This is a letter I just sent to a four-star General with whom I have had communcations with over the last few years. If a coup could be outlined in a PowerPoint I think a plan to save democracy deserves a PowerPoint too.
We gave Biden 2021 to try and pass Build Back Better. I’m not sure that’s going to work due to Manchinema, as they are now calling those two. So now, the survival of our 250-year-old democracy is coming down to voting rights.
We can all see the GOP intends to fix the elections and even override the will of the people with party loyalists who will choose electors loyal to Trump. We will lose this democracy on paper in 2022 if we don’t pass voting right protections. Is that how you see it too?
Consider this a 4-pronged PowerPoint to save democracy on the planet.It has four parts because there is something to do for the Executive, the AG, the DOD and the public.
Biden means well, but is not doing enough. That’s really why his polls are down. People are getting the impression that Biden and particularly AG Garland are not up to the tasks at hand.
WHAT JOE BIDEN CAN DO
Joe Biden has a few weeks in January to pass Build Back Better. If Manchinema are still blocking this, he needs to start campaigning in their states against them – without saying he is against them. How can he do that? This is how with a little help from email and phone lines staffed with real people.
First, he needs to make a speech in which he asks the voters in WV and AZ this: What do you want from your federal government?
He should focus his words towards MAGA voters as any strength the GOP insurectionists have is backed up by their base support. He campaigns by asking the people in GOP states what he can do for them.
Biden then sets up a hotline for people to call in their ideas for what they want and expect from their government. Staff phone lines. Open an email specially for this. Advertise it. Ask voters what they can do to help Build Back Better. I’d rather it be called BUILD BACK TOGETHER btw. The email address should be together@us.gov – or close to that. He’s going to find out we all want pretty much the same things!
Biden can speak a bit like a potential employer too. Asking them if they have any skills to lend to the new Build Back Together campaign. This will act like fireside chats worked for FDR in the WW2 era. But it will also act to expose Manchin and Sinema and Abbott as people who do not care what their constituents want. It will pressure them.
And a few weeks later he can report to America what his polls said. And then he can point out that Manchin and Cinema are blocking him from getting the people what they want.
In effect, Biden needs to go to war with the obstructionists within his own party, without saying it. So this is a way to do that by asking the constituents what they want from their federal government.
Here is a link to my previous post with more ideas to save the democracy and end the GOP stranglehold on Congress. I would not miss this. Outside the box thinking from constituents is part of what is missing from the Dem agenda.
WHAT THE DOD CAN DO
A coup is an attempt to overthrow the government, is it not? The DOD was created to protect us from exactly what we are seeing. Every member of the DOD, from private first class to general takes an oath to protect this government – not just the lands – but the functions of the government too.
We get that the DOD has to stay apolitical. DOD can’t take weapons to congressmen and a former president. That’s banana republic stuff. But know this. Trump tried to get control of the DOD and failed. That’s really why he is not in power still. I am thankful for that. But next time, if Trump or his GOP sycophants get back in power, they will remove every DOD member who does not go along with what they want. They learned that in their first attempted coup. They are removing election board members who are not corruptible now.
The GOP also know they will eventually need the cooperation of the DOD. So maybe they start a physical war right away in a new adminictration if they win, and then DOD can’t say no. They are clever that way.
TRUMP’S GOP NEEDS TO KNOW THEY WILL NEVER HAVE THE DOD IN THEIR POCKET! They don’t know that in their bones yet. They have not given up.
Yesterday, there was a crack in the darkness that provided an opportunity to get DOD INTEL involved with the Jan6 investigations.The committtee spoke of adding people to go over social media posts to see if foreign governments were involved. ( They were. Putin started this whole cyber war thing. Trump was never smart or educated in worldly things. He does not even read to learn. )
That’s your DOD’s wheelhouse – protecting us from foreign governments! It’s a potential entrance ramp. Ask to help in this effort only! You are going to find out it was all Russia coordinating with GOP and others and that it started in 2015. Mueller may even become relevant again.
If you get DOD Intel involved in that specific effort, that alone may end Trumpism. Why do I say that?
Right now, many GOP are shaking in their boots about what the Jan6 Committee will turn up against them. Many insurrectionists close to Trump are pleading the 5th. They are praying they get back in power so they can end all these investigations. You know that too. So, by them seeing the DOD is involved in getting to the truth – even tangentially – they will get the feeling that even getting back in power will not sway the DOD from their oath to protect democracy. Right now, they can hope. SHUT DOWN THAT HOPE!
The effect may be that those who are pleading the 5th or hiding the truth decide they don’t want to fight the DOD – which is never popular with ANY Americans. DOD involvement in the Jan6 investigations – even if it’s just computer geeks – can end Trumpism stat. A few key defectors from that “thick as thieves” brotherhood of insurrectionists – and they are done. Democracy saved!
That’s what you can do persoanlly. Help make that happen . Get authority from DOD Intel. Call Joe Biden or Bennie Thompson. Offer DOD help to protect democracy with respect to this attempt to cover social media posts.
Don’t worry about “politics”. The GOP members who stand with insurrection are clearly not really well-intended Congressmen. Criminals and traitors to democracy do not deserve the cover of being Congressmen. And if that is not enough to sway you, defer to your oath to protect the democracy – or your private oath which I know you have made to yourself – to spend your time on earth doing good for others. What else is there really?
WHAT OUR AG CAN DO
There was a coup attempt. The AG and FBI need to be visibily involved in the effort to prosecute those involved in the coup. Absent of that, the coup attempt will continue. It’s that simple.
If Garland is not up to the task, there are plenty of prosecuters who are. Biden needs to tell Garland to start proscuting the insurrectionists in our government and restraining and monitoring their activities. If we don’t see this by January 15th by the AG – Biden should find a new AG stat.
Timing is important here. Democracy’s clock is running out. We need conclusions by April so the public can get onvolved inthe spring. That means we need to start proscuting higher-ups in January.
WHAT CITIZENS CAN DO
The citizens must eventually get street active again. That’s done easiest when the weather breaks. Covid is not our friend here. So for now, the citizens are relatively calm and trying to enjoy the season and busy surviving covid. By April, I hope we will see outrage in the streets on voting rights.
A JOINT EFFORT TO SAVE DEMOCRACY IN THE USA (and on the planet)
This is the map of democracies and autocracies on the planet. You can see that if the USA waffles in the next few months, the autocrats can take the USA and then rest of the planet has no defense.
Remember this too. Autocracy is 8000 years old. Democracy is about 250 years old. Historically, democracy is the underdog.
In this PowerPoint, there was something to do for the president, the AG, the DOD and the public. If everyone does their part, this will not fail.
Notice that I have NOT mentioned a task for Congress. Congress is clearly infected. I expect Congressmembers to keep fighing with each other along party lines. I don’t expect much out of Congress when 50% of it is in on the coup – either actively or by association with their party. ………
Thank you for your time in reading this and considering getting into the fight to save democracy and the planet. That’s what’s at stake and I think you know that down deep.
Joseph Aronesty
73 years now – just a citizen of the USA trying to regain his pride in the nation.
Meme for the campaign to engage all Americans in rebuilding America.
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