we have to begin with mass communications.
Then, once you have established a base, you can move on to controlling the numbers.
Then we find some leaders.
We can learn from the Trumpling, who had no real interest in the product, in policy in details or even goals; he was all about selling, mostly himself.
But you need that exposure. In a democracy, you have to have people know your name and now, your face and voice. You cannot run on ideas. You need to be sold.
Then the numbers: The thing about a true authoritarian state is they don't have any meaningful elections, but in America, we have actually counted votes for most of our history, even if those votes have been manipulated so the rich and powerful can retain control, still those manipulations have been, on occasion, overwhelmed.
After Andrew Jackson lost an election because it got thrown to the House of Representatives where a "corrupt bargain" could be made, we started electing Presidents in a more, if not completely, democratic way, which meant electors were elected by the people. Still no popular election of the President to this day, but closer to democracy, which many politicos of the early 19th century loathed and disparaged.
But that means, if large numbers of people are eligible to vote, you have to reach large numbers.
Which takes not just money, but planning.
I would start with PBS and CNN and I would give two anchors maximal exposure, and allow them to bring out the news on both channels. These would be Francine Lacqua, currently with Bloomberg News and Ky Ryssdahl, currently on NPR's Marketplace.
Both of these people were brought up during their formative years in the US and speak perfect English but they also have deep and abiding European connections.
Lacqua's father is Italian, which she speaks, but she did grammar school through high school in Washington, DC (L'Ecole Rochambeau, a French speaking school) then on to England and France for university. She speaks French, English, Italian and she is that rare Grace Kelly cool which leaves the viewer hungering for more.
Ky Ryssdahl has Danish/American breeding and is a warmer, but still hard edge presence and he can take apart a sleazy politico in a genial manner so calmly the politico hardly realizes he's been exposed.
Once you have this in place, you can draw folks from Fox News, and the commercial networks and then, maybe elect enough Dems to pack the Supreme Court and launch an assault on the Electoral College. Remember, in the 20th and 21st century the EC has given us two minority Presidents, one worse than the first.
That's the plan. Go do it.
Then, once you have established a base, you can move on to controlling the numbers.
Then we find some leaders.
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We can learn from the Trumpling, who had no real interest in the product, in policy in details or even goals; he was all about selling, mostly himself.
But you need that exposure. In a democracy, you have to have people know your name and now, your face and voice. You cannot run on ideas. You need to be sold.
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| He Knows How to Sell |
Then the numbers: The thing about a true authoritarian state is they don't have any meaningful elections, but in America, we have actually counted votes for most of our history, even if those votes have been manipulated so the rich and powerful can retain control, still those manipulations have been, on occasion, overwhelmed.
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After Andrew Jackson lost an election because it got thrown to the House of Representatives where a "corrupt bargain" could be made, we started electing Presidents in a more, if not completely, democratic way, which meant electors were elected by the people. Still no popular election of the President to this day, but closer to democracy, which many politicos of the early 19th century loathed and disparaged.
But that means, if large numbers of people are eligible to vote, you have to reach large numbers.
Which takes not just money, but planning.
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| Francine Lacqua |
I would start with PBS and CNN and I would give two anchors maximal exposure, and allow them to bring out the news on both channels. These would be Francine Lacqua, currently with Bloomberg News and Ky Ryssdahl, currently on NPR's Marketplace.
Both of these people were brought up during their formative years in the US and speak perfect English but they also have deep and abiding European connections.
Lacqua's father is Italian, which she speaks, but she did grammar school through high school in Washington, DC (L'Ecole Rochambeau, a French speaking school) then on to England and France for university. She speaks French, English, Italian and she is that rare Grace Kelly cool which leaves the viewer hungering for more.
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| Ky Ryssdahl |
Ky Ryssdahl has Danish/American breeding and is a warmer, but still hard edge presence and he can take apart a sleazy politico in a genial manner so calmly the politico hardly realizes he's been exposed.
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| This is Them |
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| Fox Newsreader |
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| This is Us: She can blow those hot pink air heads away |
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