"Step 1: Tear Down Trust" - Well, why not use this strategy against the Republican Party as a whole. In Stuart Stevens' book, "It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump", Julian E. Zelizer of The New York Times writes, "... Stevens confesses to the reader that the entire apparatus of his Republican Party is built on a pack of lies..."
It Was All a Lie is not just an indictment of the Republican Party, but Stevens' own candid and often lacerating mea culpa where he simply tells us what he has seen firsthand in his various roles within the Republican Party.
Now, it's time to build upon his revelations and make the following a simple NATIONAL statement: REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS. Nothing more. Just keep putting it out there like Trump has learned to do very well, I might add and that is to keep saying the SAME THING over and over again until people start believing it.
We KNOW it works - look at MAGA as proof positive.
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
And for the record, I am a former registered Republican who voted straight party ticket for some 30 years until I switched to being a registered Independent ever since the Bush/Gore election.
I am a librarian with a master’s in the 1970s (i.e. dinosaur age). I learned research methods using primary sources and regularly used them. I recall expert witnesses who were frustrated when the items cited on their CVs were not found. At this point in my retirement, I question everything. It is called “The Heretical Imperative” in the Northumbria Community: “To choose to seek God in Christ and to discover His Truth in a pluralistic, secular and materialistic world, being unafraid to listen or to ask awkward questions, of others and ourselves, as part of the quest.”
I one place I have found as a "rabbit hole" is on Quora. I don't check out much on them anymore, why? Because I was called one of "those liberals" that doesn't know what they are talking about. I'm in my 70's, I've lived through numerous conflicts of war. I've seen how a "conflict" turns into years of it and I'm rather anti-war. I've never seen anything like this from ANY one on the "other" side. Meaning, the MAGA and extreme right people label anyone who has a hint of liberal to them as "radical" or "terrorist" which I believe is wrong no matter who says it. Most of the "labeis" that have been coming out of their mouths come straight from the top one in our government!
The first place I go to validate information is Associated Press. Then from there I start looking for articles that can back up their information. Just because the Washington Post prints an article, doesn't mean I happen to trust it now, especially with its new owner. Having grown up around the belt way, I read the paper and followed the news to see what was going on. God how I wish a Katherine Graham could magically appear and lead the way back to investigated journalism for the Washington Post. No where was our government scrutinized and read about like it was in Maryland and Virginia. We kept abreast of what was going on because we all depended on what was happening in and around Washington DC. Loud mouth opinions expressed on the radio were listened to by people who chose not to read news papers and became influenced by ignorance, rather than looking at the information that was available to us. When I read an article, I look to see how it's written. Then I look at what I'm being fed by the article and lastly, I use my brain to figure out if it has facts. Facts that can be accounted for, facts that are recorded in different areas. I hate stories that are spread by post after post. A friend gave me an article about diet soda. The person who wrote the article was talking about how sick her sister was. How they couldn't find a reason for her illness. After being in the hospital, she was no longer drinking diet soda and had a miraculous recovery. Not one fact given, just a degrading opinion on diet soda. I read the article and looked at my friend and said "did you ever consider that this might be a story to promote sugar, by the sugar industry?". End of story.
I am a centrist independent. I am old enough (78) to say I would be a Rockefeller Republican if either word still had any meaning. For me, that meant being a social liberal or even progressive at the same time being a fiscal conservative.
I check Fox News at least one daily because I believe that real research means you know what the opposition is thinking and saying. It also allows me to hold a reasonably civil discussion with my neighbors.
I have several email accounts across different providers. I rotate them. I clear my cookies once or twice a day. I avoid Google whenever possible, preferring DuckDuckGo. I use a VPN.
The folks who desperately need to “do their own research” are, in the case of Trumpists, largely unequipped by education or experience to do it. For them chat gpt or google, truth social or the site formerly known as twitter, or their neighbor’s nephew’s buddy, are all legitimate sources. Or the dulcet tones of Dear Leader Donald J Trump…the true source. And that’s just the ones who can read. Or who do read. Critical thinking? Informed source material? Decency? Nah…..entirely too woke for real Mericans…….
