The most clearly laid out summary of their plans and actions presented in a cohesive and easily understandable way I have ever read! Yes, it is long but worth every minute. I am sharing this far and wide and begging people to read it even if they have to do so in small segments and to share, share, share!
I knew almost all of the information contained, without all the names and dates, and this pulled together all the disparate info into a cohesive story of what has, and is happening on so many fronts. Bravo! Now let’s help others understand their plan and goals and ban together to run these fascists to the end of the earth!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read it and giving your feedback. It sure is pretty long. I thought about breaking it up into smaller articles, but I think keeping it all together is just better and as you said, people can always read it in parts.
Now that you have published it as a whole maybe consider republishing it in a series? Your outline/ breakdown is already written here so parse it into digestible bites. Most people will not or cannot read and/or comprehend this much information at once(so sad). Then target audiences in small bites. Unfortunately I think that is the only way people absorb information anymore.
Excellent. I too am familiar with the players, but not how they fit so seamlessly together....frightening. We dont have billions to oppose them. Just people power!!!
". . .Some former intelligence insiders find that unsurprising – dismissing the idea as a Trump-inspired fiction. “Trump is lying when he speaks of a ‘deep state’,” said Fulton Armstrong, a retired CIA analyst who served under Democratic and Republican administrations. “But if there were one, it would not be Democrat. The culture of that world is deeply Republican.”. . ."
Controlling discourse through repurposing words has been a hallmark of right-wing propaganda efforts:
All of these terms have been turned against the communities where they originated and against the left in general. The right whines about how the left dominates discourse, but has successfully changed the way all these terms are perceived and used in common discourse.
In the case of CRT, the effort was definitely not organic - it came from an explicit effort by Chris Rufo, captured in this tweet: https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1371541044592996352 (https://archive.is/0Hy2Q) "The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans."
Hanging "deep state" on the right would be a nice piece of poetic justice.
That’s exactly the plan. But one thing I find interesting is how easy it is on the right for someone to decide to make something go viral like CRT or Woke. It only takes one guy like Rufo and bam. On the other hand, on the left, it’s virtually impossible to make that happen. It’s like if someone has a good idea on messaging everyone else gets mad or something that they didn’t come up with the idea and it goes nowhere, or someone else tries to make their own version, etc. It’s very frustrating.
On the right, you can use bots, paid trolls, AI slop, etc. very effectively. Not so much on the left (although the effect is not zero).
A lot of people like to say this is because people on the right are stupid, but I think it has more to do with the psychology of grievance politics - the sense of shared grievance is powerfully unifying and kinda overwhelms and subverts the frontal lobes.
OTOH. . .a friend likes to point out that you can’t win elections without appealing to the left half of the bell curve. And simple, consistent messaging does help there.
And there is the experience of the Macedonian teenagers in Veles: “. . .Trump groups seemed to have hundreds of thousands more members than Clinton groups, which made it simpler to propel an article into virality. (For a week in July, he experimented with fake news extolling Bernie Sanders. “Bernie Sanders supporters are among the smartest people I’ve seen,” he says. “They don’t believe anything. The post must have proof for them to believe it.”). . .“ https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/
I'm not even talking about trying to spread fake information. Sure, people on the left are less prone to fall for misinformation, especially as the claims get more extreme. I'm talking about getting people behind a unified message that has potential for taking control of the narrative. It's like the left sees the right using slogans and go like "we shall never use slogans, lest we become like them" even if that means letting the right completely control the narrative including how the left gets perceived by the general population, leading Trump, a fascist dictator wannabe who's bankrupted virtually every business he has ever run, raped at least one woman (colloquial according to the judge in the E. Jean Carroll case), committed 34 felonies to win his first election and did an insurrection to try to stay in power, to appear better than democrats.
This kind of messaging and narrative ineptitude has me wondering if the rednecks are really the ones to the left of the bell curve and not Dems...
As to how to reach and unify a large number of people. . .I'm mostly outside that loop. Certainly, I follow 50501 and Indivisible, but those have limited reach. It probably requires multiple channels to reach different populations of Democratic and swing voters.
Excellent job! Yes, these people have been well organized since the '80s; but their roots go back to the fifties, when they got the government to change the U.S. motto from "E pluribus unum" to the insipid "In God We Trust." Despite seeing this as a warning, we never did pay attention to the creeping danger within. They plotted this entire scenario while we weren't looking.
Thanks for taking the time to read it. It's definitely a long one. And yea, it took a bit to put together. I really appreciate the feedback and thanks for subbing!
George Carlin predicted some of this 30 years ago.
This is a brilliant essay and deserves a wide audience and I will do what I can to bring it to the attention of journalists and social media progressive influencers.
I have thought this forever; it has made arguing with RWers impossible because in a way they are correct, they just refuse to see that they are wrong about the culprits
1. We have to build our own infrastructure designed to synergize with its parts, in a way similar to what the right wing has done.
