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For me, the alternative is to answer the question, "when better than anything else isn't good enough, what then?"
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It is heartening to see that at least one of the tactics I've suggested seems to have taken hold. Nice to think I had some small part in helping that to happen, but not likely.
Still thinking out-of-the-box tactical.
www.poems4change.org/public/lets-get-tactical.html
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our idealism about democracy needs revision. It should be clear that the fundamental flaw in the concept of democracy, despite all its other imperfections, is that democracy cannot protect itself against democracy. The alternative is not some species of autocracy. Something yet to be discovered.
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I'm afraid their rigging is now being done to predict outcomes 4 years in advance, or how to not have elections at all. I think we'd better think beyond the normal-times playbook on politics and elections. We don't live in that reality any more.
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Good to think, perhaps, but not necessarily good to eat. It's a prevalent mythology- the good prevail in the end; the "arc of history bends...", blah, blah, blah. If all it was used for was a morale booster, that would be fine. We use it to devise tactics and determine outcomes. That's dangerous.
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If its about the 'Just Say No!' and 'Get to a Free-state' campaigns, I see how a first reaction might be "What about us men?" Indeed, men and women will suffer this tactic, alike. But It's the only thing I can think of, and its all in the hands of women to do. Men can support them, but that's all.
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?? Did you mean this for someone else? I haven't the foggiest what you are talking about? Or what it has to do with what I posted.
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I'm sorry to say that is not at all what I've suggested. Educative to some, perhaps, but mostly speaking to the choir. What I suggest is actually hosting Town Halls for red voters, going and listening to them, answering their questions, honestly. Not giving them a Dem's vision. Much more effective.
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Much obliged. Not many visit my work. Much appreciate your visit.
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If you're asking who should host Town Halls for Republicans, to hear their grievances and answer questions Republicans are refusing to, I think every Congressperson should go to any red districts near them, all across the country. We should host them everywhere. Let them know we will listen.
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This broadside is kind of obsolete - poems/stories/art will still be taken and received, but people should simply go to this group and join it,
www.facebook.com/groups/pad.a...
they can post their voices to the Dark Ages there.
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I think you got my point. Thank you.
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You might like this. We couldn't get it printed or distributed in Ukraine, but it's our small 'We Will Not Be Silent' effort done a few weeks after the invasion,
www.poems4change.org/ukraine/ukraine.pdf
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'The Card-Shark & the Statesman', an appraisal.
www.poems4change.org/dark-ages/great-television.pdf
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Sorry, we just handed over unlimited power to a Mad King. Those projects will need to be postponed for a little while. A thousand years or so. That's the typical length of a Dark Ages.
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Funny they don't say, when measles is spreading in their states or natural disasters wipe them out, "It's god(s) punishment."
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The game was always there, right in front of us. We've ignored the warnings for 150 years. Now, it's too little, too late, as usual. The Dark Ages have arrived.
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Sorry, your apology is not accepted. The free world will leave you to your own self-inflicted misery. No trade, no travel, no communications at all. You've infected enough of the world already.
on apologies: 'The Card-Shark & the Statesman', www.poems4change.org/dark-ages/great-television.pdf
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try this,
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www.poems4change.org/dark-ages/great-television.pdf
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'The Card-Shark & the Statesman', my appraisal,
www.poems4change.org/dark-ages/great-television.pdf
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yes, and Fox keeps blah, blah, on Biden and the election, because there is nothing else they can remotely talk about that isn't shit, and all their viewers know it is. Look at their Town Halls, that's just the tip of learning you've been conned.
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If someone/group would organize/implement this, we might also substantially stop buying MAGA/Trump-supporting products and services,
'SWIPE OUT MAGA' -- www.poems4change.org/essays/csrc.pdf
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A Mad King with unlimited power doesn't worry much about what Congress or the courts do. They are just smokescreens for legitimacy that he can ignore and sweep away whenever he wants. We're very mislead if that's the scoreboard we pay attention to.
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But this tactic goes unnoticed by the DNC. They're not very good a putting away the 'normal times' playbook. Always, too little, too late.
