It’s important to understand the extent to which our government’s failures are a deliberate strategy.
If you are hostile to the notion of a representational democratic government that exists of, for, and by the people, and you want to replace it with something else, it's in your interest to make sure such a government fails.
Trump is a stimulus/response guy but he instinctively knows he prefers corporate authoritarianism to representational democracy and so he instinctively moves to harm it every chance he gets.
This isn't a complex strategy. It's a vandalism strategy.
This isn't a complex strategy. It's a vandalism strategy.
And in this strategy Trump is a mainstream Republican.
He's nothing new. He chose the party because they are what he is. They summoned him by being what they are.
He's their perfect leader. A brutal vandal of a government of, by, and for the people.
He's nothing new. He chose the party because they are what he is. They summoned him by being what they are.
He's their perfect leader. A brutal vandal of a government of, by, and for the people.
If you wanted to employ a strategy of deliberate governmental failure, you'd introduce the idea that any action taken by such a government was intrinsically bad and scary.
You'd want to get a charming affable type to say it.
You'd want to get a charming affable type to say it.
Once you've got that set, you can go to work making failure.
How? Corruption. Deregulation. Negation. Distortion. Defunding.
If your opponents don't engage in the same, you wait for them to start cleaning your mess and blame them for the mess.
If they do, it only helps.
How? Corruption. Deregulation. Negation. Distortion. Defunding.
If your opponents don't engage in the same, you wait for them to start cleaning your mess and blame them for the mess.
If they do, it only helps.
If your opponents won't compromise to help you bring failure, you paint them as divisive.
If they compromise, vandalize the compromise. Snatch what you can & don't hold up your end.
Use the failure to prove that government can't ever compromise.
And THEN paint them as divisive
If they compromise, vandalize the compromise. Snatch what you can & don't hold up your end.
Use the failure to prove that government can't ever compromise.
And THEN paint them as divisive
It's why representational democracy is so fragile.
To engage in such a government means to believe that a representational government can create solutions.
To destroy it you just have to break shit.
To engage in such a government means to believe that a representational government can create solutions.
To destroy it you just have to break shit.
Trump is exactly where Republicans have been steering my whole life.
Don't forget it.
Don't forget it.
If our government met the challenges of climate change, they might succeed. And yes, that would mean that profits in certain parts of the energy sector would suffer. But, obviously, other parts would benefit.
But if the government FAILS, it's a HUGE failure.
Which is desired.
But if the government FAILS, it's a HUGE failure.
Which is desired.
Imagine how hard it will be to create an authoritarian corporatist response to climate disaster if the government meets that challenge.
And how easy it will be, if you can point to the fact that government failed. "There it goes again," you can say with a Reagan-esque chuckle.
And how easy it will be, if you can point to the fact that government failed. "There it goes again," you can say with a Reagan-esque chuckle.
A fine example. If you make public schools fail, then you can make the case that public schools fail intrinsically
Soon public schools will equal failure
Allowing the creation of alternatives that must be afforded, and make someone wealthy more wealthy
Soon public schools will equal failure
Allowing the creation of alternatives that must be afforded, and make someone wealthy more wealthy
And the solution to elections is to vandalize the election.
If you're not caught, you vandalized the election.
If you ARE caught, it will feed the narrative you've built that elections are not to be trusted. washingtonpost.com/politics/north…
If you're not caught, you vandalized the election.
If you ARE caught, it will feed the narrative you've built that elections are not to be trusted. washingtonpost.com/politics/north…
And if you win the election, claim a mandate even though you got fewer votes.
If you lose, vandalize the levers of government on your way out. This untrustworthy act will feed the narrative you've built that our government is not to be trusted. apnews.com/27a08a42972b48…
If you lose, vandalize the levers of government on your way out. This untrustworthy act will feed the narrative you've built that our government is not to be trusted. apnews.com/27a08a42972b48…
And of course it's easy enough to make your authoritarian corporatocracy a theocracy, when the theocrats involved have decided that planetary apocalypse is a desirable end, and that wealth equals virtue.
Everybody wants the same thing: planned failure.
Everybody wants the same thing: planned failure.
We're going to have to fight back.
By expecting success that succeeds for all, not some.
And demanding it.
And rejecting the vandals entirely.
By expecting success that succeeds for all, not some.
And demanding it.
And rejecting the vandals entirely.
Demand public solutions of your leaders, solutions that abandon nobody
Demand no compromise with political vandals, none, none
Demand that profit is not our goal
Demand leaders who will not take corporate money
If they do, call them and insist that they stop
Demand no compromise with political vandals, none, none
Demand that profit is not our goal
Demand leaders who will not take corporate money
If they do, call them and insist that they stop
Good morning, by the way. How are you?
Being asked for solutions. Demanding a better story is the solution; that, and telling a better story.
Our elected officials aren't afraid of us. They should be.
Our fellow citizens aren't ashamed to tell a story in which only a few have earned life. They should be.
Our elected officials aren't afraid of us. They should be.
Our fellow citizens aren't ashamed to tell a story in which only a few have earned life. They should be.
Tell a better story, in which every human being is a unique and irreplaceable work of art carrying intrinsic and unsurpassable worth.
And profitability doesn't even come into that formula.
And profitability doesn't even come into that formula.
And scare the hell out of your Democrats.
They take corporate money and compromise with vandals because they think it's in their interest to do so. And it has been. Teach them rules to a new and better game.
I recommend we call in waves.
They take corporate money and compromise with vandals because they think it's in their interest to do so. And it has been. Teach them rules to a new and better game.
I recommend we call in waves.
If your Democrats won't respond, work to replace them.
And never in your life vote for a Republican, any Republican, ever again.
And never in your life vote for a Republican, any Republican, ever again.
Reminder: it’s important to understand the extent to which our government’s failures are part of a deliberate ongoing long-term political strategy.
Republicans are political arsonists.
Republicans are political arsonists.
