Timothy Birdnow

Mu question; how do we know these photos AREN'T from 2020 rather than from 2026? How do we know this "Joe Wrote" Bolshevik didn't just take old photos to show how much "excitement" was in the Democratic Socialist movement?

Yes, I know that many on the Left wear masks even now to show their allegiance. But this many?

I want to say this right now about the rising Democratic Socialists; I do not think they are an organic movement but rather an astroturfed movement, likely funded by George Sros and these other Billionaire-socialists. I further believe they are only winning in extreme leftist enclaves - mostly it's out with the old socialit and in with the new. The media is blowing these folks up beyond their natural state. I suspect we'll see them collapse on election day, and if so we won't hear a whole lot about it - the media will change the subject and even the Conservative media will forget. And of those who win (and a lot of them will as they are in radical leftist districts) the media will proclaim the era of MAGA over and the rise of the new Socialism.

But it will be a Potemkin Village, a series of facades.

I hope so at least; if I'm wrong we are in bigger trouble than I feared, and I'm a known paranoid, or at least a confirmed pessimist.

Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese military strategist, said deception is the essence of warare. He's right and it has always been so from the first time a human being took down an antelope. The Left understands this more than the Right (who is constrained by Judeo-Christian morality) and they have always deceived the public. That is why they go into journalism and education - they know they need to control the dissemination of information. Right now they need to reinvigorate their left, which is feeling quite defeated to learn the public doesn't love them but loves that SOB Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, and to reinvigorate the Let they need to create the facade that suggests they are winning. This whole rising DSA is necessary to put new life into their moribund cause.

So they won a few non-competitive battles and proclaim this as victory on general principles and are hoping this will start momentum. It only works, of course, because the mainstream media is in the tank for them. But then this fact has twisted and distorted the political landscape (and cultural) for decades now.

Sadly a lot of people on our side will believe this and defeatism will spread through the ranks. That too is the intended goal.

We've watched as the media has taken great pains to split the MAGA movement. They basically have seduced people like Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Green with acceptance if they betray MAGA and by and large have succeeded. This splits our movement as it was intended to do.

Now they need to gin up the Left. This is phase II. It's working psychologically and our side is becoming dispirited.

Will it work? Maybe. Certainly a lot of people are now fretting about the "rising Democratic Socialism" (there isn't any such thing - socialism by it's very nature is imposed by those with guns and violates human nature.) But it will probably fail long term. That's not the goal; the goal is to win in the short term and thus end the MAGA revolution. They did something similar to end the Tea Party (you may remember the rise of Nancy Pelosi coincided with the decline of the Tea Party and she made a sharp left turn from the Clinton era's "triangulation".)

Anyone remember the Coffee Party? It was the Left's answer to the Tea Party and it failed because it was pure astroturf. But the Tea Party failed in the end because all the Coffee Party was doing was providing an alternative to the TP and the TP was then split from within in much the same way the media is trying to split MAGA now.

If nothing else this will clear away the old brush and make way for the new. It's a "rebuilding year" to use a sports metaphor.

There is always a danger in going too far and souring the public, of course, but what this does is makes the rest of the Democrats seem reasonable by comparison and thus more appealing to the average voters than they would otherwise have been.

At any rate that's my 2c worth on that.

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