What we need is collective action of those who believe in and adhere to the spirit in which our country was founded and forged over time. That is the message. If each of us would only speak up and take action in our spheres of influence within our families, communities, and jobs we can help sustain a resistance and a “guerilla” offensive against GOP tyranny. But at some point we will need coordination and a focal around which we can all gather strength to push the wannabe dictators out. This is where we need the DNC to step up, and if not them, then find another way. Once we have that focal point, we cannot fall victim to idea of “ideological purity” that permeates the far left and far right.
The question so many would ask is, “What is that focal point?” Simply I would reply it is simple decency, treat people as you would wish to be treated, everybody has the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness as Jefferson write nearly 225 years ago. That focal point is embodied in the Constitution and its ideas that it is a living document that builds on the basic Bill of Rights.
Collectively we need to understand this is not a fight at its core about “policy” as so many want to couch it! It is a fight about core values on who we are and how we treat each other. Are we respectful of ourselves and others, empathetic? Or are we at our core cruel, authoritarian, vindictive, and greedy?
I hypothesize if we approached so many who voted for the orange disease with these kinds of questions, we might get an opening to change hearts and minds to understand the core Bill of Rights is what we are fighting for.
Paul, we are in agreement. This has been my approach since beginning this publication. Our problem is in how to go about this (Narrative Warfare that the DNC is clueless about) and the lock that the GOP has on media communications. Their algorithms are killing legitimate patriotism around those founding values. For example, LinkedIn's new algorithm, has me throttled and/ or shadow-banned when posting these essays. Where I used to receive a couple of thousand up to 20,000 views of an article, now I only get 15 or 20 individual views. FB, is a sewer of adversarial influence tactics.
There are a great many influence operations ongoing by a combination of Russian and US/ GOP influence operators that are funded by US and other global oligarchs. Your comments are spot on and would be quite effective, if we could get them out. I try and restack your comments when they appear. There are amazing writers on this platform that are excellent in supporting the concepts that you and I write about. Thank goodness that Substack does a far-better job of protecting their subscribers than any other platform. I am grateful to them.
Please continue commenting and I will do my best to keep your thoughts in circulation.
What we need is collective action of those who believe in and adhere to the spirit in which our country was founded and forged over time. That is the message. If each of us would only speak up and take action in our spheres of influence within our families, communities, and jobs we can help sustain a resistance and a “guerilla” offensive against GOP tyranny. But at some point we will need coordination and a focal around which we can all gather strength to push the wannabe dictators out. This is where we need the DNC to step up, and if not them, then find another way. Once we have that focal point, we cannot fall victim to idea of “ideological purity” that permeates the far left and far right.
The question so many would ask is, “What is that focal point?” Simply I would reply it is simple decency, treat people as you would wish to be treated, everybody has the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness as Jefferson write nearly 225 years ago. That focal point is embodied in the Constitution and its ideas that it is a living document that builds on the basic Bill of Rights.
Collectively we need to understand this is not a fight at its core about “policy” as so many want to couch it! It is a fight about core values on who we are and how we treat each other. Are we respectful of ourselves and others, empathetic? Or are we at our core cruel, authoritarian, vindictive, and greedy?
I hypothesize if we approached so many who voted for the orange disease with these kinds of questions, we might get an opening to change hearts and minds to understand the core Bill of Rights is what we are fighting for.
Paul, we are in agreement. This has been my approach since beginning this publication. Our problem is in how to go about this (Narrative Warfare that the DNC is clueless about) and the lock that the GOP has on media communications. Their algorithms are killing legitimate patriotism around those founding values. For example, LinkedIn's new algorithm, has me throttled and/ or shadow-banned when posting these essays. Where I used to receive a couple of thousand up to 20,000 views of an article, now I only get 15 or 20 individual views. FB, is a sewer of adversarial influence tactics.
There are a great many influence operations ongoing by a combination of Russian and US/ GOP influence operators that are funded by US and other global oligarchs. Your comments are spot on and would be quite effective, if we could get them out. I try and restack your comments when they appear. There are amazing writers on this platform that are excellent in supporting the concepts that you and I write about. Thank goodness that Substack does a far-better job of protecting their subscribers than any other platform. I am grateful to them.
Please continue commenting and I will do my best to keep your thoughts in circulation.
Best for your day.