An exciting find, this article tops Highest Recommendation.
While obvious on one level, the powerful simplicity illuminated by this article is capable of building a single, compelling message against Republicons whose agenda is so fraught with multiple atrocities, that a one message response becomes obscured.
Successful opposition needs to be unified opposition. But Blue voters legitimately have many crucial causes to champion. Focus on any one tends to reduce focus on others. The resentments fracture us. Pain and calamity respond poorly to any necessary level of patience we can ill afford. Those resentments break our unity, and then Republicons win elections. Democratic “messaging” is dissected and found lacking.
The multiple imperative issues raised by Republicon goals are so divisive, they successfully divide opposition to them, as each and every theme is so crucially necessary to oppose. And then political pundits tell Democrats that they can’t just run on not being Republicons, and yet Republicons at this point represent every stance that Democrats must oppose, and Republicons hold more power.
It may turn out that every divisive Republicon agenda can in fact be resisted under one unified banner.
A core Republicon motif in ascendancy right now: Racism. Xenophobia. Hatred and fear given justification. Intolerance asking for tolerance. Republicon hypocrisy fear mongering about Democratic “identity politics” as divisive, to mask the central division of Republicon supported white Christian male dominance against everyone else. The confounding strangeness that this is an agenda furthered by conservative women and even conservative Latinos, blacks, Jews, non-heterosexuals, and others, for various convoluted reasons.
White supremacy – an inherent supremacy of whites – is a lie.
Inherent male supremacy is a lie.
And who knows – not faithfully believes, but knows, what is truth, or not, about any religion…but Christian political dominion in this country is a lie. That is especially true for the minority, upstart, wealthy, amoral, bastardized political-religiosity of Evangelical Christians.
Then there is the constant core of Republicon agenda: money. Wealth consolidated in the hands of the few. Republicon attacks on the grounds of “class warfare,” as if the obscenely, incomprehensibly wealthy are suffering when others object. Republicon manipulation of dark money and invisible, privacy-protected donors. “Corporations are people too,” with, coincidentally, millions of resources beyond those citizens who indisputably are people. People who have not achieved some certain level of wealth as undeserving of retirement other than death, or undeserving of healthcare, shelter, food, water, justice, freedom, and habitable specks of territory on the planet.
Wealth as the only human “value” is a lie.
Owners, shareholders, and employers deserving hundreds of thousands, and millions, and billions, more in remuneration than all the workers who do the work, that too is a lie.
Of course, a central prop of Republicons, conservative media, is built on foundations of crass manipulations and lies.
In a society with laws against murder, “manslaughter,” and wrongful death, it is a lie to allow anyone to own and carry guns without reasonable regulation and restrictions.
In our system of law and justice, it is a lie to allow private entities to incarcerate others to make profits running privatized prisons. “Law and order” enforcing injustices based on poverty, or race, is inherently a lie.
Climate change denial is a lie.
The pattern should be evident. The message opposing Republicon agendas and the party itself can become evident too. No one wants to be the fools who get lied to. It is always simply a matter of reaching that understanding that causes hard feelings about that situation. How much more powerful those feelings, when the understanding reached about those lies is true – when it is understanding based on truth?
There is no one outside the Republicon Party who has not noted their lies and their attacks on truth, which have culminated with trump in the White House. And trump in the White House, as well as his entire administration, have exponentially increased not just the lies, but also the indifference to any credibility. The Republicons attack even the foundations of our human search for truth, such as education, and science, and Newt Gingrich’s and Mitch McConnell’s rejection of debate and discussion.
Humans want truth. If they can’t find it, they’ll make it up, and yet despite the damage done by Republicons, most people in this country do believe in the idea of truth itself.
Already, as with HR 1, there is Democratic messaging in favor of justice, and ethical government, and against corruption, against tainting and suppressing fair and open elections.
We note every day, constantly, the lies that Republicons use. It seems suddenly more clear that we should unite behind finding ways to use their lying, and their own lies, against them.
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