2. We need to get better at messaging discipline. I understand the importance and value of diversity, but diversity is not always the answer in every circumstance, and when it comes to messaging, that is one where this is certainly not the case. When it comes to messaging, cohesion and persistence are the most important things. Whatever our messaging is going to be, it needs to be unified and relentless, not 1000 different messages pulling in different directions.
3. We need to get on the offensive when it comes to messaging. When you're defending your values, they get scrutinized and inevitably "damaged" because no value system is perfect. For almost 50 years the right has attacked Dems with little to no scrutiny of their values, even though they are horrid, because we allow them to always be on the offensive while we're on the defensive. We need to change that dynamic.
4. We're too tolerant/nice/polite of the way the other side acts. "When they go low, we go high" needs to die. The math is really simple: if the other side is allowed to go low and win without repercussions, then they will always be incentivized to go low because our unilateral surrender guarantees them victory. The way to keep them from going low is to show that if they choose to go low, we'll meet them there and crush them even harder. This is how you keep authoritarians in check: appeasement is never the answer.
Judging by how this second term is getting push back especially with the idiot (not savant) Musk playing the new Bill Gates role... The house of cards is collapsing. No need for help from the Democrats who are the same with different extreme appeals.
Now "the revolution will not be televised" makes tons of sense. No matter how much they control social media, it's not that hard for curious people to find nuggets of truth.
The most clearly laid out summary of their plans and actions presented in a cohesive and easily understandable way I have ever read! Yes, it is long but worth every minute. I am sharing this far and wide and begging people to read it even if they have to do so in small segments and to share, share, share!
I knew almost all of the information contained, without all the names and dates, and this pulled together all the disparate info into a cohesive story of what has, and is happening on so many fronts. Bravo! Now let’s help others understand their plan and goals and ban together to run these fascists to the end of the earth!
Thank you so much for taking the time to read it and giving your feedback. It sure is pretty long. I thought about breaking it up into smaller articles, but I think keeping it all together is just better and as you said, people can always read it in parts.
Now that you have published it as a whole maybe consider republishing it in a series? Your outline/ breakdown is already written here so parse it into digestible bites. Most people will not or cannot read and/or comprehend this much information at once(so sad). Then target audiences in small bites. Unfortunately I think that is the only way people absorb information anymore.
Fair, I might do that.
Happy to see the Segments coming out
Excellent. I too am familiar with the players, but not how they fit so seamlessly together....frightening. We dont have billions to oppose them. Just people power!!!
on reclaiming the term "deep state" (from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/02/tulsi-gabbard-trump-john-durham-report)
". . .Some former intelligence insiders find that unsurprising – dismissing the idea as a Trump-inspired fiction. “Trump is lying when he speaks of a ‘deep state’,” said Fulton Armstrong, a retired CIA analyst who served under Democratic and Republican administrations. “But if there were one, it would not be Democrat. The culture of that world is deeply Republican.”. . ."
Controlling discourse through repurposing words has been a hallmark of right-wing propaganda efforts:
woke - came from AAVE in the 50s (https://archive.is/fblM4 https://thedispatch.com/article/the-origins-of-the-term-woke-had/)
CRT - came from black and brown academics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory#History)
cancel culture - arose in Black twitter (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/dec/opinion-black-twitter-shaped-platform-its-future-lies-elsewhere)
All of these terms have been turned against the communities where they originated and against the left in general. The right whines about how the left dominates discourse, but has successfully changed the way all these terms are perceived and used in common discourse.
In the case of CRT, the effort was definitely not organic - it came from an explicit effort by Chris Rufo, captured in this tweet: https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1371541044592996352 (https://archive.is/0Hy2Q) "The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans."
Hanging "deep state" on the right would be a nice piece of poetic justice.
That’s exactly the plan. But one thing I find interesting is how easy it is on the right for someone to decide to make something go viral like CRT or Woke. It only takes one guy like Rufo and bam. On the other hand, on the left, it’s virtually impossible to make that happen. It’s like if someone has a good idea on messaging everyone else gets mad or something that they didn’t come up with the idea and it goes nowhere, or someone else tries to make their own version, etc. It’s very frustrating.
On the right, you can use bots, paid trolls, AI slop, etc. very effectively. Not so much on the left (although the effect is not zero).
A lot of people like to say this is because people on the right are stupid, but I think it has more to do with the psychology of grievance politics - the sense of shared grievance is powerfully unifying and kinda overwhelms and subverts the frontal lobes.
OTOH. . .a friend likes to point out that you can’t win elections without appealing to the left half of the bell curve. And simple, consistent messaging does help there.
