The GOP’s plan to take the country and kill our way of government is an old plan and it has worked in Cuba, it even worked for the U.S. to win its independence from England. China also used this plan by starting in the hills and staying away from the big cities until the leaders had a solid base in the country.
The GOP started its plotting in the early 1980s. They wanted to win all local governmental seats, like water and fire boards, school boards of trustees, city councils, county supervisors and all law enforcement command elections. They stayed in small towns and got all GOP people elected.
Then they got elected to state positions and went after the unions by getting right to work laws passed. Every state that has implemented right to work laws has seen the standard of living for its people decline.
The GOP used to not talk much about this plan, but now they are public about it and flaunt their successes. In a Shasta County, a small county in northern California, they are now threatening to forcibly remove people that they claim are oppressing them. They are saying that you change things you don’t like by using violent overthrow and by rallying their troops to take up arms, telling them to stock up on food, creating military-style bases, making compounds and getting ready to fight, and, yes, they are prepared to do just that.
A military veteran named Zapata, who has the Red White and Blueprint website, says it’s our goal to take back the country one community at a time, teaching uninformed people how to take action in their areas. They have also partnered up with the Proud Boys. Also, there is a very large church who supports this takeover and also support Trump and his attempts to overturn the election results. They are poor losers who don’t like being losers.
These people say there will be blood in the streets if they don’t get their way. These are the same people who are wanting to recall three of Shasta’s board of supervisors and California’s governor. They are also wanting their people to monitor all the places where there are people casting their votes so they can know how you voted.
This is a fight for our democracy and it’s not a drill.
Yes, they are coming for us. Workers need to have one another’s backs because no one else will. Neither the broader labor movement nor the Democratic party are prepared to meet the urgency of this moment. So it’s going to fall upon the rest of us to mount a real resistance against Trump’s authoritarian takeover. We’re going to have to get our hands dirty. I don’t care if you have a good, well-paying union job and you are in the middle class now—if you see a worker being dragged out of his workplace regardless of how skilled the job and potentially taken to another country, you should be ready to be there for that worker. When I.C.E. shows up, gather around and shame them into leaving. It has worked in other places. America is sleep walking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anyone out there who is a member of a labor union that is safe—at this point— and doesn’t think this applies to them. Understand that they just haven’t gotten to you yet. They’re coming for all of us. There are ...
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