...the 3 memes we're suggesting to "change the frame."
Notice how Mr. Crockett is immediately involved in a discussion of what to do about election thieves. Emails come from the right complaining about his "extreme" position.
These are the kind of "fights" we need to start.
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so, to the repost...
This is why we are continuing our Declaration of Intent project, in the form of building the
January 6th Coalition. The goal is still to get individual congress critters to declare their intent to object to invalid electors. Thereby putting local/state people on notice.
The reason for using January 6th as a rallying point is that it is the day that the People are represented
in their sovereign capacity.
More specifically, we are suggesting 3 themes/frames/memes to be interjected into any and all election reform discussions. They are intended to change people's thinking about elections in general. (Not least of which, the real target, our own thinking on the left.)
If we can rehabilitate
how people think about elections, the rest will take care of itself. And quickly.
1st - An election is a survey, not a contest.Just like the census, an election tries to measure an objective reality: the will of the electorate. There's no reason (maybe cost) why we couldn't conduct them in the same way, with bonded agents going door-to-door collecting private ballots from voters.
The point(of view) being made(changed) is that an election is about the voters (not votes - ever). Candidates, campaigns, Parties, officials, equipment manufacturers, are all nearly-irrelevant. There is only one principle/interested-party/owner and that is the electorate as a whole.
2nd - It's the "ERRR," stupid!Count every vote! --
ERRR!!! -- Count every vote! --
ERRR!!!Forgive my stupid illustration, but see how easily we can be nudged away from our most powerful moral position and into their pre-gamed arena of discussing only vote-counts, ballots, chads, etc...
(Note: This in itself is a form of Stalinist propaganda --
Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. -- Josef Stalin)
This is not simply a bolstering of the first meme (it may seem so, but only because your mind doesn't need much changing). We must always speak of voters, and never votes, because unless we do so "religiously" such things as suppression become "separate issues." We can't allow this.
Victims of poll-tax-lines and "missing" registrations are voters. With the same right to be "surveyed" as everyone else. They did their part. The burden must be on the system to "count" them, even at high cost, even if it delays a result.
3rd - Election manipulation is a capital crime.(Ok, ok, stop screaming. The sentence can be commuted, all right?)
Yes, this is extreme. Even a bit looney. But it gets your attention, right? That's the power. That and the fact that it's a simple, completely moral proposal.
Election theft is far worse than cop-killing. Worse than 9/11 or any incident of terrorism. It is literally High Treason.
It undermines the only moral principle on which the nation was founded and continues (in theory) to rest. That gov't power can only be derived from the consent of the governed.
So what's so extreme? The truth is that we've been extremely lax in defending our most important of rights. We need to be "born again" as Fundamentalist Americans. That's the way to curb fascism.
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