I got political again today, at least on a theoretical level.
Here is how I would tackle Trump’s mayhem :
Of course, it’s not really a plan so much as the vague outline of one. That’s why it’s so short on specifics. It’s really just me expressing what I think needs to be done. details to be filled in later.
And it’s possible that I could lead this theoretical all encompassing anti-Trump movement. I have the oratory and organizational skills and I certainly have enough time on my hands. I could put all my passion and articulacy into a call to action and a flag, a symbol of some sort, for people to rally around.
I know, I would call it EAT, for Everybody Against Trump [1]. And it would be the umbrella organization for absolutely everybody who wants to stop Trump, impeach him, throw him out of office, and put him in jail.
It doesn’t matter what else you believe or where you are on the political spectrum or where you’re from or literally anything else.
All that matters is that you want to work in a directed and concentrated and practical way toward Trump’s political demise.
I would be willing to give it a very loose sort of military structure. It would be an army in the same sense that the Salvation Army is an army. The idea is of a tightly coordinated and highly focused force with a practical and easily understood goal that anybody can join if they are willing to accept the structure of it all.
There might even be a boot camp of sorts where people learn things like media skills, basic military style discipline (chain of command et al), and even get cool uniforms.
But obviously nobody will be crawling through mud on their belly while a psychotic drill sergeant screams in their ear.
Not even if you’re really into that kind of thing.
Hopefully this would scare the crap out of the right wingers. It would be their worst nightmare come to life : liberals actually getting their shit together to get things done.
LIke they do all the time, only with the advantage that we’re not dumb, evil, or crazy.
Properly organized, this would give us an unbeatable edge.
So clearly I have the necessary level of vision for the job. I could design and organize this little save America army of mine, and I might even make a decent leader of it as long as my role is mostly in the inspiration and vision department.
I am not the one for the fine details of strategy. And I would definitely need someone with a far more organized and disciplined mind than mine to keep it all functioning as a whole on a day to day basis.
I’m more of a big picture guy.
Imagine how Fox News would react to footage of a vociferously left wing organization in military-ish uniforms lined up in ranks and listening attentively while a leader like me speaks stirringly about action and protest and plans to make things better.
Fox News would go purple with apoplexy. I’d love every second of it.
Maybe it would even make a few of them realize just how stupid all their left wing conspiracy talk has been now that they see the real thing.
Except it wouldn’t be a conspiracy. It would be out front, loud and proud, fighting the good fight for all that is good and just and right in the world.
Sounds good. Think I’ll sign up.
More after the break.
The little things
I am not, by nature, detail oriented.
Like I said earlier in this post, I am a big picture kind of guy. And the world needs people like me. We’re the ones with the vision and the imagination to see the dangers coming so we can avoid them and to dream up band news solutions to old problems that others think can’t be solved.
Of course, first we have to get people to listen to us.
For as long as I can remember, I have identified strongly with the role of the soothsayer. I can easily imagine myself as some hunched over figure from Greek mythology wandering through the agora proclaiming that I have seen the future and warning people of their impending doom.
In my case, it would be based on science and knowledge and not my claiming to hear the gods speak to me in my dreams, but it’s basically the same thing.
And I remember how upset I was by the story of Cassandra, whom the gods cursed to know the future but never be believed.
That hits way too close to home. It’s the fate of all visionaries like myself to be stuck with the task of having to talk the rest of the herd into seeing what you see. Your starting position will always be one of being a lone nut trying to talk to people about things they cannot see for themselves.
If they could see it themselves, they wouldn’t need you.
That’s why I am jealous of the prophets in societies where they believe in the power of mystic seers and have a role and a reverence for them.
They just proclaim their visions and leave the rest to the people, no convincing needed.
“Because the Great Prophet said so!” sounds like a way easier sell that trying to explain to illiterate ignorant farmers why it is better to milk the cow than to eat it.
But speaking of Cassandra, I like to imagine her in a modern day bar. day drinking. when a story comes on the news about some upcoming event and she just laughs and shakes her head.
And when one of her fellow barflies asks her what’s gotten into her, she just laughs again as she stands up and pays her tab.
And on the way out of the bar, she stops, turns to the room, and says :
“I’d tell you… but you wouldn’t believe me. ”
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.