For years, audiences have asked me “but WHO is THEY???”. So I decided to give them a picture to help them understand — the sinister figure — cold, calculating, holding the entire world in his hands while peering at it through an eyepiece. That image represents what I call the “evil genius.”
An evil genius is not a crazy person or a low-level criminal. He is someone who possesses two dangerous traits at the same time: exceptional intelligence and complete absence of morality.
There is more than one, yes. These people understand the critical importance of something most Americans have sadly, now forgotten: Our country was deliberately designed as a decentralized republic. Power was meant to stay in the hands of the people, not the government. That’s why our election system was also built to be decentralized. From the beginning, it was never government officials or private companies who counted the votes — it was the citizens themselves, counting their ballots in public at the local precinct level.
This was not an accident. A decentralized government requires a decentralized election system to survive. If you centralize components of the elections, you will eventually centralize the government itself.
The evil geniuses understood this perfectly. They knew that controlling a few centralized points was far easier than trying to control thousands of independent precincts. So over decades, they slowly centralized our elections under the cover of “progress,” “efficiency,” and “modernization.”
They didn’t do this work themselves. They used millions of good but ignorant people — including election officials — to help them. Officials were told that voting machines and centralized counting would make their jobs easier and reduce fraud. Instead, we traded a simple, transparent, decentralized system where fraud was visible for a complex, centralized system where fraud could be hidden at massive scale.
This was their true genius: They didn’t need to commit obvious crimes. They simply changed the structure of the system so the truth became nearly impossible to see — while keeping the outward appearance of democracy intact.
Most Americans still believe they are voting in real elections. That illusion is the most brilliant part of the strategy.
The good news is this does not have to continue.
The solution is not complicated. We must return to the fundamentals our Founders understood: hand-marked paper ballots, counted openly by citizens at the precinct level on election night, with the entire process recorded. Modern technology now makes this easier and more transparent than ever before.
In fact, the Progressive Election Platform lays out specifically all that is needed to instantly restore our Republic:
We do not need to ask permission. The people who currently run the system work for us, not the other way around. When enough Americans decide they will once again count their own votes, the evil geniuses will lose their power — and the republic can be restored.
Like some others have done, I encourage you to print out the following Declaration, and kindly hand-deliver a copy of it to every public official you know.
