Thread by @_Ungagged

Alba members are complaining that some in the independence movement are gloating, because of their failure to win seats in the Scottish Parliament. In saying what I am saying, I am not gloating. To see this failure, and to see a few thousand activists who could be positively

active exploited in the way they have been, is actually gutting. Activism, protest, amplified voices CAN be used to bring about positive change. But we've all witnessed in the USA how radicalising prejudice misdirected anger is really dangerous... And ultimately impotent

except for those at the top of the tree. Salmond and others are exploiting and misdirecting people in a way that would make Steve Bannon and others like those who ran Cambridge Analytica, proud.

Personally, i felt it really was good to see yesterday's man, Salmond (and

others in his team) who exploited vituperative cracks, much in the way Steve Bannon teaches his political audience to do, fail. Bannon etc have at the moment, no place in a politically reasonably educated Scottish populace. His kind of politics really works amongst people

who don't truly understand complex systems, and therefore can be exploited in social media bubbles and directed to act outwith their actual interests (eg support a doctrine in the USA that keeps the poor, poor, ensures people die needlessly because of lack of medical cover,

etc). Those who use fissures in Scotland to self promote (Sheridan, Galloway, the rancid indy bloggers, etc) fail to raise a posse beyond a few angry thousand in Scotland - at present. There are fissures there to exploit, and we will see aspects of unionism do that, but other

wedges based on prejudice will create issues that right wing loyalism can unite with transphobic, homophobic, sexist voices that have been amplified by people who seek to gain notoriety and profit from the exploitation of thise who are finding progress difficult. How dreadful

that for many of these people, their first immersion in politics is in this almost cult like organisation of online blocklists, bubbles and political gurus.

Are Alba a threat to progress? Yes. Because Salmond and others really only have the wedge issues in our politics to

exploit. We saw the danger of this through the unwillingness of the higher echelons of the party to criticise/ take action against awful statements re the GRA and, LGBTIQ organisations issued by some activists and bloggers, and Salmond's seeming admiration of Trump as a

disruptor. To "disrupt" with only wedge political groups that are based on the misunderstandings and prejudices of their activists and followers to fall back on, a mini QAnon/Trumpist GOP is what is produced. A party that will put prejudices and misunderstandings first, rather

than "pulling the SNP to the left ," or being a positive voice for independence.

There is nothing to show that Salmond is only interested in progress. His behaviour over the past few years shows a bitter man who is prepared to do what Sheridan did to the SSP, writ large,

but he is in a, position to do even more harm now he admits his admiration of Trump's methodology.

Are Ungagged going to continue to hold a mirror up to those who are creating bubbles of Prejudice for Indy? Well, it was never our original raison d'etre. Our want is to encourage

positive change. At present, in a world mired in Bannonism, Putinism, Bolsonaro, Modi, Assad, Xi... The SNP, Jacinta Aherne, and others while not representing a revolution, represent progress and although our want is for more democracy, more redistribution of wealth,

no poverty, no exploitation, no hunger etc, out and out attacks on those who are very much a bulwark to extreme reactionaries and conspiracy theorists and exploiters really arent our thing. We really will tackle these wedge groupings, conspiracy theorists and egos, and offer

support to progressive forces.

Alba, regardless of a veneer of leftism, is a regressive, reactionary grouping created by a weak narcissist and other self promoters coattailing him. We will continue to call these people out.

Apols for mistakes 👆🏾