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3 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Here’s the truth: decades of fretting over nonexistent voters, pandering to people who will never vote for you, and creating a platform cobbled together by overpaid pollsters and strategists with no actual skin in the game is a losing strategy.

Pick a direction. Be bold. Go.
Actually talk about how the GOP has become a dangerous authoritarian movement instead of ignoring it and ceding the discourse to them. Offer actual solutions that are easily digestible. Quit peddling transparently false American Exceptionalism. We know it’s nonsense.
What we watched last night has been playing out predictably for decades now. The Democratic Party continually recycles the same strategies and strategists and candidates and then blames the left or people of color for scaring away voters who’d never vote for them.

Change.
If the Democratic Party doesn’t offer some sweeping, ambitious agenda that actually addresses the multiple crises troubling everyone, they’ll get destroyed in 2022 and 2024. It’s that simple. Offering rebates and bureaucratic nightmare policies and means testing is surrendering.
And make the GOP’s radicalization a prominent issue. Quit reaching across the aisle for a hand holding a dagger. Talk incessantly about what this antidemocratic, authoritarian movement represents. Stop gifting them respectability and cover.

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5 Nov
When capitalism starts to buckle and the people demand dignity and equality, liberalism’s soft pressures and meritocratic promises give way to fascism, which reinforces the economy through violence and offers meaning through war.
The market disguises patriarchal, white supremacist hierarchies, blaming human suffering on forces “beyond the benefactors’ control.”

When that fiction wears thin, fascism celebrates those ideas as natural and supernatural, the bedrock of society, and protects them as sacred.
Fascism rises from the stumbling of capitalist systems, replacing the internal, quiet systems with bombastic violence and attacking reformers as traitors and conspirators until the society is brought under widespread, self-destructive control.
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4 Nov
The problem is our economy and political system was handed over to corporations and the wealthy, resulting in stagnating wages, gridlocked government by design, and now, as the system buckles, they’re using authoritarianism and conspiracy theories to maintain control.
All of these “outrages” and conspiracy theories are just a means of transferring blame for economic exploitation to vulnerable populations so that the exploitation can continue and increase. It’s the hiding of a crime, and until we start treating it as such it’ll keep working.
“CRT outrage” is about hiding actual history and taking control of culture so that it’ll become an indoctrination cycle. Deep State/QAnon nonsense is about explaining globalism and de-industrialization through supernatural means.

These are cycles we’ve seen over and over.
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3 Nov
After the loss in Virginia we have to talk about how the "CRT panic" is a fascistic, white supremacist conspiracy theory weaponized by an authoritarian movement.

The Democratic Party needs to get serious about this RIGHT NOW. There's no time to spare

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Coverage today of the VA results is a predictable fingerpointing contest, but what's getting lost is that the Democrats are losing the battle over reality and this "CRT" conspiracy theory is proving incredibly dangerous and useful.

It's time to recognize the threat.

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To be clear, the "CRT" issue isn't about Critical Race Theory. It's about ensuring that actual history and information are censored.

The GOP knows if people understand real history they can't win elections. Instead, an alternate, weaponized reality needs constructed.

3/
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30 Oct
As the Right is poised and ready for widespread violence, we have to remember the GOP and NRA have profited for decades off selling an apocalyptic fear and promising that a time will come where they’ll need to bear arms and overthrow the government.

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Simply pretending like this moment of danger and crisis just happened and that it wasn’t the result of decades and decades of fearmongering for political power and profit denies an obvious truth.

As long as the GOP, NRA, and Fox relied on fear, we were going to reach this point.
As Americans, were terrible both at context and recognizing consequences. But the GOP, NRA, and Fox, not to mention the constellation of grifters serving them, have inspired so many murders, mass shooting, assaults, and terrorist actions.

The writing has been on the wall.
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28 Oct
The GOP has primed its base to carry out widespread violence.

We need to talk about how the threat that looms over us is a weapon the wealthy and powerful use to undermine our rights and frighten us into accepting an oppressive and cruel system.

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Of course, the Right has embraced vigilante violence in the streets, making heroes of people who openly murder protesters.

This was inevitable considering the constant drumbeat of fearmongering the GOP has used to help its political fortunes.

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This has happened both through fearmongering in the media, but also in legislation passed by GOP legislatures that virtually legalizes the murder of protesters, as well as punishes lawful protesting.

It is a systematic assault on our rights and completely intentional.

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25 Oct
It’s not a coincidence that Facebook profited off radicalization and sowing violence and insurrection.

This system is tuned, specifically, to reward destructive behavior and corporations that intentionally and ruthlessly ignore human consequences.
To fully grasp what Facebook has done and why it has done it, you also have to look elsewhere, to corporations that poison customers, that destroy the environment, that lie and cover up even when they know full and well they’re wreaking unbelievable damage.

This is systemic.
Facebook and other social media poison society and radicalize their users just as other corporations relentlessly destroy the world.

It’s the very nature of the corporate system that needs addressed, its lawless and unethical, unquestionably cruel, nature that needs changed.
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