STOP. LETTING. THEM. DISTRACT. US. [View all]

[Initech]

The presidential election was stolen from us - fact. We got steamrolled in the Congressional and gubernatorial races - fact. But rather than spend the next two years drowning in our beers and tears trying to figure out where it went wrong - which is what is happening now, we should start going after these rat bastards hard. We are letting them frame the narrative as to why we lost, and that keeps us distracted, which keeps us fighting with each other, which ensures they will keep winning elections. It's the shit cycle that we've gone through since Reagan.

Want to stop that from happening again? What we need to do is get fucking organized with a clear narrative, a clear direction, and a clear mission statement. And that mission statement should be - we don't want another Trump. We don't want to have to waste time figuring out that our election was hacked by a foreign entity, and they're about to do it again. What we have to do is stop this shit from happening.

So the answer is simple: DON'T. LET. THEM. FRAME. THE. NARRATIVE. We need to get our people out there and running at literally every level of government. And I mean every - even if it's something like a city comptroller's office or a school board election. We need to start flipping every office we can't get now, then we can start flipping districts, then we can start flipping states. Did you see that movie "Moneyball"? In that movie, Billy Beane wants to win, and he wants to win at every level. It doesn't matter if their shortstop isn't a household name - what matters is that he plays where it counts. That's how they did it in that movie - little gains first, then big ones. But we can't let them get to us by making us fight over Bernie or Hillary, pro choice or anti choice, and so on and so forth. That's how they win.

These little fights like this are nothing more than gigantic distractions. That's what the GOP does best - they keep us distracted by making us fight over bullshit (which is called "framing the narrative&quot , and then they go and win elections everywhere. Regardless of whether we win or lose these elections. Any pick ups are pick ups. Any fights put up are fights put up. They need to be held accountable for what they've done to this country, and they need to be held accountable now. We can't afford another distraction for another two years and let Putin steal the 2018 elections. Do we want to stop Fox News or not? Do we want to stop the GOP bullies from steamrolling us or not? Do we want mouthpieces like SE Cupp and Ann Coulter trashing us on even our own talk shows and radio programs? Hell no! I want to kick Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan to the curb. I want to see the Koch Brothers and Trump hauled off in handcuffs. I want to see the dismantling of the Heritage Foundation and the NRA. I want to see Sam Brownback and Scott Walker do the jail time they so richly deserve. We need to stop the infighting and go after the big boss. That should be our mission from here on out.