Use Your Voice & Stop The Far Right In Its Tracks

Feminists learned during the TERF WARS that moving a discourse can change the whole trajectory of a movement. It creates the context in which a moment can WIN.

Time to do it again. The US is not up against a man, a party, but a tyranny that has always nestled in the soul of the American nation. Time to excise it.

But women & minoritized people everywhere are facing these same forces. These moves apply no matter the particular stripe of your tyrant.

Begin with lashings of Epstein (or some other unforgivable act). Focus on the victims, their goodness, the way they were ignored, women and men both. Make it impossible to support Trump or his supporters – Remove their identity as protectors.

In a tyranny, the tyrant needs his (it's usually a he) charisma even more than his military. The leader/the ideal image/endoideal, must be given public recognition and acceptance to stay in power, to keep the glamour going.

Delegitimize at every turn. The very speaking of Trump as a legit leader is Compliance, like Columbia University or Paramount Media, who went even beyond demands. The tyrant and the collaborators and their self-reinforcing language must be disrupted at every turn. Comedians and public critics are dangerous because most of a tyrant’s power is their glamour, their charisma + all the people around them who affirm and amplify that glamour (their reflectors). This focus solidifies their power far more than their use of force.

• The Epstein problem is essential to take down Trump and his admin who are all now implicated in the cover-up.
• It removes the empathy and admiration MAGA feel for him. The wedge between him and his faithful is everything!
• Their doubt is the destabilizing factor for him.
• Uplift the other/negative image - the victims and everyone QAnon lied to about the real sex trafficking rings and predators.

Tyrants need their bad others even more than large social systems like nations because they need a place to lay blame and a target for the sadism they gin up in their followers

Not only women/minoritzed people are caught up in the Sado-Ritual, now it’s everyone. The Dictatorship/Oligarchy is Patriarchy/Male Supremacy now negating/othering/subjugating all of us in their sado-rituals.

Immigrants If every story is another scene of terror, that keeps the sadists and the tyrant happy and thirsting for more.

Contributing to funds that help vulnerable immigrants stay home and out of ICE’s sight, praising the essential work immigrants do in the country, arguments for their improved treatment, floods of stories about their creativity and contribution and kindness.

Women QAnon was a distraction from Epstein the first time around. Anonymous #OpDeathEaters was working to take down the global trafficking and exploitation ring of which JE and GM were only a node.

RadMatFems are perfectly equipped to be moving the discourse in these directions.

Heather Marsh from How To Dismantle A Dictatorship (HTDAD)

Take control of the propaganda surrounding the dictator in the following ways:

Do not grant them an identity as the legitimate ruler.

Give them a negative image identity that assigns guilt. (Make them the Other)

Identify yourselves as the true representatives of the state and its people.

Depict them as the primary enemy of the people.

destiny, creation or persecution.
Focus on their crimes and illegitimacy.

Create and widely distribute your own history of the dictator and their endogroup.

Reject any attempt to conflate the regime with the will of the people.

Disrupt any event or institution where they appear in public as your representative, including your embassies.

And, like the comedians or critics:

Identify yourselves as the true representatives of the endogroup (America).

Identify the dictatorship as a fraud and an usurper.

And do not take your foot off the gas.

We are the people, we are the US. And this shredding of our constitutional and social contracts is illegitimate, weakens the country in every way, and is embarrassing. — These people don’t care how many people they harm. They don’t have a conscience or scruple among them. — But they are vain, and they can be crippled through their egos by the removal of admiration AND active scorn. — The scorn just plays into their sense of being the righteous outsider victims.

Heather Marsh’s HTDAD is a guide to taking our world back from these forces, not just the leaders, but the sadist social forces shaping this tyranny. Once there we do that, can build.

A tyrant is not a man. He is a tyranny made of his followers/reflectors, HM highlights how he is a system. He is a condition. And RadMatFem is meant for changing conditions. The thing we face has always been at the heart of the American soul because it is the soul of patriarchy.

Chris Hedges on American Sadism. It's all gold and fire. The Q&A is especially enlightening.