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delisen

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5. I think we need to reach an agreement that we are in a battle for our
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 02:32 PM
Sep 2018

country and our democratic form of government. I don't think we are all yet at the point so we need to open up discussion. Then it comes to forming a sort of. nation-wide union but with strong local action. `We are a majority but a minority has seized a lot of the levers of our government. We probably have like minded people among us in every nook and cranny in the country who have useful information to provide, and many people skilled in analyzing and planning. Basically we need a nationwide union

I would like us to get more coordinated and less dependent upon stuff like "morning Joe and Mika" for news and opinion. They are a ratings driven infotainment show and are manipulating their viewers.

We the people who want to fight are in the millions but we to be investigating a lot ourselves. Too much is still being filtered by well-meaning outlets which do not understand the clear and present danger, Even worse is the information and misinformation that is being filtered through nefarious outlets.

We have to start naming things-the Federalist Society is an enemy of democracy. It isn't something they hideThe have been putting out propaganda for decades and have gotten their people into positions of immense power. It operates like the worst of fraternities and Kavanaugh is one of the products it has produced. We need to start talking about it and writing about it and citizen-investigating and sharing information about it.

Let's take the Georgia. The attorney general is a Federalist Society lawyer If we had here a thread dealing specifically with the Federalist society as an opponent of democracy, several of us could share developments with people in other states especially those where the society has made inroads-then we can start informing some of the publications where the society plants stories- and start countering them.

I would like to see a branch of the union which specializes in mapping out the the opponents of democracy so we can all get a handle on the networks of negative power and how to monitor their infiltration of our government. Not to stalk them but to counter them. There is no way so many people in power should be coming from the upper classes of the Maryland, /D.C./northern Virginia private school circuit. their experience is simply too narrow and biased for them to function fairly in a diverse society.

I think it is time to start talking more openly about the authoritarian wave that is once again sweeping through western countries-not just emotionally but objectively. We are in a wave like the one that swept over country in the 1930s. We did beat back that wave but we started too late to prevent a bloodbath.

We need a vocabulary for our times. Left and right doesn't seem to fit anymore.

Right now I am looking for 510 people in Georgia who can who are liberal/antiauthoritarian, open-minded, willing to analyze and share and not defeatist.

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