Let's put it simply.

The people who ruined this country, who grew inequality, who destroyed government as a public good, who made our lives miserable, all for profit, hid their guilt by whipping up a fascist movement with weaponized, white supremacist conspiracy theories.
The wealthy and powerful plunder a country for everything it's worth, damn the people to lesser lives, and when it all starts to come apart, they rely on fascists to reinforce their will and attack reform movements.

We've seen it before. Here and abroad.
We can't keep pretending like this isn't what happened, that the wealthy and powerful aren't using fascists radicalized by their own weaponized misinformation, and that it just...appeared.

This is why we're here. This is what's happening. Address this.
If you want a primer on this, if you want to turn someone onto what's actually happening, how we've reached this point of crisis and how it's the result of decades of intentional, malevolent manipulation, here's a video.

Tell people what's going on.

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14 Jan
The capital of the United States of America has been turned into a military zone and there’s a massive fascist movement threatening shared society because the wealthy and powerful created an alternate reality where they could maintain power and direct anger away from themselves.
Really let that sink in, because that’s the truth.

Trump, the Right, their poisonous media ecosystem, these grifters and bad faith politicians.

All of it part of a toxic stew of designed, tested, and weaponized conspiracy theories to hide boundless greed and inhuman cruelty.
We have to hold Trump accountable and change material conditions in this country, but nothing will change if we don’t investigate white supremacy, the paranoia that accompanies it, and that wealthy and powerful people have constructed an alternate reality to keep a grip on power.
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13 Jan
People are going to try their damnedest to tell a story that Trump was the cause of this crisis and a total aberration.

The truth is that America’s history is lousy with fascism, that the Right and the wealthy created an environment of fascistic lies to expedite profit and power
This symbolic outrage from a party who has gleefully used Trump to dismantle government, fundraise, and stock the courts right up until the last week of his term will help build that narrative.

This lie will only grow the very real danger we’re in.
We’re facing fascism because of our weaponized mythologies of American exceptionalism that spurred on oppressive empire and hid white supremacy, we’re here because of planned economic inequality and because fascism is a means of suppression of reform.
Read 5 tweets
12 Jan
The Right has no principles beyond pursuit of power and wealth.

They’re not pro-life, they’re not for free markets, they’re not fiscally or socially conservative, they’re not pro-troops, and after their people murdered cops we know they’re not actually pro-law enforcement.
We have passed the point where Republicans can engage in good faith, cooperative government. It’s a fascistic, anti-democratic movement that exists to protect white supremacy and the power of wealthy men and corporations by weaponizing poisonous conspiracy theories.
There is no uniting. There’s no reaching across the aisle. THERE IS NO AISLE. Those of us in the building are watching the Right break down the doors and burn the house down.

It’s not a political party. It’s an existential threat.
Read 7 tweets
12 Jan
It’s not just whether there will be violence or another attempted coup over the next nine days. It’s the absolute certainty there’ll be more violence and more intentional undermining of government and shared society if this existential crisis isn’t addressed.
We’re watching a fascistic movement. It’s not just a moment of violence or a brief window. It’s a sustained, coordinated, coalescing movement that’s feeding off weaponized conspiracy theories and societal alienation and anger. It’s not just going away.
We have to be ready for more violence and more coup attempts in the very near future, but if they’re avoided, if they don’t happen, we can’t just believe we’re out of the deep, deep water, because this has been building for years and it’s only getting worse.
Read 5 tweets
10 Jan
We're facing a fascistic movement that's backed by the wealthy and powerful who want to dismantle government, an administration and party desperate to cling to power, a racist evangelical base, and a mob lost in weaponized conspiracy theories.

This video is a primer and explainer of the complicated and frightening moment we find ourselves in, a crisis that is a long, long time coming and that won't simply stop unless we address it and the underlying factors.

Have the hard conversations about this. Reject this.
Talk to the people around you about what this coup attempt was, the fascist movement growing in this country, and the very real history the wealthy and powerful don't want you to know.

The only we way we're going to escape this is to expose what it is and fight against it.
Read 9 tweets
10 Jan
There's a fascist movement in this country that attempted a coup this week.

THE CAPITOL COUP OF 2021 is a video that explains how this happened and details the very real threat we're still facing.

Let people know about this.

The truth is that this moment of crisis resembles past crises in history where fascists overthrew societies. If we’re going to make it out of this moment with anything resembling democracy, we need to understand it, reject it, and get organized against it.
I made this video as an explainer and an introduction to a lot of the research I’ve been doing on our gathering fascist threat. We’re at a moment where a lot of people are starting to understand things aren’t okay. Have conversations with them, get the word out.
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