Thread by @Shoq

Permit me a thread here regarding my
“#PlanB.” But first, read this ⏵abc7ny.com/5458286/

The link above shows a classic form of street protest; the traffic blockade. It works, but the scale is merely useful as an awareness stunt. It has no larger tactical … 1/13

value. It’s symbolic of resistance, but not really impactful. But now scale it up to happen in 25-100 major cities at the same time, over random rotating days, often targeting major trucking routes and airport access roads (and other soft targets).

THAT will … 2/13

#DisruptAmerica. But some of it can also be at least partly disrupted by police. My #PlanB uses rotating events, and different kinds of events, to account for that. It uses these “street actions” as the visible symbols of resistance, but then adds several different … 3/13

kinds of events, much less visible and far less disruptable (if disruptable at all), that ALSO attack the profits of our 10 largest employers. Now picture both happening for weeks, as they are doing in Hong Kong.

Unless Congress passes #UrgentReforms, largely from … 4/13

reform legislation (and election protections) ALREADY on the table, already popular with the public, but cravenly blocked by Republicans for decades, the actions continue very day for weeks or months if necessary. The economic consequences would be profound and … 5/13

shareholders (and public) won’t stand for that for very long. Since they can’t stop the disruptions any other way, the reforms (all Democratically proposed and already popular) will become the populist and pragmatic way forward.

So Congress WILL pass those … 6/13

reforms. Republicans are simplistic, primitive animals. They care more about near-term power than long-term power. Resisting a tidal wave of populist expression is just not in their DNA.

This is the core logic behind my #PlanB idea which I’ve been quietly … 7/13

discussing and researching for months. It’s a strategy no one has been able to debunk yet (some very smart people have tried).

Of course, some will get hurt, as police lash out in isolated contexts, but this is inevitable in any mass mobilization. That just has to … 8/13

be accepted.

I have vetted this core logic with some inside the ACLU.. They maintain that even under existing laws, organizers of this would almost certainly be arrested the minute they could be tied to SPECIFIC actions (not the general ideas). So the hardest part … 9/13

is the secure communications between organizers (not really all that hard in this age of encryption and burner phones).That part, as well as that second class of actions, I won’t be sharing, for now.

Why do I think about this? Because unlike your faithful press, … 10/13

politicians, and Twitter punditry, I have zero faith left in our government, institutions, laws, or elections to stop this slow motion coup, whether it’s radical conservatives, Putin, or the Easter Bunny behind it. Once nations slide into autocracies (or worse). … 11/13

they almost never slide back. The people behind Trump know this, and are just fine with it. We the people had better not be.

We have a narrow window in which we can still save this democracy. If we don’t reclaim the White House AND Senate in 2020, we probably … 12/13

never will. So trying that way is #PlanA. Personally, I think that’s going to be too little, too late. But I’ll never convince others of that. But I sure as hell want a #PlanB when I no longer have to convince anyone. 13/13

It’s okay to retweet this. No one will knock on your door. I don’t think.

I just got the first threat from this. Reported. I’m sure many more are coming. But I had a very big team-win today, so bring it. You cannot bring me down (it’s only castles burning).

As I’ve been saying in #PlanB, bigness makes public corporations very brittle. If they want their markets & profits to thrive, they must help reimpose updated old rules upon a new generation of corporate overlords that see no need for rules at all.

https://twitter.com/mollycrabapple/status/1160661224666931200

Typically, I’ve had more interest from foreign nationals than from Americans. Our so-called “opposition” is just so limp, it’s infuriating. The wasted effort and emotion on utter bullshit goes on day by day, and discussion of real options is all but invisible.