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(80,700 posts)I was afraid of that.
All the noise about ALEC. Well, that shoved a big spotlight on them and suddenly they were exposed and GAK! That organization started taking on water. So, figure it this way: when you spot the big ant hill in the garden, or you figure out where the termites started getting a foothold in your rafters, whaddya do? You call the bug exterminators or you spray or otherwise attack the source of the infestation. Okay fine. Job done, and the problem's solved, correct?
FUCKING ASS NOOOOOO!!!!!! NO! NO! NO!!! Think of what happens next? Have you REALLY gotten rid of the ants? Have you REALLY eradicated all the termites? Not on your freakin' LIFE! If you don't want another infestation, you have to keep after them. You have to stay vigilant. You have to be always on watch, always on alert, always doing whatever you can, preventively, to KEEP them away. You can't just sit back and think - "ahhh
cool! Problem solved! All gone! Let's relax and go back to sleep!"
Well, here, too. I was afraid that the exposure of ALEC to the blinding sunlight would only be a temporary victory. When one of their strategies doesn't work, these vermin just figure out a different way, a new plan of attack, set up a new organization or some new venture that will basically continue the same job on the same objectives, just - not called the same thing. Maybe not headquartered in the same building. But they're STILL there, and they're STILL doing their dirty work, and they're STILL hellbent on the same objectives, and they're STILL operating at full speed and metastasizing like a runaway cancer.
And I'd bet you cash money that that this is EXACTLY what's happened now that ALEC has been exposed and set back. That didn't stop 'em for a nanosecond. I bet they probably planned for precisely this "small" reversal. And to them it is. It hasn't stopped 'em at all. I'd bet they already had this one up and running, in anticipation of what we might do.
I'd also bet you cash money that most of our Dems assumed that once ALEC was exposed, the job was done, work is finished, we got 'em, and that's that. Problem solved! No more ALEC! Stand down red alert! Everybody can relax now. Let's all go back to sleep!
You ALWAYS have to think several steps ahead with these people. BELIEVE ME, they've got layers of staff people doing exactly that, at all times. They're always planning and adjusting and like a nest of termites, looking for the next weak spot where they can get in and resume their dirty work, and eat your house out from under you. Shit - do we have ANYBODY doing that? ANYBODY thinking that way? Hey Debbie, has this occurred to you AT ALL, Miss Asleep-at-the-Switch???? Probably not.