1/ A decade ago, I debated tactics with a friend that worked for DC Democrats. She was a lovely person who died from Covid in 2020. Anyway, she liked to say that we needed to fight fire with water until the far right's fever broke. I fiercely retorted ... #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
2/ that's what the Weimar Republic believed until it was too late. She claimed we could fix all with GOTV success. Folks, Dems have done remarkably well at the ballot box since 2017 despite gerrymandering. Yet our democracy is still being systematically dismantled at ...
3/ every level. Saving democracy means prevailing against a kind of asymmetrical warfare that's happening all over America. Yes, we must continue to organize and turn out voters. But we also need a strategy to mobilize and promote a non-violent but ferocious movement ...
4/ to save America from facism's metastasizing menace. Provocative civil disobedience, strikes, street protests. It's OK to be scared. I'm scared, too. What if I lose my job? What if these crazy sociopaths with AR-15s shoot me while protesting? What if they kill my family? ...
5/ Abolitionists and Civil Rights activists confronted similar fears. Freedom and democracy is not cheap or easy. It requires courageous integrity.
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1/7 To paraphrase Clausewitz, GOP views politics as war by other means. Hell, they view it as an opportunity for violent oppression. We need to be on offense and whining over how money making DC Dem consultants suck at messaging ain't gonna get it done. #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
2/7 Simply put DNC's @harrisonjaime and national DC Dems like @SenSchumer are not having any epiphanies in 2022. So we're gonna have to organize and go offense for them within our own communities. From the ground up we MUST frame this as a fight between good and evil.
3/7 We represent America's decent patriotic MAJORITY that believes in freedom AND responsibility for ALL and from EVERYONE. We do NOT shoot or rape innocent children. We do NOT support child marriage that makes rape of girls permissible. We do NOT value wealth over humanity.
Fascism Inc views its Hate Industrial Complex as an indispensable asset to overcome popular will. Corupt crony capitalists payoff rabble rousers to incite violence as they pillage America's treasury and consolidate power. End result is oppression. #Fresh #ONEV1 #ResistanceUnited
Bottom line is @GregAbbott_TX
and @GovRonDeSantis are both lazy and shiftless. Neither has the backbone or work ethic to compete in the marketplace of ideas. Like most GOP politicians they're not truly entrepreneurial and don't care abt public svc. #Fresh #ONEV1 #ResistanceUnited
This November we can deliver two crippling blows to the crony capitalists of Fascism Inc. @GregAbbott_TX and @GovRonDeSantis epitomize empty suited politicians corrupt oligarchs purchase like commodities. Taking both out will have a ripple effect. #Fresh #ONEV1 #ResistanceUnited
GOP rupture reinforces revealing contrast with Dems. Corrupt oligarchs of Fascism Inc want empty suits they can control in charge. Trump loyalists are poised to erupt like Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party in '03. Dems are the real law & order party. #Fresh #ONEV1 #ResistanceUnited
Some of my fellow Jews including family and friends are in denial. Ironically, so were many German Jews in 1933. So with love I say to all, we should NOT be lulled into a false sense of security by the white face staring back at us in the mirror. #Fresh #ONEV1 #ResistanceUnited