Thread by @chernayakoshka

a good opportunity to point out the various problems inherent with right wing organizations, how federal agencies operate in regards to these groups, and what it means for you:

https://twitter.com/scottmgreer/status/1535837010153332736

“in real life” right wing organizations are functional nonstarters. the problems exist at an essential level; who, how, and why these groups are organized just compounds the issues, but the flaws are inherent to the idea itself.

any right wing group that identifies itself as separate from the republican party automatically isolates it from (what little) protection party association offers. tactics used to suppress dissidence amplify the further away a group identifies itself from the mainstream.

these tactics are soft suppression (doxing, employment imperilment, leftist harassment) or hard oppression (criminal charges, imprisonment, assassination). the legal system is stacked against regular citizens exercising their rights, see rittenhouse. radicals are even worse off.

so far, every right wing group’s political tactics have boiled down to the same thing: go somewhere and protest. the only difference has been color schemes and chosen chants. this tactic has done nothing to move national politics more rightward, and in several cases only hurt it.

the political situation is not great, and there are critical issues that face the right on an existential level. the direness of this situation necessitates intelligence, pragmatism, and a willingness to learn from past mistakes. qualities that are absent in “the movement.”

enter the federal agencies: the feds’ literal job is to disrupt groups opposed to or in competition with the state and the current regime, and they have been at it for over a century. they are especially adept at targeting organized groups.

this is done primarily through informants, either actual undercover agents who instigate actions that enable the use of hard oppression (see whitmer plot) or through “turned” individuals within organizations that are coerced into providing information for use in soft suppression.

there is no solution to either case. no amount of screening, vetting, or personal trust can safeguard against this. sooner or later, the group will be compromised and its honest members will become yet more victims of modern american tyranny.

is patriot front a federal operation? it’s probably mostly organic i.e. filled with real people with genuine beliefs that aren’t too different from most here, but heavily infiltrated by the feds, agents and turncoats. it’s irrelevant either way. their strategy is a dead end.

so what can be done?

first, accept that the tactics have to evolve past charlottesville. it doesn’t work, it will never work, and you only endanger yourself and the right as a whole by trying to make it work. there are other options, attempting what has already failed isn’t one.

second, be suspicious of any individual or group that wants your information, that wants you to engage in the above mentioned tactics, and presents themselves as the only salvation for the right, whatever niche ideology they trademark themselves. even if they genuine believe it.

third, stop being publicists for those too stupid or ill-intentioned who keep pursuing this strategy. the whole point of these public displays is to gain notoriety, which they want to leverage into gaining more members. deny this to them. even mockery is too much attention.

there is a path to victory. there is a strategy to gaining power. trying the same thing over again is not that strategy. repeating the same mistakes is a path to gaining nothing. if we’re going to win this thing, we have to be a lot smarter than this.