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Need is a full 'Shadow Government' made up of past and present leaders who can provide a running picture of what's happening and news - a shadow 'POTUS', CONGRESS & SCOTUS. At the top of @timothysnyder.bsky.social's list, but I don't see him or anyone else lifting a finger to make is so.
or this,
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Sadly, all of us in the states mis the fact that this has been going on for a very long time, this agenda chipping away at the foundations of our democracy, imperfect as it is. For 150 years we've been ignoring the warning signs, always responding with too little, too late.
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nice, but pretty late in the game. Too little, too late? We will have to wait and see. A mad King with unlimited power isn't apt to be much affected by what the law says or lawyers stand up for. We'll see.
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nor any of our Mad King's court. They are actually doing a pretty good job of what they were really hired to do,
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actually coming on long before Trump. The agenda for slicing up the world was created by those who find our Mad King is a temporary useful tool. Nothing more. Their ambitions go far beyond what a vulgar buffoon can do. But he has been useful.
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So he and Sarah Palin can see Russia from anywhere.
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my commentary on Zelensky's handling of his ill-mannered hosts, www.poems4change.org/dark-ages/great-television.pdf
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as for your numbers. of the 77M, maybe 1k are hard core. The rest are already regretting what they've done and pissed off at their own leadership. Only a few hundred who pull the Mad King's puppet strings. Anyway, the tactic gives the 77M something to think about if done correctly. That's something.
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I share your dismal prediction. hope we're wrong. Looks like we've crossed the threshold of the Dark Ages. They typically run 1,000 years. This tactic doesn't pretend to change that. Just "We cannot prevent the Dark Ages from happening, but perhaps we can shorten its length by a little." - Azimov
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and yes, Tactic #5, does not pretend to address the problem of a society having a small group of committed, thoughtless citizens trying to fuck-up the world for their own benefit. The problem of the greedy, bat-shit crazy sociopaths among us is an entirely different and separate problem.
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Same tactic I'm using with you. No attempt to persuade you, or compromise. Just listening, asking, and explaining as best I can. Leave it to you to compare the arguments. Do you have a better idea? What do we have to lose by showing them the difference of how we respond to them. That's all.
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There is no appeasement here. Just a look at the difference of how the two sides regard voters. No compromises, no sales pitches. 'We are here to listen to you and answer questions if we can.' Do what your own leaders don't. It's left to red voters to compare and decide what serves them best.
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What similarities do you find in Civil War strategy and a tactic to demonstrate we do not betray anyone like their own leadership has betrayed them? The strategy, then, was appeasement and compromise. There is none of that here. Just doing what their own leaders refused to do for them. listen/inform
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post after post, you are as angry, divisive and danger as they are, and would maintain the hostilities we have, which is how we lost this country in the first place. You haven't a clue to what being tactical to getting it back means. No point in further discussion with you. Blocking you now. S'long.
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as for my tactic, i don't think you read it. It has nothing to do with "convincing". It merely provides something a large majority of Republicans want that their own Party refuses to give them. Somebody who listens to their grievances and gives honest answers to their questions. That is enough.
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I didn't say what you offered was "pointless" or "worthless". indeed, i think we should try everything. I've only said, given the unlimited power we've handed over to a Mad King, they are easily ignored or swept away by a fascist tyrant. History should have told you that much.
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wish we had a place to chat. I think we might have useful information to exchange that a 300char limit simply won't.
my facebook page is 'red slider'. you may find things there of interest, and can always PM me there.
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Better to learn about the methodical tyranny of Augustus Caesar than the megalomaniacal savagery of a Hitler. When the crude 'shock&aw' period of our Mad King is over, and it morphs into the long-term strategies of a tyrannical Dark Ages, the reign of Augustus will prove far more informative.
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I think I'm going to have to say those "misguided" include all of us. The chipping away at our Constitution, our democracy, and the human project, imperfect as it is, has been going on for 150 years (1886 was a landmark year). The flags and warning have been there all along, and we ignored them.
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yes, but its the other arm, two legs and a penis that I worry about. Who do those belong to? Musk might own one, but that still leaves 2 other appendages that remain in the shadows.