A call to “arms” as it were. In fighting a low intensity conflict it seems we have multiple courses of action. One is to defy quietly and surreptitiously as if we are using guerilla tactics. This may be preferred in some cases as the MAGAts want their reichstag moment. In other venues it must be head on confrontational such as in town hall fora, peaceful demonstration, writing and getting the word out.
Bring up uncomfortable truths to MAGAts…why is the Orange one trying to protect a know pedophile suddenly? Why is fat orange seen in so many pictures with said pedophiles? Did you note for agent Orange to take away your Medicare, Medicaid, and social security?
Create cognitive dissonance for MAGAts at every opportunity! Use their victimhood complex against them as a weapon to jar their minds?
See ICE, record them, tell them they are breaking the law, shame them for wearing masks and more kit than the 101st Airborne.
Bravo Paul, very well said. I like the "courses of action" language, with which I agree. In my campaigns, I very rarely depended on one COA but utilized multiple because the tactics in one, may often work with the others as well. I liken running influence campaigns as the job of a juggler. Succeeding depends on keeping multiple balls in the air at one time, even if they are not all balls. Also the reason that we need as many action oriented resisters. Everyone has different skills and venues. All are profitable if well coordinated. I will recommend your courses of actions and tactics. Bravo.
Cobaugh’s right about one thing: we are already in the fight, whether the brunch-and-Netflix crowd wants to face it or not. But here’s the blunt add-on he didn’t say: Low Intensity Conflict is designed to make you think you’re not in a war while every single institution is being gutted, bought, and rewired to serve oligarchs and zealots. That’s the point – you’ll wake up when it’s too late, when your rights are gone, the courts are packed, the press is cowed, and you’re a tenant in your own country.
The DNC isn’t going to save us. “Leaders” aren’t coming. We are it, the Minutemen, the field medics, the supply chain, and the resistance all rolled into one. The GOP has been running this influence campaign for decades, fine-tuned by authoritarians at home and abroad. If you still think voting every other November without organized, sustained action is enough, congratulations – you’re doing exactly what the autocrats are counting on.
We can’t meet LIC with “let’s wait and see.” We meet it with a disciplined, relentless, coordinated push in the streets, in courtrooms, in statehouses, in every contested cultural space. The clock isn’t ticking, it’s blaring.
Thanks most kindly for your comments. I find it an excellent assessment of where we are in the LIC. The fight is real, whether everyone believes it or not.
Having revisited The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich back in 2017, then Barbara F. Walter's How Civil Wars Start, and finally David Ucko's The Insurgent's Dilemma ... this is all just painfully obvious to me. But even now, with a masked ethnosectarian militia terrorizing the streets of my city, most of the nominal "leadership" that should be opposing this are worse than useless. They don't just fail to do anything, they sit there in the way of people who might. The Democratic establishment backing sex pest Cuomo over primary winner Mamdani is just one of the more glaring examples. The Democratic party needs (and will get) the same treatment the Tea Party gave the GOP back in 2010/2012 ... if our democracy survives long enough for that impetus to matter.
You speak in principle that we should be acting. I no longer do. After fifteen years of slogging along, trying to prevent this, the only response to a hopeful "So ... what are you gonna do?" is to look back and say "Sit here and wait to see what YOU do." I'm not the American least interested in the outcome, but after the price paid by my family and friends for those fifteen years, I will never again be the most. Someone else can walk point for a while.
A call to “arms” as it were. In fighting a low intensity conflict it seems we have multiple courses of action. One is to defy quietly and surreptitiously as if we are using guerilla tactics. This may be preferred in some cases as the MAGAts want their reichstag moment. In other venues it must be head on confrontational such as in town hall fora, peaceful demonstration, writing and getting the word out.
Bring up uncomfortable truths to MAGAts…why is the Orange one trying to protect a know pedophile suddenly? Why is fat orange seen in so many pictures with said pedophiles? Did you note for agent Orange to take away your Medicare, Medicaid, and social security?
Create cognitive dissonance for MAGAts at every opportunity! Use their victimhood complex against them as a weapon to jar their minds?
See ICE, record them, tell them they are breaking the law, shame them for wearing masks and more kit than the 101st Airborne.
Bravo Paul, very well said. I like the "courses of action" language, with which I agree. In my campaigns, I very rarely depended on one COA but utilized multiple because the tactics in one, may often work with the others as well. I liken running influence campaigns as the job of a juggler. Succeeding depends on keeping multiple balls in the air at one time, even if they are not all balls. Also the reason that we need as many action oriented resisters. Everyone has different skills and venues. All are profitable if well coordinated. I will recommend your courses of actions and tactics. Bravo.
Cobaugh’s right about one thing: we are already in the fight, whether the brunch-and-Netflix crowd wants to face it or not. But here’s the blunt add-on he didn’t say: Low Intensity Conflict is designed to make you think you’re not in a war while every single institution is being gutted, bought, and rewired to serve oligarchs and zealots. That’s the point – you’ll wake up when it’s too late, when your rights are gone, the courts are packed, the press is cowed, and you’re a tenant in your own country.
The DNC isn’t going to save us. “Leaders” aren’t coming. We are it, the Minutemen, the field medics, the supply chain, and the resistance all rolled into one. The GOP has been running this influence campaign for decades, fine-tuned by authoritarians at home and abroad. If you still think voting every other November without organized, sustained action is enough, congratulations – you’re doing exactly what the autocrats are counting on.
We can’t meet LIC with “let’s wait and see.” We meet it with a disciplined, relentless, coordinated push in the streets, in courtrooms, in statehouses, in every contested cultural space. The clock isn’t ticking, it’s blaring.
Thanks most kindly for your comments. I find it an excellent assessment of where we are in the LIC. The fight is real, whether everyone believes it or not.
Having revisited The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich back in 2017, then Barbara F. Walter's How Civil Wars Start, and finally David Ucko's The Insurgent's Dilemma ... this is all just painfully obvious to me. But even now, with a masked ethnosectarian militia terrorizing the streets of my city, most of the nominal "leadership" that should be opposing this are worse than useless. They don't just fail to do anything, they sit there in the way of people who might. The Democratic establishment backing sex pest Cuomo over primary winner Mamdani is just one of the more glaring examples. The Democratic party needs (and will get) the same treatment the Tea Party gave the GOP back in 2010/2012 ... if our democracy survives long enough for that impetus to matter.
You speak in principle that we should be acting. I no longer do. After fifteen years of slogging along, trying to prevent this, the only response to a hopeful "So ... what are you gonna do?" is to look back and say "Sit here and wait to see what YOU do." I'm not the American least interested in the outcome, but after the price paid by my family and friends for those fifteen years, I will never again be the most. Someone else can walk point for a while.