"Step 1: Tear Down Trust" - Well, why not use this strategy against the Republican Party as a whole. In Stuart Stevens' book, "It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump", Julian E. Zelizer of The New York Times writes, "... Stevens confesses to the reader that the entire apparatus of his Republican Party is built on a pack of lies..."
It Was All a Lie is not just an indictment of the Republican Party, but Stevens' own candid and often lacerating mea culpa where he simply tells us what he has seen firsthand in his various roles within the Republican Party.
Now, it's time to build upon his revelations and make the following a simple NATIONAL statement: REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS. Nothing more. Just keep putting it out there like Trump has learned to do very well, I might add and that is to keep saying the SAME THING over and over again until people start believing it.
We KNOW it works - look at MAGA as proof positive.
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
REPUBLICANS ARE LIARS
And for the record, I am a former registered Republican who voted straight party ticket for some 30 years until I switched to being a registered Independent ever since the Bush/Gore election.
I am sad that my funds no longer allow me to support Lincoln Square and other Substacks.. When my financial situation improves, I will return.
I am a librarian with a master’s in the 1970s (i.e. dinosaur age). I learned research methods using primary sources and regularly used them. I recall expert witnesses who were frustrated when the items cited on their CVs were not found. At this point in my retirement, I question everything. It is called “The Heretical Imperative” in the Northumbria Community: “To choose to seek God in Christ and to discover His Truth in a pluralistic, secular and materialistic world, being unafraid to listen or to ask awkward questions, of others and ourselves, as part of the quest.”
I one place I have found as a "rabbit hole" is on Quora. I don't check out much on them anymore, why? Because I was called one of "those liberals" that doesn't know what they are talking about. I'm in my 70's, I've lived through numerous conflicts of war. I've seen how a "conflict" turns into years of it and I'm rather anti-war. I've never seen anything like this from ANY one on the "other" side. Meaning, the MAGA and extreme right people label anyone who has a hint of liberal to them as "radical" or "terrorist" which I believe is wrong no matter who says it. Most of the "labeis" that have been coming out of their mouths come straight from the top one in our government!
The first place I go to validate information is Associated Press. Then from there I start looking for articles that can back up their information. Just because the Washington Post prints an article, doesn't mean I happen to trust it now, especially with its new owner. Having grown up around the belt way, I read the paper and followed the news to see what was going on. God how I wish a Katherine Graham could magically appear and lead the way back to investigated journalism for the Washington Post. No where was our government scrutinized and read about like it was in Maryland and Virginia. We kept abreast of what was going on because we all depended on what was happening in and around Washington DC. Loud mouth opinions expressed on the radio were listened to by people who chose not to read news papers and became influenced by ignorance, rather than looking at the information that was available to us. When I read an article, I look to see how it's written. Then I look at what I'm being fed by the article and lastly, I use my brain to figure out if it has facts. Facts that can be accounted for, facts that are recorded in different areas. I hate stories that are spread by post after post. A friend gave me an article about diet soda. The person who wrote the article was talking about how sick her sister was. How they couldn't find a reason for her illness. After being in the hospital, she was no longer drinking diet soda and had a miraculous recovery. Not one fact given, just a degrading opinion on diet soda. I read the article and looked at my friend and said "did you ever consider that this might be a story to promote sugar, by the sugar industry?". End of story.
I am a centrist independent. I am old enough (78) to say I would be a Rockefeller Republican if either word still had any meaning. For me, that meant being a social liberal or even progressive at the same time being a fiscal conservative.
I check Fox News at least one daily because I believe that real research means you know what the opposition is thinking and saying. It also allows me to hold a reasonably civil discussion with my neighbors.
I have several email accounts across different providers. I rotate them. I clear my cookies once or twice a day. I avoid Google whenever possible, preferring DuckDuckGo. I use a VPN.
The folks who desperately need to “do their own research” are, in the case of Trumpists, largely unequipped by education or experience to do it. For them chat gpt or google, truth social or the site formerly known as twitter, or their neighbor’s nephew’s buddy, are all legitimate sources. Or the dulcet tones of Dear Leader Donald J Trump…the true source. And that’s just the ones who can read. Or who do read. Critical thinking? Informed source material? Decency? Nah…..entirely too woke for real Mericans…….