by Brian Parsons, American Thinker:
In politics, the term Astroturf refers to a contrived grassroots movement. Astroturfing is when the establishment or similar interests back a candidate or cause but deceptively hide where the support originates so that it appears as if the support is organic and composed of ordinary people. Because politicians must appeal to the sensibilities of the commoners for their votes, who better to influence them than their peers?
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
You may have noticed a similar strategy with hiring dozens of conservative influencers by the campaign apparatus of Florida governor Ron DeSantis. The Everyman shtick is the script, but one cannot debate that most funding and press come from establishment sources such as corporate billionaires and media moguls like Rupert Murdoch.
Last year I wrote about the penchant of the American Left to promote sacred-cow minority blocs like puppets on a string, such as ethnic, gender, or age groups. The objective is to promote causes while deflecting duly earned criticism as a character flaw of the accuser. The examples then included famed climate activist Greta Thunberg and gun-control activist David Hogg. The latest example is the Biden White House’s campaign to hire an army of social-media influencers and target their operation toward Generation Z to bolster his 2024 re-election bid. Biden previously employed this strategy by hiring an army of TikTok influencers to push COVID vaccination and saw a measure of success.
This campaign to recruit Gen Z influencers is already being realized on Twitter with a very canned message by DNC influencers Harry Sisson and Chris Mowrey. If you’ve noticed one of these two young men on TikTok or Twitter promoting the homologous voting bloc of Gen Z, it’s not by accident. From the top to the bottom of the leftist press, we’re being told how Gen Z thinks and how Gen Z votes.
In discussions of Gen Z, the idiom that the Right is having babies, but the Left is raising them comes to mind. We are presented with a defiant posture by a voting bloc that feigns repression while not even being on the radar of your average American. I’m mostly sure the Baby Boomer class is still stuck on Millennials.
During the most recent Idaho legislative session, the legislature made several electoral reforms, such as banning ranked-choice voting and student identification in Idaho elections. As a response, several national left-wing activist organizations, such as the gun control lobby March For Our Lives and electoral activists Babe Vote, have launched lawsuits against the state, citing voter suppression. In promoting these suits, they have produced a video of students as young as fourteen feigning outrage over their inability to vote using their student ID. In this video, activists tout these electoral reforms as a direct attack on Gen Z. They don’t explain precisely how requiring state-issued and standardized identification represses young voters, but know that you should be outraged.
Suppose member states of a union have no legal standing to challenge the election irregularities of their peer states. How do non-voters have legal standing to challenge voter identification requirements? They don’t. An Astroturf campaign is on display to use sacred cows to promote well-funded leftist campaigns.
Read More @ AmericanThinker.com