And there is the experience of the Macedonian teenagers in Veles: “. . .Trump groups seemed to have hundreds of thousands more members than Clinton groups, which made it simpler to propel an article into virality. (For a week in July, he experimented with fake news extolling Bernie Sanders. “Bernie Sanders supporters are among the smartest people I’ve seen,” he says. “They don’t believe anything. The post must have proof for them to believe it.”). . .“ https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/
I'm not even talking about trying to spread fake information. Sure, people on the left are less prone to fall for misinformation, especially as the claims get more extreme. I'm talking about getting people behind a unified message that has potential for taking control of the narrative. It's like the left sees the right using slogans and go like "we shall never use slogans, lest we become like them" even if that means letting the right completely control the narrative including how the left gets perceived by the general population, leading Trump, a fascist dictator wannabe who's bankrupted virtually every business he has ever run, raped at least one woman (colloquial according to the judge in the E. Jean Carroll case), committed 34 felonies to win his first election and did an insurrection to try to stay in power, to appear better than democrats.
This kind of messaging and narrative ineptitude has me wondering if the rednecks are really the ones to the left of the bell curve and not Dems...
Interesting ideas from Peter Coyote on how to protest in person: https://substack.com/@petercoyote1/note/c-124092006?r=44g26c (obviously, not everybody agrees)
As to how to reach and unify a large number of people. . .I'm mostly outside that loop. Certainly, I follow 50501 and Indivisible, but those have limited reach. It probably requires multiple channels to reach different populations of Democratic and swing voters.
Indeed.
Excellent resource. A true study and accessible reading.
Excellent job! Yes, these people have been well organized since the '80s; but their roots go back to the fifties, when they got the government to change the U.S. motto from "E pluribus unum" to the insipid "In God We Trust." Despite seeing this as a warning, we never did pay attention to the creeping danger within. They plotted this entire scenario while we weren't looking.
You really do need to break this up into separate pieces. It is so comprehensive and well done that it needs to be accessible
Beautiful. When the Dems didn’t codify abortion rights, that was a of the biggest dominoes that allowed the rest of this to happen
Keep up the good work. You are appreciated 👍
Wow! This is the best article I've read in a long time.
It's just in a class by itself. This took a LOT of time and effort.
I became a Paid Subscriber after reading this. Thank you, Lukium.
Thanks for taking the time to read it. It's definitely a long one. And yea, it took a bit to put together. I really appreciate the feedback and thanks for subbing!
https://x.com/SnowdenBishop/status/1820466267658289229?t=8SUMhZlc2gFHvcL2RZdnNg&s=19
George Carlin predicted some of this 30 years ago.
This is a brilliant essay and deserves a wide audience and I will do what I can to bring it to the attention of journalists and social media progressive influencers.
Very good video. Also interestingly, I've chatted with the person that posted it a few times. (SnowdenBishop)
Beautifully organized, clearly written and compellingly framed. Thank you!
Very thorough discussion. I just became a paid subscriber.
Thank you so much for the feedback and subscribing!
I have thought this forever; it has made arguing with RWers impossible because in a way they are correct, they just refuse to see that they are wrong about the culprits
regarding Ailes and Fox - for me, this encapsulates what you need to know about Ailes and Fox:
https://substack.com/@robertpraetorius282272/note/c-141505163
Do you have suggestions on how to fight this? Your analysis rings true to me but I just leave the reading incredibly depressed with no will to fight.
1. We have to build our own infrastructure designed to synergize with its parts, in a way similar to what the right wing has done.
2. We need to get better at messaging discipline. I understand the importance and value of diversity, but diversity is not always the answer in every circumstance, and when it comes to messaging, that is one where this is certainly not the case. When it comes to messaging, cohesion and persistence are the most important things. Whatever our messaging is going to be, it needs to be unified and relentless, not 1000 different messages pulling in different directions.
3. We need to get on the offensive when it comes to messaging. When you're defending your values, they get scrutinized and inevitably "damaged" because no value system is perfect. For almost 50 years the right has attacked Dems with little to no scrutiny of their values, even though they are horrid, because we allow them to always be on the offensive while we're on the defensive. We need to change that dynamic.
4. We're too tolerant/nice/polite of the way the other side acts. "When they go low, we go high" needs to die. The math is really simple: if the other side is allowed to go low and win without repercussions, then they will always be incentivized to go low because our unilateral surrender guarantees them victory. The way to keep them from going low is to show that if they choose to go low, we'll meet them there and crush them even harder. This is how you keep authoritarians in check: appeasement is never the answer.
Judging by how this second term is getting push back especially with the idiot (not savant) Musk playing the new Bill Gates role... The house of cards is collapsing. No need for help from the Democrats who are the same with different extreme appeals.
https://consilienceproject.org/the-end-of-propaganda/
Now "the revolution will not be televised" makes tons of sense. No matter how much they control social media, it's not that hard for curious people to find nuggets of truth.