUSATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD

Projection is a standard propaganda technique: Accuse your opponents of misdeeds (the ones you are doing but not your opponents); accuse your opponents first to catch them off guard; and repeat your accusation in public enough times to imprint the message and give yourself political cover. It is the SOP of the GOP raised to a fine art and reiterated during every election cycle: Accuse the Democrats of voter fraud (as you fraudulently and illegally disenfranchise minority voters who are most likely to vote for Democrats).

Dick Armey is the master manipulator of projection and propaganda:



As Talking Points Memo explains:

Appearing on Fox News this afternoon, he told Neil Cavuto that Democrats vote early because there's "less ballot security," creating a "great opportunity" for fraud. He also claimed that such fraudulent early voting is "pinpointed to the major urban areas. The inner city."

Republicans and others on the right, as we've reported extensively, often make high-pitched claims of Democrat-operated voter fraud, arguing that Dems focus on minority areas. Such claims rarely bare out, but the fear of voter fraud can lead to voter suppression.

This is the same Dick Armey, the same infamous astroturfing puppet master of the Tea Party movement, who taught thugs and hooligans how to disrupt town hall meetings, intimidate citizens, and shut down public debates.  As one of those early voters, I am OFFENDED by his remark, and I want Dick Armey to feel the rage boiling inside of me in reaction to the tea party rage that he unleashed ... to abuse us.  Indeed, I feel abused and more than ready to lash out in kind.

Meanwhile, his foot soldiers commit voter fraud with impunity.  Here is what Dick Armey’s propaganda campaign has accomplished, Eyewitnesses Report Intimidation By Texas Poll Watchers:

"The two poll watchers hovered behind, and then after the poll worker left to let the woman vote, both of the poll watchers stood behind this woman the entire time while she was voting," Haver explained.

That's the type of tactics that poll watchers are accused of in Harris County, where other news reports had said poll watchers were accused of "hovering over" voters, "getting into election workers' faces" and blocking or disrupting lines of voters who were waiting to cast their ballots.

This is the SOP of the GOP: Accuse your opposition of election fraud while caging voters and using intimidation tactics to rig elections. Accuse your opposition first to cover your tracks. Repeat the message loud enough and long enough on Fox News to rile the village idiots bearing pitchforks. The time is long overdue for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ to show some spine, investigate, expose, and prosecute the low-life scum.