The right wing imagined this,wrote it down,built power over decades&is implementing an incredibly unpopular&destructive agenda.Every time somebody from center to left tells me what’s not possible it shocks me.Look around. Political imaginaries+ daring+ resources makes the world.For worse or better. - ThreadSky

devawo.bsky.social • 77 days ago

The right wing imagined this,wrote it down,built power over decades&is implementing an incredibly unpopular&destructive agenda.Every time somebody from center to left tells me what’s not possible it shocks me.Look around. Political imaginaries+ daring+ resources makes the world.For worse or better.

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damnnothere.bsky.social•76 days ago

destruction is the easiest plan to implement, though

marxismnojutsu.bsky.social•76 days ago

I'm with you. It's the resources that are the stumbling block.

lainey-james.bsky.social•76 days ago

I feel that in a very real sense, it's not an issue of money. Dem politicians "we need more money." No, you need to grow a spine. Be assertive, be loud, be seen, and be a disruption! I love hope, I believe in hope, but hope isn't winnable action.

solidarity5ever.bsky.social•76 days ago

And these ghouls weren't brilliant. Their ideas are dumb. They just noticed some glaring weaknesses in the system. I really think that most liberals are just afraid of change. That's not uncommon in the human mind, but change is coming no matter what, so we have to be brave.

quothe1.bsky.social•76 days ago

Absolutely. They're worried that change means other people might have more than they do instead of considering how much more everyone could have.

They worried about that for so long that fascists rebranded as the party of (evil) progress.

Dems have fucked us just as badly as the GOP.

solidarity5ever.bsky.social•76 days ago

To be fair humans tend to be afraid of change just generally, and that's because change can be risky. I don't think all liberals are afraid of losing privilege, but the mainstream of the Democratic party absolutely are.

mambosauce.bsky.social•77 days ago

Politics, just like economics, is ultimately just about faith and belief. The idea of a limit of possibilities in either is laughable. We're swimming in psychic nonsense.

lildonnyb.bsky.social•76 days ago

Well. If you believe climate change is real and will be catastrophic harming billions of people if nothing is done to radically change how we do things quickly I don’t see how a 5 decade project of power building is gonna help save humanity.

tullyundead.bsky.social•76 days ago

Gee, if only the American government and supposed liberal party hasn't spent those same decades crushing every single organization that could have countered this right wing takeover

iawoodchuck.bsky.social•76 days ago

Lewis Powell Memo? John Birch Society? Koch's?

devawo.bsky.social•77 days ago

Why would we give up the better by refusing to imagine it?

detroitstorm.bsky.social•76 days ago

a silver lining to this is what we are witnessing now: They didn't think there would be pushback. These rich chucklefucks have never had someone stand up and say no to them their entire lives so the concept is foreign. That means we have the element of surprise and we can't let them do this again.

poppybear75.bsky.social•77 days ago

Most people are incapable of thinking beyond a very simplistic world view, the greater the complexity the greater their insignificance becomes, that in turn shatters the illusions of controlling personal destiny, simply put, it's short sighted mental self preservation.

nichrome77.bsky.social•75 days ago

Amen, Sister! Let’s imagine a better world, kick fascist ass, and make it happen.

fraughtrobin.bsky.social•76 days ago

it began in the 70's with the Powell Memorandum with Powell as the Chief Justice under Nixon. Therein he encouraged businesses to fight back HARD, BBB and the Business Round Table were major proponents. It'd be nice if we had a team of highly paid lawyers at our disposal, underwritten by tax cuts.

mpulskamp.bsky.social•76 days ago

And then Gingrich’s Contract on America. Where they started all those little steps, doublespeak, reframing, putting people in small places who would support their moves as “common sense.”
P2025 isn’t new.

fraughtrobin.bsky.social•76 days ago

You're in my thoughtstream.
Gingrich SNEERING the word "liberal", me screaming at the screen wondering why the Dems didn't roll up their sleeves and duke it out with him, LITERALLY if necessary.
The Dems always play the "high-minded" card, as if the populace "gets it".

fraughtrobin.bsky.social•76 days ago

Taking the high road got us nothing, just as it appears Schumer will.
"IF" this election was legitimate, and we may never know, because the Harris campaign played their part and "went along"; they have nothing to lose.
S M H

brokenwindvane.bsky.social•76 days ago

All our movies and culture tell us that those who do the planning are always the bad guys. While it was the Dems who fully internalized this Cold War culture, Reps decided to create new arguments and popularize them with repetition, and it worked. Turns out that Cold War propaganda wasn’t permanent.

brokenwindvane.bsky.social•76 days ago

Turns out that “the end of history” wasn’t. Turns out that possessing some sort of alternative vision for the future and planning for it wouldn’t always be considered a political third rail. The Cold War made it “cool” to reject the notion of planning and Dems have been too insecure to reclaim cool.

bartfree.bsky.social•76 days ago

Anything is possible with money.

devawo.bsky.social•76 days ago

Money + imagination + organizing for decision making power. $$ alone doesn’t do it. Didn’t in the right wing’s case & never has.

ellocust.bsky.social•76 days ago

The people telling you another world isn’t possible are either being paid or so broken down that they have internalized the logic of the oppressors on their own.

billthecentrist.bsky.social•76 days ago

Counterpoint: what if we do nothing? Isn't it just as good?

lilith-roa.bsky.social•76 days ago

The Dems helped them along the way, they didn't do it on their own.

George Carlin warned you all back in 2005 that the politicians have been bought up by the 1%, the real owners.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KLODGhEyLvk&pp=ygUcYW1lcmljYW4gZHJlYW0gZ2VvcmdlIGNhcmxpbg%3D%3D

Dems have never done anything to stop it, just helped it along

joeahargrave.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yes. Thank you. You get it. Following. Only people who understand this, right here, are prepared to lead the anti-fascist resistance.

jtehmom.bsky.social•77 days ago

https://youtu.be/HRAfLJiH0qA?si=EGyp3oc8vi3dnnrI

lavenderplague.bsky.social•76 days ago

there was also an event 5 years ago that broke our brains we haven’t acknowledged

kolinzkay.bsky.social•77 days ago

Obscenely wealthy rich white men paid for all of this to happen. Without finance from these evil men the Right Wing would still be saving up to turn their mother's root cellar into their day trading/Nazi fetish site HQ.

devawo.bsky.social•77 days ago

Resources are included on the list. But organizing across civil society institutions,especially churches, played a huge role.Left(ish) has let most of its civil society institutions crumble,preferring to work through the state which it assumed would remain rule bound.Or building small isolated orgs.

jjmaher.bsky.social•76 days ago

Yes

waynepatriot.bsky.social•76 days ago

While the GOP were down at Mar-A-Cesspool, planning Felon47's return, they were planning, preparing, talking about Project 2025 before it was even written down. They knew what they wanted to do. They had it prepared. They somehow knew they would win. Reich media, reich podcasts and fascists did it.

mceuen.bsky.social•77 days ago

I agree currently reading this book with two other profs

devawo.bsky.social•77 days ago

I’ve assigned this in my Politics of Futurity class and we are reading next week!

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