hegemonists who have funded and enabled a viciously ignorant, arrogant, and radical fringe who have used those resources to seize the Republican party, the Senate, and the White House. And I strongly believe that neither voting or elections is going to create … 3/35
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dumb). It just slows enough of it down at strategic points to take the easy or excess profits out of daily income steam of massive corporations until their own shareholders force them to take steps to end their tacit and sometimes covert financial or rhetorical … 14/35
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support, and help call for an end to this ruinous radicalism and obstructionism that has paralyzed our government and rendered most of its bureaucracy dysfunctional. Stop the easy money from flowing to our 20 biggest companies, banks, and employers, and … 15/35
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ironically, the power of the free market will wash these malignant, anti-social reprobates and misanthropes out to sea. These scoundrels never had a master plan anyway; only fuzzy goals revolving around the preservation of wealth and power. We made it way too … 16/35
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easy for them to reach those goals, ever since Ronald Reagan tricked so many into thinking the supply siders were the economic police coming to rescue us from their grandfather’s greed. In fact, they were just a new class of economic muggers in Brioni suits. And … 17/35
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they only persist in making us miserable because we on the American Left have simply assumed politicians would fix this for us, and have done almost nothing on our own to fight back. Sure, groups like Indivisible have done an admirable job on the electoral front, … 18/35
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but elections just don’t create sea-changes. In many ways, they create another level of delay or avoidance of them. Politicians cannot and will not fix this unless we FORCE them to. No Teddy Roosevelt is going to ride up on a white horse and save us. Not this … 19/35
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time. We have to declare war on the people and institutions driving this oppression, just as the founders declared war on the Crown. We have to rise up, make a ruckus, and put our boot on the throats of the stock prices of every company that does not do all that … 20/35
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I suggest above, while also demanding that their most owned politicians renounce Fox news and the fever swamp media, and put an end to their ritualized lying and malfeasance. Then, without all that destructive and distracting noise, they can start dancing with the … 21/35
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rest of us to a more forward-looking, reform-oriented tune. If and until they do, we will just have to creatively suck more dollars out of them wherever and whenever possible. Precisely how that can be done (through carefully calibrated acts of disobedience and … 22/35
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disruption) is a whole other thread, but just assume for the moment that it’s quite possible if and when enough pivotal “power players” (public figures and celebrities with massive digital reach and influence) decide to join hands and help make it … 23/35
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happen. Greenpeace proved long ago that a very small and motivated group can cause a lot of chaos to corporate planning and profits. And that was before the age of digital everything. It’s way easier now, because corporations have hitched their wagons to the same … 24/35
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digital everything. That makes them vulnerable. And those like Amazon that depend on the web completely are actually quite brittle. And what is brittle can break. The demands I’m suggesting can be quite modest. They would be mostly proposed legislation already on … 25/35
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the books concerning campaign financing, media consolidation, lobbying, and corruption. Just five key laws, plus a cheap and easy transaction tax on securities could change everything. The “asks” (a nicer word than demands) would be simple, reasonable, and in most … 26/35
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societies, not overly controversial. If pols push them through, we all win. If they oppose them, their campaign donors will pay for their recalcitrance with an ongoing economic chaos that rotates among multiple corporate targets until everyone is sick of the … 27/35
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costly warfare and donors relearn the hard way that good government and social stability is a shit-ton more profitable than chaos. Exactly what we demand is just details. There are many options. That’s just arranging a few bases in the infield and batters in the … 28/35
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line-up. The hard part is motivating enough pivotal players to agree on this plan. If they do, we can rewrite the rules of the game (on our terms), get out on the field, and swing for the fences. We collectively insist on the core reforms, without which any real … 29/35
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and lasting change will be all but impossible. And that’s the whole ball game. Once we start winning here, and we’ve neutered the super-villains like
@rupertmurdoch and the conniving bagmen like@jimInhofe, we can then lead the world against their backers and … 30/35Prikaži ovu nit -
co-conspirators who seem quite determined to murder our one and only planet. And we all have a very short time on this planet (trust me on that). So we must make a choice. What we do here and now many well affect the evolution of our civilizations for hundreds, … 31/35
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even thousands of years. Either the greedy, powerful and stupid will rule us all, as Republicans (and global elites) seem perfectly comfortable with, or we stop the train right here and demand paths toward something more equitable for our nation, our planet, and … 32/35
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our species. For me, it’s not a hard choice. And time is not on our side. Look at the authoritarian baby-steps the Trumpists are already taking. Imagine what the next recession is going to do for them? (And we’re already on the cusp of a bubble that every … 33/35
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economist knows is going to burst. And soon.) To me, we’re in a go big or go home situation. And there just isn’t much left to go home to. They already own most of it. So there it is. That’s my take and my outline of a planB. And in just 35 short tweets! If you … 34/35
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have one, I’m all ears, and if it’s coherent and thoughtful, I’ll be happy to share it.
#PlanB
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