4. Trump isn’t just attacking immIgrants, trans people, and his political opponents. He’s attacking FBI agents, doctors, people who rely on trade with Canada, farmers in the conservative Central Valley of California.
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5. Strikes me as a critically important task to reach out to those people, especially ones that supported Trump. Engage them. Make two minute documentaries, giving voice to their frustrations. Write articles about them. Democratic politicians should reach out and show them their concern.
It requires getting to a lower level. Print a bunch of stickers that say "avian flu made me expensive. Trump halted flu tracking and reporting." Put them on egg cartons in a Walmart in a conservative area. (Better yet, *in* egg cartons so they don't see it until they get home.) For example.
The narrative needs to also include to give those with buyers remorse permission to disagree with *some* of the proposed changes. Most 🍊 have this all or nothing mentality. We need to help them feel comfortable, know that they aren’t a lib by looking out for themselves.
6. For a long time in the back of my mind, I realize I had Hitler as a loose metaphor. Now I’m thinking more Jim Jones. He wants to burn it all to the ground. Hugely dangerous, but not quite the same thing.
Except for the part about killing other aid to countries including babies, the 30k bed camp at Guantanamo and taking over other countries. It’s all 3rd Reich which was based on US alt right KKK racism/sexism of 1920’s.
7. As frustrating and awful and inhumane as the culture can be, we all have a lot invested in it. We’ve ordered our lives around settled expectations. The ways that those stand to be disrupted is going to be shocking to lots of people including Trump voters.
8. One of our primary tasks must be to help people see how the concrete negative consequences that they see in their own lives are a result of Trump. And we need to do it over and over and over again.
Over and over and over again forever.
Because people are stupid and will forget about it as soon as things improve moderately.
They lived through 4 years of his bullshit and then through a few years of his criminal trials and then his batshit campaign and still forgot.
9. Unfortunately, most Democratic elected politicians are completely useless. Beyond useless. Actively a hindrance. And the press, especially our nations most esteemed newspapers are failing spectacularly. We have few institutional allies.
10. But each of us in our own space can resist. Slow things down. Make them fire you rather than quit. Reach out to others. Especially others who may be feeling buyers remorse.
Agree. Little we can do except flood our reps phones and mailboxes. The press has been slow to report and when they do,it’s flat. D’s have been slow. They think this is normal. A few have awakened.
You know who really gets this? Homeless folks. For every lib who sneers at the tent people, there are a dozen in those tents who understand global fascism intimately.
It's wild how many people are so invested in finding some way to bash the libs in any & every context, given that they are the largest voting bloc in the US* & the ones who do the most work on the ground to actually make things better.
*before the GOP purged >20 million voters between 2020-2024
Yep. Most people are unnerved by change, especially when their security blankets are ripped out from under them. I agree, MAGAS are not immune to feeling anxiety and fear when life becomes so unpredictable. I wonder how they will react and where they will focus their anger.
been thinking a lot about leo ryan (the congressman who died investigating jonestown, earlier checked himself into folsom prison nellie bly style to investigate conditions)
as example of the kind of 'showing up' energy I wish still existed in the congress
This is true. What affected Jones the most was when he took his first trip to Jonestown, he lost a ton of followers and that initial wound started a chain reaction that ended at Jonestown. Trump would react the same way if his followers began to stray.
I was completely with you until you mentioned reaching out to people who supported Trump. That's all the media has been talking about since 2016.
I can't speak for anyone else, but fuck the people who support/supported Trump.
A lot of them are racists who thought Trump would harm everyone but them.
There are more people who are eligible to vote but didn't than there are Trump voters. I think, generally speaking, the non-voters would be easier to sway.
Most people in this country have televisions. They saw the dead bodies stacked in refrigerated trucks across the country during COVID. The stolen classified documents in the bathroom of his shitty as resort. January 6th.
What else will "sway" them?
There's enough independent media to produce wedge issue content to disrupt the trump coalition.
Would be nice to have half the funding & coordination of billionaire oligarch propagandists, though. And not have the majority of social media controlled by regime insiders who went to the coronation.
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Penetrating the fox bubble though: a special challenge.
Everyone was rushing to assure each other that high egg prices are all Biden's &/or "the Dems" fault, conspiring against DJT.
Gonna take a lot to get thru. 😪
Because people are stupid and will forget about it as soon as things improve moderately.
They lived through 4 years of his bullshit and then through a few years of his criminal trials and then his batshit campaign and still forgot.
*before the GOP purged >20 million voters between 2020-2024
Trump surrounds himself with white people.
as example of the kind of 'showing up' energy I wish still existed in the congress
I was at Berkeley the year Jonestown happened, and yeah,
there's a lot of similarity.
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I can't speak for anyone else, but fuck the people who support/supported Trump.
A lot of them are racists who thought Trump would harm everyone but them.
Most people in this country have televisions. They saw the dead bodies stacked in refrigerated trucks across the country during COVID. The stolen classified documents in the bathroom of his shitty as resort. January 6th.
What else will "sway" them?
Sen whitehouse talked about this on a podcast I recently listened to
Would be nice to have half the funding & coordination of billionaire oligarch propagandists, though. And not have the majority of social media controlled by regime insiders who went to the coronation.
Fixing institutions means fixing them for everyone, even the idiots who cheered when these assholes doused them in kerosene and lit the match
I get zero schadenfreude from the thought that if I’m down in the hole, a dude with a MAGA hat is down there with me
Keeping MAGA immiserated by lawlessness means that hasn’t happened
Log off.
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